
Ringing and echoes from black bounces surrounded by the string cloud
Yi Yang,1, ∗Dong Liu,1, †Zhaoyi Xu,1, ‡and Zheng-Wen Long1, §
1College of Physics, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China
In the string theory, the fundamental blocks of nature are not particles but one-dimensional
strings. Therefore, a generalization of this idea is to think of it as a cloud of strings. Rodrigues
et al. embedded the black bounces spacetime into the string cloud, which demonstrates that the
existence of the string cloud makes the Bardeen black hole singular, while the black bounces space-
time remains regular. On the other hand, the echoes are the correction to the late stage of the
quasinormal ringing for a black hole, which is caused by the deviation of the spacetime relative to
the initial black hole spacetime geometry in the near-horizon region. In this work, we study the
gravitational wave echoes of black bounces spacetime surrounded by a cloud of strings under scalar
field and electromagnetic field perturbation to explore the effects caused by a string cloud in the
near-horizon region. The ringing of the regular black hole and traversable wormhole with string
cloud are presented. Our results demonstrate that the black bounce spacetime with strings cloud is
characterized by gravitational wave echoes as it transitions from regular black holes to wormholes,
i.e. the echoes signal will facilitate us to distinguish between black holes and the wormholes in black
bounces surrounded by the string cloud.
I. INTRODUCTION
Recently, the LIGO and Virgo interferometers have
made significant progress in the observation of grav-
itational waves (GWs) [1–6]. In addition, the Event
Horizon Telescope has also made a breakthrough in
the imaging of black hole shadows [7,8]. These
results validate the predictions of general relativity
(GR) about black holes (BH). It also allows physi-
cists to test new physical features beyond GR [9–14],
such as the existence of event horizons in compact
objects. Gravitational wave spectroscopy plays a cru-
cial role in the examination of new physical features
beyond general relativity [15,16]. For the gravita-
tional wave signal generated by the binary merger,
its late stage always decays in the form of the ring-
down. It can usually be described using a superposi-
tion of complex frequency damping exponents, which
are called quasinormal modes (QNMs) [17–19]. The
detection of QNMs can serve as a tool to test GR
predictions. Therefore, this makes gravitational wave
detectors (LIGO/Virgo and LISA, etc.) expected to
detect some new physical features in the future, such
as gravitational wave echoes and so on. Gravita-
tional wave echoes are an important observable for
probing the spacetime near the event horizon of the
black hole. In addition, gravitational wave echoes are
closely related to the unique characteristics of com-
pact objects.
Under the framework of general relativity, with the
perturbation of black hole spacetime, it must be ac-
companied by the emergence of quasinormal modes.
Because as long as a black hole is perturbed, it re-
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†dongliuvv@yeah.net
‡zyxu@gzu.edu.cn
§zwlong@gzu.edu.cn (corresponding author)
sponds to the perturbation by emitting gravitational
waves, and the evolution of gravitational waves can
be divided into three stages [20,21]: first, a relatively
short initial burst of radiation; then a longer damped
oscillation, which depends entirely on the parame-
ters of the black hole; and finally the exponentially
decays over a longer period of time. Note that the
three stages refer to the postmerger gravitational-
wave signal. Among these three stages, people are
generally most concerned about the middle quasinor-
mal ringing stage. The QNMs of black holes have at-
tracted extensive attention [22–41]. Although there
are many indirect ways to identify black holes in the
universe, gravitational waves emitted by perturbed
black holes will carry unique “fingerprints” that allow
physicists to directly identify the existence of black
holes. In particular, Ref. [42] proposes that grav-
itational wave echoes can be used as a new feature
of exotic compact objects. Later, when people stud-
ied QNM in various spacetime backgrounds, gravi-
tational wave echoes were analysed in the late stage
of quasinormal ringing [43–71]. These works make
GWs echoes very important in studying the prop-
erties of compact objects. In Ref. [72], the author
found a new mechanism to produce the gravitational
wave echoes in the black hole spacetime. Bronnikov
and Konoplya [73] found that the echoes appeared in
the black hole-wormhole transition when studying the
quasinormal ringing of black hole mimickers in brane
worlds. In Ref. [74], the authors studied the time
evolutions of external field perturbation in the asym-
metric wormhole and black bounce spacetime back-
ground, they observed echoes signals from the space-
time of asymmetric wormholes and black bounce. Es-
pecially, Churilova and Stuchlik in Ref. [75] studied
the quasinormal ringing of black bounce, and they
found the gravitational wave echoes signal during the
regular black-hole/wormhole transition. We need to
pay attention that not all compact objects can show
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