Acknowledgments

Chapter IV: Black hole ringdown: the importance of overtones

4.7 Acknowledgments

The authors thank Vijay Varma for many valuable discussions. We also thank Katerina Chatziioannou and Leo Stein for useful comments. M.G. and M.S. are supported by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and NSF grants PHY-1708212 and PHY-1708213 at Caltech. M.I. is a member of the LIGO Laboratory. LIGO was constructed by the California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology with funding from the National Science Foundation and operates under cooperative agreement PHY-0757058. M.I. is supported by NASA through the NASA Hubble Fellowship grant No. HST-HF2-51410.001-A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA, under contract NAS5-26555. S.T. is supported in part by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and by NSF Grants PHY- 1606654 and ACI-1713678 at Cornell. Computations were performed on the Wheeler cluster at Caltech, which is supported by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and by Caltech. Computation were also performed on the Nemo computing cluster at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, supported by NSF Grant PHY-1626190.

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