Publications | Pedro G. S. Fernandes

More details can be found on my inspire-hep and Google Scholar profiles. Bibliometric metrics: 33 papers, 1753 citations, h-index=20 (data from inspire-hep). You can also download my MSc thesis and my PhD thesis.

2026

Ringing of rapidly rotating black holes in effective field theory

Tom Steen, Simon Maenaut, Stef J. B. Husken, Pedro G. S. Fernandes, Maxim D. Jockwer, and 3 more authors

Apr 2026

arXiv Bib

@article{vanderSteen:2026qva,
  author = {van der Steen, Tom and Maenaut, Simon and Husken, Stef J. B. and Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Jockwer, Maxim D. and Cardoso, Vitor and Hertog, Thomas and Li, Tjonnie G. F.},
  title = {{Ringing of rapidly rotating black holes in effective field theory}},
  eprint = {2604.11755},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  month = apr,
  year = {2026}
}

Effective cosmological constant as black hole primary hair

Christos Charmousis, Pedro G. S. Fernandes, and Mokhtar Hassaine

Phys. Rev. D, Apr 2026

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Charmousis:2026dbi,
  author = {Charmousis, Christos and Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Hassaine, Mokhtar},
  title = {{Effective cosmological constant as black hole primary hair}},
  eprint = {2603.25598},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/4sn9-hbhc},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {113},
  number = {12},
  pages = {124063},
  year = {2026}
}

Strong breaking of black-hole uniqueness from coexisting scalarization mechanisms

Astrid Eichhorn, Pedro G. S. Fernandes, and Lidia Marino

Phys. Rev. D, Apr 2026

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Eichhorn:2026qaw,
  author = {Eichhorn, Astrid and Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Marino, Lidia},
  title = {{Strong breaking of black-hole uniqueness from coexisting scalarization mechanisms}},
  eprint = {2603.05064},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/8n13-bh27},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {113},
  number = {12},
  pages = {124071},
  year = {2026}
}

Exact analytic rotating black-hole solutions with primary hair

Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Jan 2026

arXiv Bib

@article{Fernandes:2026rjs,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S.},
  title = {{Exact analytic rotating black-hole solutions with primary hair}},
  eprint = {2601.21163},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  month = jan,
  year = {2026}
}

Leading Effective Field Theory Corrections to the Kerr Metric at All Spins

Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Phys. Rev. Lett., Jan 2026

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2025vxg,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S.},
  title = {{Leading Effective Field Theory Corrections to the Kerr Metric at All Spins}},
  eprint = {2512.02338},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/5rk7-zljb},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett.},
  volume = {136},
  number = {24},
  pages = {241401},
  year = {2026}
}

Inflation, black holes with primary hair, and regular planar black holes from an infinite tower of regularized Lovelock-Proca corrections

Pedro G. S. Fernandes, Jingqian Gou, Lavinia Heisenberg, and Nadine Nussbaumer

JCAP, Jan 2026

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2025mic,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Gou, Jingqian and Heisenberg, Lavinia and Nussbaumer, Nadine},
  title = {{Inflation, black holes with primary hair, and regular planar black holes from an infinite tower of regularized Lovelock-Proca corrections}},
  eprint = {2511.22798},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2026/04/078},
  journal = {JCAP},
  volume = {04},
  pages = {078},
  year = {2026}
}

Environmentally induced chaos: Extreme-mass-ratio systems of rotating black holes in astrophysical environments

Kyriakos Destounis, and Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Phys. Rev. D, Jan 2026

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Destounis:2025tjn,
  author = {Destounis, Kyriakos and Fernandes, Pedro G. S.},
  title = {{Environmentally induced chaos: Extreme-mass-ratio systems of rotating black holes in astrophysical environments}},
  eprint = {2508.20191},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/slvg-d6mh},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {113},
  number = {4},
  pages = {044040},
  year = {2026}
}

Regular black holes without mass-inflation instability and gravastars from modified gravity

Astrid Eichhorn, and Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Phys. Rev. D, Jan 2026

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Eichhorn:2025pgy,
  author = {Eichhorn, Astrid and Fernandes, Pedro G. S.},
  title = {{Regular black holes without mass-inflation instability and gravastars from modified gravity}},
  eprint = {2508.00686},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/nqz2-88zf},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {113},
  number = {8},
  pages = {L081501},
  year = {2026}
}

Supermassive black hole scalarization and effective field theory

Farid Thaalba, Pedro G. S. Fernandes, and Thomas P. Sotiriou

Phys. Rev. D, Jan 2026

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Thaalba:2025ljh,
  author = {Thaalba, Farid and Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Sotiriou, Thomas P.},
  title = {{Supermassive black hole scalarization and effective field theory}},
  eprint = {2506.21434},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/vtfr-8zxq},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {113},
  number = {6},
  pages = {064005},
  year = {2026}
}

2025

Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysical Environments

Pedro G. S. Fernandes, and Vitor Cardoso

Phys. Rev. Lett., Jan 2025

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2025osu,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Cardoso, Vitor},
  title = {{Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysical Environments}},
  eprint = {2507.04389},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/9shv-5d21},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett.},
  volume = {135},
  number = {21},
  pages = {211403},
  year = {2025}
}

Nonminimal light-curvature couplings and black-hole imaging

Raúl Carballo-Rubio, Héloı̈se Delaporte, Astrid Eichhorn, and Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Phys. Rev. D, Jan 2025

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Carballo-Rubio:2025zwz,
  author = {Carballo-Rubio, Ra{\'u}l and Delaporte, H{\'e}lo{\"\i}se and Eichhorn, Astrid and Fernandes, Pedro G. S.},
  title = {{Nonminimal light-curvature couplings and black-hole imaging}},
  eprint = {2505.21431},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {astro-ph.HE},
  doi = {10.1103/pxpm-8dgy},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {112},
  number = {10},
  pages = {103016},
  year = {2025}
}

Dark matter and modified gravity: Einstein clusters from a non-minimally coupled vector field

Pedro G. S. Fernandes, and Vitor Cardoso

May 2025

arXiv Bib

@article{Fernandes:2025lon,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Cardoso, Vitor},
  title = {{Dark matter and modified gravity: Einstein clusters from a non-minimally coupled vector field}},
  eprint = {2505.00563},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  month = may,
  year = {2025}
}

Proca theory of four-dimensional regularized Gauss-Bonnet gravity and black holes with primary hair

Christos Charmousis, Pedro G. S. Fernandes, and Mokhtar Hassaine

Phys. Rev. D, May 2025

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Charmousis:2025jpx,
  author = {Charmousis, Christos and Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Hassaine, Mokhtar},
  title = {{Proca theory of four-dimensional regularized Gauss-Bonnet gravity and black holes with primary hair}},
  eprint = {2504.13084},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/9f2w-3kly},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {111},
  number = {12},
  pages = {124008},
  year = {2025}
}

Regular BTZ black holes from an infinite tower of corrections

Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Phys. Lett. B, May 2025

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2025eoc,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S.},
  title = {{Regular BTZ black holes from an infinite tower of corrections}},
  eprint = {2504.08565},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139772},
  journal = {Phys. Lett. B},
  volume = {868},
  pages = {139772},
  year = {2025}
}

Singularity resolution and inflation from an infinite tower of regularized curvature corrections

Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Phys. Rev. D, May 2025

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2025fnz,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S.},
  title = {{Singularity resolution and inflation from an infinite tower of regularized curvature corrections}},
  eprint = {2504.07692},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/763p-htct},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {112},
  number = {8},
  pages = {084028},
  year = {2025}
}

Rotating scalarized black holes: The role of the coupling

Kalin V. Staykov, Daniela D. Doneva, Pedro G. S. Fernandes, and Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Phys. Rev. D, May 2025

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Staykov:2025lfh,
  author = {Staykov, Kalin V. and Doneva, Daniela D. and Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Yazadjiev, Stoytcho S.},
  title = {{Rotating scalarized black holes: The role of the coupling}},
  eprint = {2503.15206},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/z8lr-4tb5},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {112},
  number = {2},
  pages = {024058},
  year = {2025}
}

Purely metric Horndeski theories and spontaneous curvaturization of black holes

Astrid Eichhorn, and Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Phys. Rev. D, May 2025

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Eichhorn:2025aja,
  author = {Eichhorn, Astrid and Fernandes, Pedro G. S.},
  title = {{Purely metric Horndeski theories and spontaneous curvaturization of black holes}},
  eprint = {2502.14717},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.111.104007},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {111},
  number = {10},
  pages = {104007},
  year = {2025}
}

Neutron stars and the cosmological constant problem

Giulia Ventagli, Pedro G. S. Fernandes, Andrea Maselli, Antonio Padilla, and Thomas P. Sotiriou

Phys. Rev. D, May 2025

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Ventagli:2024cho,
  author = {Ventagli, Giulia and Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Maselli, Andrea and Padilla, Antonio and Sotiriou, Thomas P.},
  title = {{Neutron stars and the cosmological constant problem}},
  eprint = {2404.19012},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.111.024001},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {111},
  number = {2},
  pages = {024001},
  year = {2025}
}

Breaking black-hole uniqueness at supermassive scales

Astrid Eichhorn, Pedro G. S. Fernandes, Aaron Held, and Hector O. Silva

Class. Quant. Grav., May 2025

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Eichhorn:2023iab,
  author = {Eichhorn, Astrid and Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Held, Aaron and Silva, Hector O.},
  title = {{Breaking black-hole uniqueness at supermassive scales}},
  eprint = {2312.11430},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1088/1361-6382/add3b6},
  journal = {Class. Quant. Grav.},
  volume = {42},
  number = {10},
  pages = {105006},
  year = {2025}
}

2024

Shadows and properties of spin-induced scalarized black holes with and without a Ricci coupling

Pedro G. S. Fernandes, Clare Burrage, Astrid Eichhorn, and Thomas P. Sotiriou

Phys. Rev. D, May 2024

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2024ztk,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Burrage, Clare and Eichhorn, Astrid and Sotiriou, Thomas P.},
  title = {{Shadows and properties of spin-induced scalarized black holes with and without a Ricci coupling}},
  eprint = {2403.14596},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.109.104033},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {109},
  number = {10},
  pages = {104033},
  year = {2024}
}

2023

Spinning black holes with axion hair

Clare Burrage, Pedro G. S. Fernandes, Richard Brito, and Vitor Cardoso

Class. Quant. Grav., May 2023

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Burrage:2023zvk,
  author = {Burrage, Clare and Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Brito, Richard and Cardoso, Vitor},
  title = {{Spinning black holes with axion hair}},
  eprint = {2306.03662},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1088/1361-6382/acf9d6},
  journal = {Class. Quant. Grav.},
  volume = {40},
  number = {20},
  pages = {205021},
  year = {2023}
}

Rotating black holes in semiclassical gravity

Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Phys. Rev. D, May 2023

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2023vux,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S.},
  title = {{Rotating black holes in semiclassical gravity}},
  eprint = {2305.10382},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.108.L061502},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {108},
  number = {6},
  pages = {L061502},
  year = {2023}
}

2022

A new approach and code for spinning black holes in modified gravity

Pedro G. S. Fernandes, and David J. Mulryne

Class. Quant. Grav., Dec 2022

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2022gde,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Mulryne, David J.},
  eprint = {2212.07293},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1088/1361-6382/ace232},
  journal = {Class. Quant. Grav.},
  volume = {40},
  number = {16},
  pages = {165001},
  month = dec,
  year = {2022}
}

Exploring the small mass limit of stationary black holes in theories with Gauss-Bonnet terms

Pedro G. S. Fernandes, David J. Mulryne, and Jorge F. M. Delgado

Class. Quant. Grav., Jul 2022

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2022kvg,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Mulryne, David J. and Delgado, Jorge F. M.},
  title = {{Exploring the small mass limit of stationary black holes in theories with Gauss-Bonnet terms}},
  eprint = {2207.10692},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1088/1361-6382/aca010},
  journal = {Class. Quant. Grav.},
  volume = {39},
  number = {23},
  pages = {235015},
  month = jul,
  year = {2022}
}

The 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity: a review

Pedro G. S. Fernandes, Pedro Carrilho, Timothy Clifton, and David J. Mulryne

Class. Quant. Grav., Feb 2022

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2022zrq,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Carrilho, Pedro and Clifton, Timothy and Mulryne, David J.},
  title = {{The 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity: a review}},
  eprint = {2202.13908},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1088/1361-6382/ac500a},
  journal = {Class. Quant. Grav.},
  volume = {39},
  number = {6},
  pages = {063001},
  month = feb,
  year = {2022}
}

2021

Black holes in the scalar-tensor formulation of 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity: Uniqueness of solutions, and a new candidate for dark matter

Pedro G. S. Fernandes, Pedro Carrilho, Timothy Clifton, and David J. Mulryne

Phys. Rev. D, Jul 2021

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2021ysi,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Carrilho, Pedro and Clifton, Timothy and Mulryne, David J.},
  title = {{Black holes in the scalar-tensor formulation of 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity: Uniqueness of solutions, and a new candidate for dark matter}},
  eprint = {2107.00046},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.104.044029},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {104},
  number = {4},
  pages = {044029},
  month = jul,
  year = {2021}
}

Gravity with a generalized conformal scalar field: theory and solutions

Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Phys. Rev. D, May 2021

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2021dsb,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S.},
  title = {{Gravity with a generalized conformal scalar field: theory and solutions}},
  eprint = {2105.04687},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.103.104065},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {103},
  number = {10},
  pages = {104065},
  month = may,
  year = {2021}
}

2020

Observational Constraints on the Regularized 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Theory of Gravity

Timothy Clifton, Pedro Carrilho, Pedro G. S. Fernandes, and David J. Mulryne

Phys. Rev. D, Jun 2020

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Clifton:2020xhc,
  author = {Clifton, Timothy and Carrilho, Pedro and Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Mulryne, David J.},
  title = {{Observational Constraints on the Regularized 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Theory of Gravity}},
  eprint = {2006.15017},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.102.084005},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {102},
  number = {8},
  pages = {084005},
  month = jun,
  year = {2020}
}

Derivation of Regularized Field Equations for the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Theory in Four Dimensions

Pedro G. S. Fernandes, Pedro Carrilho, Timothy Clifton, and David J. Mulryne

Phys. Rev. D, Apr 2020

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2020nbq,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Carrilho, Pedro and Clifton, Timothy and Mulryne, David J.},
  title = {{Derivation of Regularized Field Equations for the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Theory in Four Dimensions}},
  eprint = {2004.08362},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.102.024025},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {102},
  number = {2},
  pages = {024025},
  month = apr,
  year = {2020}
}

Charged black holes in AdS spaces in 4D Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Phys. Lett. B, Mar 2020

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2020rpa,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S.},
  title = {{Charged black holes in AdS spaces in 4D Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity}},
  eprint = {2003.05491},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135468},
  journal = {Phys. Lett. B},
  volume = {805},
  pages = {135468},
  month = mar,
  year = {2020}
}

Einstein-Maxwell-scalar black holes with massive and self-interacting scalar hair

Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Phys. Dark Univ., Mar 2020

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2020gay,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S.},
  title = {{Einstein-Maxwell-scalar black holes with massive and self-interacting scalar hair}},
  eprint = {2003.01045},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1016/j.dark.2020.100716},
  journal = {Phys. Dark Univ.},
  volume = {30},
  pages = {100716},
  month = mar,
  year = {2020}
}

2019

Charged black holes with axionic-type couplings: Classes of solutions and dynamical scalarization

Pedro G. S. Fernandes, Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, Alexandre M. Pombo, Eugen Radu, and Nicolas Sanchis-Gual

Phys. Rev. D, Aug 2019

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2019kmh,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Herdeiro, Carlos A. R. and Pombo, Alexandre M. and Radu, Eugen and Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas},
  title = {{Charged black holes with axionic-type couplings: Classes of solutions and dynamical scalarization}},
  eprint = {1908.00037},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.084045},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {100},
  number = {8},
  pages = {084045},
  month = aug,
  year = {2019}
}

Spontaneous Scalarisation of Charged Black Holes: Coupling Dependence and Dynamical Features

Pedro G. S. Fernandes, Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, Alexandre M. Pombo, Eugen Radu, and Nicolas Sanchis-Gual

Class. Quant. Grav., Feb 2019

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{Fernandes:2019rez,
  author = {Fernandes, Pedro G. S. and Herdeiro, Carlos A. R. and Pombo, Alexandre M. and Radu, Eugen and Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas},
  title = {{Spontaneous Scalarisation of Charged Black Holes: Coupling Dependence and Dynamical Features}},
  eprint = {1902.05079},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1088/1361-6382/ab23a1},
  journal = {Class. Quant. Grav.},
  volume = {36},
  number = {13},
  pages = {134002},
  month = feb,
  year = {2019}
}