New generic ringdown frequencies at the birth of a Kerr black hole

Creators: Zimmerman, Aaron; Chen, Yanbei

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We discuss a new ringdown frequency mode for vacuum perturbations of the Kerr black hole. We evolve initial data for the vacuum radial Teukolsky equation using a near horizon approximation and find a frequency mode analogous to that found in a recent study of radiation generated by a plunging particle close to the Kerr horizon. We discuss our results in the context of that study. We also explore the utility of this mode by fitting a numerical waveform with a combination of the usual quasinormal modes and the new oscillation frequency.

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© 2011 American Physical Society. Received 3 June 2011; published 6 October 2011. We gratefully thank E. Berti for providing tables of QNM values and also for valuable discussions about the counterrotating QNMs of the Kerr black hole. We thank Jeandrew Brink, Jim Isenberg, David Nichols, and Kip Thorne for useful discussions. A. Z. would also like to thank the National Institute for Theoretical Physics of South Africa for hosting him during the completion of this work. This work was supported by NSF Grants No. PHY-0601459, No. PHY-0653653, No. PHY-1068881, CAREER Grant No. PHY-0956189, the David and Barbara Groce Startup Fund at Caltech, and the Brinson Foundation.

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