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R. A. Konoplya

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arXiv2007

Gravitational spectrum of black holes in the Einstein-Aether theory

Evolution of gravitational perturbations, both in time and frequency domains, is considered for a spherically symmetric black hole in the non-reduced Einstein-Aether theory. It is shown that real oscillation frequency and damping rate are larger for the Einstein-Aether black hole than for the Schwarzschild black hole. This may provide an opportunity to observe aether in the forthcoming experiments with new generation of gravitational antennas.

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arXiv2006

Particle motion around magnetized black holes: Preston-Poisson space-time

We analyze motion of massless and massive particles around black holes immersed in an asymptotically uniform magnetic field and surrounded by some mechanical structure, which provides the magnetic field. The space-time is described by Preston-Poisson metric, which is the generalization of the well-known Ernst metric with a new parameter, tidal force, characterizing the surrounding structure. The Hamilton-Jacobi equations allow separation of variables in the equatorial plane. The presence of tidal force from surroundings considerably changes parameters of the test particle motion: it increases the radius of circular orbits of particles, increases the binding energy of massive particles going from a given circular orbits to the innermost stable orbit near black hole. In addition, it increases the distance of minimal approach, time delay and bending angle for a ray of light propagating near black hole.

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arXiv2006

Magnetized black hole as a gravitational lens

We use the Ernst-Schwarzschild solution for a black hole immersed in a uniform magnetic field to estimate corrections to the bending angle and time delay due-to presence of weak magnetic fields in galaxies and between galaxies, and also due-to influence of strong magnetic field near supermassive black holes. The magnetic field creates a kind of confinement in space, that leads to increasing of the bending angle and time delay for a ray of light propagating in the equatorial plane.

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arXiv2006

Perturbations and quasi-normal modes of black holes in Einstein-Aether theory

We develop a new method for calculation of quasi-normal modes of black holes, when the effective potential, which governs black hole perturbations, is known only numerically in some region near the black hole. This method can be applied to perturbations of a wide class of numerical black hole solutions. We apply it to the black holes in the Einstein-Aether theory, a theory where general relativity is coupled to a unit time-like vector field, in order to observe local Lorentz symmetry violation. We found that in the non-reduced Einstein-Aether theory, real oscillation frequency and damping rate of quasi-normal modes are larger than those of Schwarzschild black holes in the Einstein theory.

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arXiv2006

Quasi-Normal Modes of Brane-Localised Standard Model Fields II: Kerr Black Holes

This paper presents a comprehensive study of the fundamental quasinormal modes of all Standard Model fields propagating on a brane embedded in a higher-dimensional rotating black hole spacetime. The equations of motion for fields with spin $s=0, 1/2$ and 1 propagating in the induced-on-the-brane background are solved numerically, and the dependence of their QN spectra on the black hole angular momentum and dimensionality of spacetime is investigated. It is found that the brane-localised field perturbations are longer-lived when the higher-dimensional black hole rotates faster, while an increase in the number of transverse-to-the-brane dimensions reduces their lifetime. Finally, the quality factor $Q$, that determines the best oscillator among the different field perturbations, is investigated and found to depend on properties of both the particular field studied (spin, multipole numbers) and the gravitational background (dimensionality, black hole angular momentum number).

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arXiv2006

Stability and quasinormal modes of the massive scalar field around Kerr black holes

We find quasinormal spectrum of the massive scalar field in the background of the Kerr black holes. We show that all found modes are damped under the quasinormal modes boundary conditions when $μM$ is not large, thereby implying stability of the massive scalar field. This complements the region of stability determined by the Beyer inequality for large masses of the field. We show that, similar to the case of a non-rotating black holes, the massive term of the scalar field does not contribute in the regime of high damping. Thereby, the high damping asymptotic should be the same as for the massless scalar field.

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arXiv2006

Massive vector field perturbations in the Schwarzschild background: stability and quasinormal spectrum

We consider the perturbations of the massive vector field around Schwarzschild black hole, (generally, with non-vanishing $Λ$ - term). The monopole massive vector perturbation equations can be reduced to a single wave-like equation. We have proved the stability against these perturbations and investigated the quasinormal spectrum. The quasinormal behaviour for Schwarzschild black hole is quite unexpected: the fundamental mode and all higher overtones shows totally different dependence on the mass of the field $m$: as $m$ is increasing, the damping rate of the fundamental mode is decreasing, what results in appearing of the infinitely long living modes, while, on contrary, damping rate of all higher overtones are increasing, and their real oscillation frequencies gradually go to tiny values. Thereby, for all higher overtones, almost non-oscillatory, damping modes can exist. In the limit of asymptotically high damping, $Re ω$ goes to $ln3/(8 πM)$, while imaginary part shows equidistant behaviour with spacing $Im ω_{n+1}- Im ω_{n}=i/4M$. In addition, we have found quasinormal spectrum of massive vector field for Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter black hole.

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arXiv2006

Quasi-Normal Modes of Brane-Localised Standard Model Fields

We present here a detailed study of the quasi-normal spectrum of brane-localised Standard Model fields in the vicinity of D-dimensional black-holes. A variety of such backgrounds (Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom and Schwarzszchild-(Anti) de Sitter) are investigated. The dependence of the quasi-normal spectra on the dimensionality D, spin of the field s, and multipole number l is analyzed. Analytical formulae are obtained for a number of limiting cases: in the limit of large multipole number for Schwarzschild, Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Reissner-Nordstrom black holes, in the extremal limit of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole, and in the limit of small horizon radius in the case of Schwarzschild-Anti de Sitter black holes. We show that an increase in the number of hidden, extra dimensions results in the faster damping of all fields living on the brane, and that the localization of fields on a brane affects the QN spectrum in a number of additional ways, both direct and indirect.

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arXiv2005

Scalar field evolution in Gauss-Bonnet black holes

It is presented a thorough analysis of scalar perturbations in the background of Gauss-Bonnet, Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter and Gauss-Bonnet-anti-de Sitter black hole spacetimes. The perturbations are considered both in frequency and time domain. The dependence of the scalar field evolution on the values of the cosmological constant $Λ$ and the Gauss-Bonnet coupling $α$ is investigated. For Gauss-Bonnet and Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter black holes, at asymptotically late times either power-law or exponential tails dominate, while for Gauss-Bonnet-anti-de Sitter black hole, the quasinormal modes govern the scalar field decay at all times. The power-law tails at asymptotically late times for odd-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet black holes does not depend on $α$, even though the black hole metric contains $α$ as a new parameter. The corrections to quasinormal spectrum due to Gauss-Bonnet coupling is not small and should not be neglected. For the limit of near extremal value of the (positive) cosmological constant and pure de Sitter and anti-de Sitter modes in Gauss-Bonnet gravity we have found analytical expressions.

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arXiv2005

The ringing wormholes

We investigate the response of the traversable wormholes to the external perturbations through finding their characteristic frequencies and time-domain profiles. The considered solution describes traversable wormholes between the branes in the two brane Randall-Sundrum model and was previously found within Einstein gravity with a conformally coupled scalar field. The evolution of perturbations of a wormhole is similar to that of a black hole and represents damped oscillations (ringing) at intermediately late times, which are suppressed by power law tails (proportional to t^{-2} for monopole perturbations) at asymptotically late times.

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arXiv2005

Scalar field perturbations of the Schwarzschild black hole in the Gödel Universe

We investigate the scalar field perturbations of the 4+1-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a Gödel Universe, described by the Gimon-Hashimoto solution.This may model the influence of the possible rotation of the Universe upon the radiative processes near a black hole. In the regime when the scale parameter $j$ of the Gödel background is small, the oscillation frequency is linearly decreasing with $j$, while the damping time is increasing. The quasinormal modes are damping, implying stability of the Schwarzschild-Gödel space-time against scalar field perturbations. The approximate analytical formula for large multipole numbers is found.

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arXiv2005

Decay of massive scalar field in a Schwarzschild background

The decay of massive scalar field in the Schwarzschild black hole background is investigated here by consideration its quasinormal spectrum. It has been proved that the so-called $quasi-resonant$ modes, which are arbitrary long living (purely real) modes, can exist only if the effective potential is not zero at least at one of the boundaries of the $R$-region. We have observed that the quasinormal spectrum exists for all field masses and proved both analytically and numerically that when $n \to \infty$ the real part of the frequencies approaches the same asymptotical value ($\ln3/(8πM)$) as in the case of the massless field.

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arXiv2005

High overtones of Dirac perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole

Using the Frobenius method, we find high overtones of the Dirac quasinormal spectrum for the Schwarzschild black hole. At high overtones, the spacing for imaginary part of $ω_{n}$ is equidistant and equals to $\Im{ω_{n+1}}-\Im{ω_{n}} =i/8M$, ($M$ is the black hole mass), which is twice less than that for fields of integer spin. At high overtones, the real part of $ω_{n}$ goes to zero. This supports the suggestion that the expected correspondence between quasinormal modes and Barbero-Immirzi parameter in Loop Quantum Gravity is just a numerical coincidence.

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arXiv2004

High overtones of Schwarzschild-de-Sitter quasinormal spectrum

We find the high overtones of gravitational and electromagnetic quasinormal spectrum of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole. The calculations show that the real parts of the electromagnetic modes asymptotically approach zero. The gravitational modes show more peculiar behavior at large $n$: the real part oscillates as a function of imaginary even for very high overtones and these oscillations settles to some "profile" which just repeats itself with further increasing of the overtone number $n$. This lets us judge that $Re ω$ is not a constant as $n \to \infty$ but rather some oscillating function. The spacing for imaginary part $ Im ω_{n+1}-Im ω_{n}$ for both gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations at high $n$ oscillates as a function of $n$ around the value $k_{e}$, where $k_{e}$ is the surface gravity. In addition we find the lower QN modes for which the values obtained with numerical methods are in a very good agreement with those obtained through the 6th order WKB technique.

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arXiv2004

Influence of the back reaction of the Hawking radiation upon black hole quasinormal modes

We consider the BTZ black hole surrounded by the conformal scalar field. Within general relativity, the resonant \emph{quasinormal} (QN) modes dominate in the response of a black hole to external perturbations. At the same time, the metric of an evaporating black hole is affected by the Hawking radiation. We estimate the shift in the quasinormal spectrum of the BTZ black hole stipulated by the back reaction of the Hawking radiation. For the case of the 2+1 dimensional black hole the corrected (by $\sim \hbar$) metric is an \emph{exact} solution [C.Martines, J.Zanelli (1997)]. In addition, in this case quantum corrections come only from matter fields and no from graviton loops, that is, one can solve the problem of influence of the back reaction upon the QN ringing self-consistently. The dominant contribution to the corrections to the QNMs is simply a shift of $ω^{2}$ proportional to $-(\fracΛ{M})^{3/2} (4 L^{2} +M) \hbar$. It is negligible for large black holes but essential for small ones, giving rise to considerable increasing of the quality factor. Thus, the small evaporating black hole is expected to be much better oscillator than a large one.

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arXiv2003

Gravitational quasinormal radiation of higher-dimensional black holes

We find the gravitational resonance (quasinormal) modes of the higher dimensional Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstrem black holes. The effect on the quasinormal behavior due to the presence of the $λ$ term is investigated. The QN spectrum is totally different for different signs of $λ$. In more than four dimensions there excited three types of gravitational modes: scalar, vector, and tensor. They produce three different quasinormal spectra, thus the isospectrality between scalar and vector perturbations, which takes place for D=4 Schwarzschild and Schwarzschild-de-Sitter black holes, is broken in higher dimensions. That is the scalar-type gravitational perturbations, connected with deformations of the black hole horizon, which damp most slowly and therefore dominate during late time of the black hole ringing.

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arXiv2003

Small Perturbations in General Relativity: Tensor Harmonics of Arbitrary Symmetry

We develop a method for constructing of the basic functions with witch to expand small perturbations of space-time in General Relativity. The method allows to obtain the tensor harmonics for perturbations of the background space-time admitting an arbitrary group of isometry, and to split the linearized Einstein equations into the irreducible combinations. The essential point of the work is the construction of the generalized Casimir operator for the underlying group, which is defined not only on vector but also on tensor fields. It is used to construct the basic functions for spaces of tensor representations of the background metric's group of isometry. The method, being general, is applied here to construction of the basic functions for the case of the three-parameter group of isometry G_3 acting on the two-dimensional non-isotropic surface of transitivity. As quick illustrations of the method we consider the well-known particular cases: cylindrical harmonic for the flat space-time, and Regge-Wheller spherical harmonics for the Schwarzschild metric.

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arXiv2002

Massive charged scalar field in a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole background: quasinormal ringing

We compute characteristic (quasinormal) frequencies corresponding to decay of a massive charged scalar field in a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole background. It proves that, contrary to the behavior at very late times, at the stage of quasinormal ringing the neutral perturbations will damp slower than the charged ones. In the limit of the extremal black hole the damping rate of charged and neutral perturbations coincides. Possible connection of this with the critical collapse in a massive scalar electrodynamics is discussed.

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