Electromagnetic perturbations of a de Sitter black hole in massive gravity (1701.01983v2)

Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to study quasinormal modes (QNM) of a black hole in massive gravity with a positive cosmological constant due to electromagnetic perturbations. A detailed study of the QNM frequencies for the electromagnetic field is done by varying the parameters of the theory such as the mass, scalar charge, cosmological constant, and the spherical harmonic index. We have employed the sixth order WKB approximation to calculate the QNM frequencies. The electromagnetic potential for the near extreme massive gravity de Sitter black hole is approximated with the P$\ddot{o}$schl-Teller potential to obtain exact frequencies. Our results show that the black hole is stable under electromagnetic perturbations. The null geodesics of the black hole in massive gravity is employed to describe the absorption cross sections at high-frequency limit.