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Destabilizing the fundamental mode of black holes: the elephant and the flea

Destabilizing the fundamental mode of black holes: the elephant and the flea
Destabilizing the fundamental mode of black holes: the elephant and the flea

Recent work applying the notion of pseudospectrum to gravitational physics showed that the quasinormal mode spectrum of black holes is unstable, with the possible exception of the longest-lived (fundamental) mode. The fundamental mode dominates the expected signal in gravitational wave astronomy, and there is no reason why it should have privileged status. We compute the quasinormal mode spectrum of two model problems where the Schwarzschild potential is perturbed by a small "bump"consisting of either a Pöschl-Teller potential or a Gaussian, and we show that the fundamental mode is destabilized under generic perturbations. We present phase diagrams and study a simple double-barrier toy problem to clarify the conditions under which the spectral instability occurs.

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Cheung, Mark Ho-yeuk
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Destounis, Kyriakos
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Macedo, Rodrigo Panosso
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Berti, Emanuele
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Cardoso, Vitor
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Cheung, Mark Ho-yeuk
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Destounis, Kyriakos
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Macedo, Rodrigo Panosso
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Berti, Emanuele
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Cardoso, Vitor
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Cheung, Mark Ho-yeuk, Destounis, Kyriakos, Macedo, Rodrigo Panosso, Berti, Emanuele and Cardoso, Vitor (2022) Destabilizing the fundamental mode of black holes: the elephant and the flea. Physical Review Letters, 128 (11), [111103]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.111103).

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Recent work applying the notion of pseudospectrum to gravitational physics showed that the quasinormal mode spectrum of black holes is unstable, with the possible exception of the longest-lived (fundamental) mode. The fundamental mode dominates the expected signal in gravitational wave astronomy, and there is no reason why it should have privileged status. We compute the quasinormal mode spectrum of two model problems where the Schwarzschild potential is perturbed by a small "bump"consisting of either a Pöschl-Teller potential or a Gaussian, and we show that the fundamental mode is destabilized under generic perturbations. We present phase diagrams and study a simple double-barrier toy problem to clarify the conditions under which the spectral instability occurs.

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Accepted/In Press date: 23 February 2022
Published date: 18 March 2022

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Local EPrints ID: 456583
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/456583
ISSN: 0031-9007
PURE UUID: 2d3a91e8-d488-4257-9c0d-1c38a517b2ca
ORCID for Rodrigo Panosso Macedo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2942-5080

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Date deposited: 05 May 2022 16:39
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 02:12

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Author: Mark Ho-yeuk Cheung
Author: Kyriakos Destounis
Author: Emanuele Berti
Author: Vitor Cardoso

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