Explaining nonlinearities in black hole ringdowns from symmetries

Explaining nonlinearities in black hole ringdowns from symmetries

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Speaker(s) Antonio Riotto (Geneva U.)
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It has been recently pointed out that nonlinear effects are necessary to model the ringdown stage of the gravitational waveform produced by the merger of two black holes giving rise to a remnant Kerr black hole. We show that this nonlinear behavior is explained, both on the qualitative and quantitative level, by near-horizon symmetries of the Kerr black hole within the Kerr/CFT correspondence.