{"title":"Low-lying quasinormal modes of Kazakov–Solodukhin black holes from Chebyshev and continued-fraction methods","authors":"Adel H Al-Yoorby","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae9e20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae9e20","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Black-hole quasinormal modes are damped resonances set by wave scattering from the curvature-generated potential barrier outside the horizon. We ask how the Kazakov–Solodukhin (KS) deformation changes these resonances at fixed mass. The minimally coupled scalar field is the cleanest physical probe because its propagation is fixed by the metric alone. Increasing the deformation moves the scalar barrier outward and makes its peak lower and less sharply curved. The lower barrier reduces the oscillation scale, while the flatter peak reduces the damping rate: the scalar ringdown therefore has a lower pitch and a slightly longer-lived envelope. For the quadrupolar ℓ = 2 , n = 0 mode at a / M = 1 , Re ω , − Im ω , and Q = Re ω / [ 2 ( − Im ω ) ] change by − 7.29 % , − 2.59 % , and − 4.83 % , respectively. Because the pitch falls more than the damping rate, the perturbation completes fewer cycles per damping time even though it decays slightly more slowly. We establish these shifts with Chebyshev collocation and a collocation-independent Frobenius continued fraction, accepting candidate roots only after residual, convergence, continuation, backward-error, and cross-method checks. In the Schwarzschild limit, the N = 96 scalar result and the continued-fraction value differ from the published benchmark by 5.60 × 10 − 11 and 8.24 × 10 − 13 . We report robust scalar fundamentals for ℓ = 2 , 3 , 4 , cross-validated first overtones at N = 32 , and exploratory second overtones. The scalar pseudospectral basin broadens with deformation, indicating increased local numerical sensitivity without, by itself, implying an instability. For odd-parity gravitational perturbations we derive a gauge-invariant master equation under an inverse-Cowling closure; those axial frequencies remain conditional because the spherical KS action does not determine nonspherical quantum-source perturbations.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"12 1","pages":"175010"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148894166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antipodal constraints on transient Hawking radiation in a conformal channel","authors":"M Baran Ökten,Aslı S Turan","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae99a5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae99a5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Hawking radiation away from stationarity is governed, at the ray tracing level, by the retarded time evolution of the null mapping. We consider an extracted massless conformal channel whose outgoing directions are labelled on a fixed reference horizon slice. Balanced uniformisation, after fixing a nondegenerate balanced branch, defines an induced antipodal involution on this slice. We prove that creation and erasure of centred antipodal odd structure in the channel labelled peeling field enforce a lower bound on the time-integrated spatial norm of the conformal channel defect. The forcing scale depends only on the largest intermediate mismatch and the intrinsic Jacobian distortion of the induced antipode, while greybody filtering, angular and frequency mixing, mass effects, spin dependence, and residual propagation or extraction corrections enter through a remainder whose integrated norm must be controlled independently. Round sphere odd scalar harmonics provide analytic calibrations, with the compact dipole pulse saturating the geometric and temporal estimates. A time-averaged form identifies a transient conformal channel scale proportional to the antipodal peeling amplitude divided by the episode duration.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"5 1","pages":"175012"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148894165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yi Shuen Christine Lee,Marek Szczepańczyk,Tanmaya Mishra,Margaret Millhouse,Andrew Melatos
{"title":"Dedicated-frequency analysis of gravitational-wave bursts from core-collapse supernovae","authors":"Yi Shuen Christine Lee,Marek Szczepańczyk,Tanmaya Mishra,Margaret Millhouse,Andrew Melatos","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/aea263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aea263","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Gravitational waves (GWs) emitted during a core-collapse supernova (CCSN) exhibit characteristic frequency features that encode information about the underlying physical processes leading up to the explosion. The dedicated-frequency framework is a hierarchical pipeline for following up GW burst detection candidates via bandpass analyses, designed to facilitate the detection of frequency-specific GW signatures. The applications of the dedicated-frequency framework are demonstrated using two separate case studies: a low-frequency and a high-frequency analysis. A successful detection with the low-frequency analysis, limited to ≲ 256 Hz, confirms the presence of low-frequency GW signatures associated hydrodynamical instabilities and provides constrains on CCSNe explosion mechanisms. In contrast, a high-frequency analysis, limited to ≳ 256 Hz, improves the detection significance of events with negligible signal power below 256 Hz. The methods and results described in this article were originally presented in Lee et al. 2025 (Physical Review D 112, 082006).","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"11661 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148894172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Calibrating spectral siren cosmology with synthetic catalogs of binary black hole mergers","authors":"Arianna Scarpa,Simone Mastrogiovanni,Filippo Santoliquido,Manuel Arca Sedda,Giovanni Antinozzi","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/aea262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aea262","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected through Gravitational Waves (GWs) are a promising probe for the cosmic expansion. These sources are standard sirens for which we can directly measure the luminosity distance, but their redshift is degenerate with the determination of their source masses. In analogy to standard candles, the redshift of standard sirens can be obtained using a calibration based on the source mass spectrum, but without the need for a cosmological ladder. 
The modelling of the BBH mass spectrum is crucial for GW cosmology. In this paper, we propose a new pipeline based on Normalizing Flows to calibrate population models on synthetic BBH catalogs generated from astrophysical prescriptions. Although these models are less flexible than the current parametric models used in the literature, they have the advantage of directly capturing the correlations between BBH mass and redshift and provide a direct link between different formation channels and cosmological parameter inference. We discuss potential applications and limitations of this method using the B-POP code to generate a mock catalog that contains BBH formed by isolated stellar binaries and in dense stellar environments via dynamical interactions.
Using this methodology, we show that B-POP provides a good fit for the mass and redshift distributions of the GW events in GWTC-4.0 data for a flat ΛCDM cosmology with H 0 ~ 70 km/s/Mpc and Ω m =0.308. We also find a correlation between H 0 and the fraction of binaries produced by the dynamical and isolated formation channels arising from the fact that dynamically formed binaries populate the higher side of the mass spectrum.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148894170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regular Black Strings and $(2+1)$ Black Hole in Unimodular Gravity Supported by Maxwell Fields","authors":"Geová Alencar,Victor Hugo Uchoa Borralho","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/aea264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aea264","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this work, we obtain regular solutions with a dynamical cosmological function in unimodular
gravity. This alternative theory to General Relativity imposes an additional condition on the spacetime volume element by fixing the metric volume density to a prescribed non-dynamical quantity, which can be represented by a constant in unimodular coordinates. In this procedure, the cosmological constant does not appear directly in the action, but rather as an integration constant of the field equations. 
By using the non-conservation of the energy-momentum tensor, we show that the integration constant becomes a function $Lambda(x)=Lambda_0+deltaLambda(x)$, where $Lambda_0$ is the vacuum cosmological constant and $deltaLambda(r)$ is a matter-induced cosmological contribution determined by the geometry and the electromagnetic sector.
From the definition of the geometric function $H(r)$, we verify the validity of Maxwell electrodynamics as a source for the solutions. We further show that linear combinations of the mass functions associated with the individual solutions can also be consistently supported by the Maxwell field, a property that is not generally shared by nonlinear electrodynamics. This result allows us to construct a broader family of regular solutions and investigate their physical properties. In particular, we analyze the energy conditions, curvature invariants, and thermodynamic properties of the generated solutions.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"379 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148894168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara Azizi,Swapnil Shankar,Philipp Mösta,Roland Haas,Erik Schnetter
{"title":"A resistive MHD module in the GPU-accelerated GRMHD code\u0000 GRaM-X","authors":"Sara Azizi,Swapnil Shankar,Philipp Mösta,Roland Haas,Erik Schnetter","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae99ce","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae99ce","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Relativistic macroscopic plasma dynamics can be described by general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. In many high-energy astrophysical settings, such as the interior dynamics of magnetized stars, the ideal GRMHD approximation, in which we assume infinite conductivity, provides an excellent description. However, ideal GRMHD neglects resistive effects that are essential for processes such as magnetic reconnection, dissipation, and magnetospheric dynamics. Incorporating resistivity into astrophysical plasma models accounts for the fact that plasmas in such environments are not perfect conductors. We present a resistive version of the GPU-accelerated GRMHD code GRaM-X , which evolves the full resistive GRMHD equations using the Z4c formalism for Einstein’s equations. We implement a second-order implicit–explicit Runge–Kutta scheme to handle stiff source terms, obtain the primitive quantities from the conserved quantities using one- and four-dimensional recovery methods, and employ the HLLE Riemann solver in combination with TVD and WENO reconstruction schemes. We validate the module using a range of standard tests, including 1D shocktubes, current sheets, Alfvén waves, 2D cylindrical explosions, and 3D TOV stars. The results of these tests demonstrate accurate recovery of the ideal MHD limit, correct resistive behavior, and stable evolution in dynamical spacetimes. Leveraging the GPU-accelerated resistive version of GRaM-X enables efficient large-scale simulations, paving the way for realistic studies of binary mergers, accretion flows, and relativistic jets within the framework of multi-messenger astrophysics.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"266 1","pages":"175009"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148894171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}