Beyond black hole spectroscopy: Quasinormal mode contamination by massless scalars

arXiv:2607.08619 · gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, hep-th · Submitted 2026-07-09 · Read on arXiv

Miguel Yulo Asuncion, Giovanni D'Addario, Thomas P. Sotiriou

gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, hep-th

Submitted: 2026-07-09

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

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• GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. III. Tests of the Remnants
• Black hole ringdown spectroscopy of curvature-coupled scalar and pseudoscalar fields
• Screening of dipolar emission in two-scale Gauss-Bonnet gravity

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