Review Article

A New Approach to Black Hole Quasinormal Modes: A Review of the Asymptotic Iteration Method

Table 8

The QNM frequencies for the Scalar Perturbations of the Kerr Black Hole, with ( , ). Numerical data via the CFM taken from [45, 46], where the AIM was set to run at 15 iterations.

Numerical Third-order WKB(J) Sixth-order WKB(J) AIM

0 0 0.1145–0.0957i 0.1005–0.1007i 0.1211–0.0897i 0.1141–0.0939i
(−12.2%, 5.22%)(5.76%, −6.23%)(−0.35%, −1.88%)

1 00.3067–0.0901i 0.3029–0.0891i 0.3053–0.0893i 0.3052–0.0892i
(−1.24%, −1.11%)(−0.46%, −0.89%)(−0.49%, −1.00%)
1 0.2820–0.2783i 0.2758–0.2779i 0.2821–0.2755i 0.2817–0.2756i
(−2.20%, −0.14%)(0.04%, −1.01%)(−0.11%, −0.97%)

2 00.5071–0.0897i 0.5035–0.0885i 0.5041–0.0886i 0.5041–0.0886i
(−0.71%, −1.34%)(−0.59%, −1.23%)(−0.59%, −1.23%)
1 0.4906–0.2722i 0.4866–0.2693i 0.4885–0.2690i 0.4885–0.2689i
(−0.82%, −1.07%)(−0.43%, −1.18%)(−0.43%, −1.21%)
2 0.4609–0.4634i 0.4585–0.4570i 0.4607–0.4581i 0.4606–0.4579i
(−0.52%, −1.38%)(−0.04%, −1.14%)(−0.06%, −1.19%)