28 June 2026 to 4 July 2026
NCSR "Demokritos"
Europe/Athens timezone

Nonlinear Tails in Black Hole Ringdown

30 Jun 2026, 11:30
45m
Seminar Room "Themis Paradellis" (NCSR "Demokritos")

Seminar Room "Themis Paradellis"

NCSR "Demokritos"

Speaker

Alexadros Kehagias

Description

Black holes gradually settle into their static configuration by emitting gravitational waves, whose amplitude diminish over time according to a power-law decay at fixed spatial locations. I will show that the nonlinear tails in the presence of a quadratic source, which have been recently found to potentially dominate over the linear ones, can be simply derived from the AdS_2 × S^2 spacetime perspective with their amplitudes being related to the Aretakis constants.

Author

Alexadros Kehagias

Presentation materials