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    Quasinormal Modes of Dirty Black Holes

    P. T. Leung1, Y. T. Liu1, W.-M. Suen1,2, C. Y. Tam1, and K. Young1

    • 1Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    • 2McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130

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    Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2894 – Published 14 April, 1997

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2894

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    Quasinormal mode (QNM) gravitational radiation from black holes is expected to be observed in a few years. A perturbative formula is derived for the shifts in both the real and the imaginary part of the QNM frequencies away from those of an idealized isolated black hole. The formulation provides a tool for understanding how the astrophysical environment surrounding a black hole, e.g., a massive accretion disk, affects the QNM spectrum of gravitational waves. We show, in a simple model, that the perturbed QNM spectrum can have interesting features.

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    Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2894– Published 14 April, 1997
    • Received 24 January 1997

    © 1997 American Physical Society

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