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Nonlinear Effects in Black Hole Ringdown

Cheung MH, Baibhav V, Berti E, Cardoso V, Carullo G, Cotesta R, Del Pozzo W, Duque F et al.

Physical review letters, 2023

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Abstract

We report evidence for nonlinear modes in the ringdown stage of the gravitational waveform produced by the merger of two comparable-mass black holes. We consider both the coalescence of black hole binaries in quasicircular orbits and high-energy, head-on black hole collisions. The presence of nonlinear modes in the numerical simulations confirms that general-relativistic nonlinearities are important and must be considered in gravitational-wave data analysis.

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