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Black-hole spectroscopy: testing general relativity through gravitational-wave observations

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Dreyer, Olaf, Kelly, Bernard, Krishnan, Badri, Finn, Lee Samuel, Garrison, David, Lopez-Aleman, Ramon·2004·Classical and Quantum Gravity
DOI 10.1088/0264-9381/21/4/003
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Assuming that general relativity is the correct theory of gravity in the strong-field limit, can gravitational-wave observations distinguish between black holes and other compact object sources? Alternatively, can gravitational-wave observations provide a test of one of the fundamental predictions of general relativity: the no-hair theorem? Here we describe a definitive test of the hypothesis that observations of damped, sinusoidal gravitational waves originate from a black hole or, alternatively, that nature respects the general relativistic no-hair theorem. For astrophysical black holes, which have a negligible charge-to-mass ratio, the black-hole quasi-normal mode spectrum is characterized entirely by the black-hole mass and angular momentum and is unique to black holes. In a different theory of gravity, or if the observed radiation arises from a different source (e.g., a neutron star, strange matter or boson star), the spectrum will be inconsistent with that predicted for general relativistic black holes. We give a statistical characterization of the consistency between the noisy observation and the theoretical predictions of general relativity and a demonstration, through simulation, of the effectiveness of the test for strong sources.

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Authors
Dreyer, O., Kelly, B., Krishnan, B., Finn, L. S., Garrison, D., & Lopez-Aleman, R.
Venue
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Published
2004-01-05
Volume
21
Issue
4
Pages
787-803
ISSN
  • 0264-9381 (ISSN-L)
  • 1361-6382
DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/21/4/003
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431
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journal article
Language
en
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Dreyer, O., Kelly, B., Krishnan, B., Finn, L. S., Garrison, D., & Lopez-Aleman, R. (2004). Black-hole spectroscopy: testing general relativity through gravitational-wave observations. Classical and Quantum Gravity. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/21/4/003

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