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Phys. Rev. D 55, 3593–3602 (1997)

Detailed study of quasinormal frequencies of the Kerr black hole

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Hisashi Onozawa
Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152, Japan

Received 18 October 1996; published in the issue dated 15 March 1997

We compute the quasinormal frequencies of the Kerr black hole using a continued fraction method. The continued fraction method first proposed by Leaver is still the only known method stable and accurate for the numerical determination of the Kerr quasinormal frequencies. We numerically obtain not only the slowly but also the rapidly damped quasinormal frequencies and analyze the peculiar behavior of these frequencies at the Kerr limit. We also calculate the algebraically special frequency first identified by Chandrasekhar and confirm that it coincides with the n=8 quasinormal frequency only at the Schwarzschild limit.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.55.3593
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.55.3593
PACS:
04.70.Bw, 04.25.Nx, 04.30.Nk