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Quasinormal Modes of Static Modified Gravity (MOG) Black Holes

Luciano ManfrediDepartment of Physics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA USAJonas MureikaDepartment of Physics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA USAJ. W. Moffat
2017en
ABI

Abstract

Using an asymptotic iteration method, we calculate the gravitational and electromagnetic quasinormal mode (QNM) perturbations for a static neutral black hole described by a Scalar-Tensor-Vector Modified Gravity framework (STVG-MOG). We show that the first few harmonic modes differ from their general relativistic (GR) equivalent for a Schwarzschild black hole. Specifically, the real and imaginary components of the QNM frequencies are smaller for STVG-MOG than for GR. We posit that the differences are sufficiently large to potentially be observed in present and future black hole binary merger gravitational waveforms.

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