Quasinormal Mode Oscillations in an Analogue Black Hole Experiment

Torres, Theo; Patrick, Sam; Richartz, Maurício; Weinfurtner, Silke

Abstract

The late stages of the relaxation process of a black hole are expected to depend only on its mass and angular momentum and not on the details of its formation process. Inspired by recent analogue gravity experiments, which demonstrate that certain black hole processes take place in gravitational and hydrodynamical systems alike, we conduct an experiment to search for quasinormal mode oscillations of the free surface of a hydrodynamical vortex flow. Our results demonstrate the occurrence and hint at the ubiquity of quasinormal ringing in nonequilibrium analog black hole experiments.

Citation

Torres, T., Patrick, S., Richartz, M., & Weinfurtner, S. (2020). Quasinormal Mode Oscillations in an Analogue Black Hole Experiment. Physical Review Letters, 125(1), Article 011301. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.011301

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 12, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jul 1, 2020
• Publication Date: Jul 3, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jul 28, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 24, 2020
• Journal: Physical Review Letters
• Print ISSN: 0031-9007
• Electronic ISSN: 1079-7114
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 125
• Issue: 1
• Article Number: 011301
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.011301
• Keywords: General Physics and Astronomy
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4794146
• Publisher URL: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.011301
• Additional Information: © 2020 American Physical Society