https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3747-4
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On the branching of the quasinormal resonances of near-extremal Kerr black holes
1
The Ruppin Academic Center, Emeq Hefer, 40250, Israel
2
The Hadassah Institute, Jerusalem, 91010, Israel
* e-mail: shaharhod@gmail.com
Received:
1
June
2015
Accepted:
19
October
2015
Published online:
2
November
2015
It has recently been shown by Yang et al. (Phys Rev D 87:041502(R), 2013a; Phys Rev D 88:044047, 2013b) that rotating Kerr black holes are characterized by two distinct sets of quasinormal resonances. These two families of quasinormal resonances display qualitatively different asymptotic behaviors in the extremal (
) black-hole limit: the zero-damping modes are characterized by relaxation times which tend to infinity in the extremal black-hole limit (
as ), whereas the damped modes (DMs) are characterized by non-zero damping rates (
finite-values as ). In this paper we refute the claim made by Yang et al. that co-rotating DMs of near-extremal black holes are restricted to the limited range 
, where 
is the dimensionless ratio between the azimuthal harmonic index m and the spheroidal harmonic index l of the perturbation mode. In particular, we use an analytical formula originally derived by Detweiler in order to prove the existence of DMs (damped quasinormal resonances which are characterized by finite
values in the limit) of near-extremal black holes in the 
regime, the regime which was claimed by Yang et al. not to contain DMs. We show that these co-rotating DMs (in the regime ) are expected to characterize the resonance spectra of rapidly rotating (near-extremal) black holes with 
.
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