Slowly Decaying Ringdown of a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole: Probing the No-Hair Theorem by Small Mass-Ratio Mergers with LISA [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14049


The detectability of multiple quasi-normal (QN) modes, including overtones and higher harmonics, with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is investigated by computing the gravitational wave (GW) signal induced by an intermediate or extreme mass ratio merger involving a supermassive black hole (SMBH). We confirm that the ringdown of rapidly spinning black holes are long-lived, and higher harmonics of the ringdown are significantly excited for mergers of small mass ratios. We demonstrate that the observation of GWs from rapidly rotating SMBHs has a significant advantage for detecting multiple QN modes and testing the no-hair theorem of black holes with high accuracy.

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N. Oshita and D. Tsuna
Wed, 26 Oct 22
49/73

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures