# The impact of plunging matter on black-hole waveform

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a new framework to analyze black-hole ringdown gravitational waveforms affected by dynamical matter fields, revealing complex phenomenology and potential observational signatures for future gravitational wave detections.

## Contribution

It develops a novel theoretical approach to study how dynamical matter fields influence black-hole ringdown signals, including effects like echoes and frequency shifts.

## Key findings

- Dynamical matter fields can suppress or enhance gravitational wave echoes.
- Frequency shifts occur in decay oscillations due to matter interactions.
- Irregular echo patterns and frequency shifts are produced by subluminal moving potentials.

## Abstract

In this work, we introduce a novel framework to investigate ringdown gravitational waveforms in the presence of dynamical matter fields outside the horizon of a black hole. We systematically analyze two distinct scenarios of dynamical matter fields: motion along geodesics and uniform motion with constant velocity. Our results reveal rich phenomenology in the ringdown gravitational wave signals, including the suppression or enhancement of echoes, frequency shifts in the decay oscillations, and intricate modulations of the power-law tails. Notably, we demonstrate that subluminal moving potentials can produce irregular echo patterns and shift the dominant frequencies, offering potential new observational signatures beyond the already-known ringdown analyses. This study provides a new perspective for probing dynamic environments around black holes and offers a theoretical foundation for interpreting possible deviations in future gravitational wave detections.