  Using series solutions and time-domain evolutions, we probe the eikonal limit
of the gravitational and scalar-field quasinormal modes of large black holes
and black branes in anti-de Sitter backgrounds. These results are particularly
relevant for the AdS/CFT correspondence, since the eikonal regime is
characterized by the existence of long-lived modes which (presumably) dominate
the decay timescale of the perturbations. We confirm all the main qualitative
features of these slowly-damped modes as predicted by Festuccia and Liu
(arXiv:0811.1033) for the scalar-field (tensor-type gravitational)
fluctuations. However, quantitatively we find dimensional-dependent correction
factors. We also investigate the dependence of the QNM frequencies on the
horizon radius of the black hole (brane) and the angular momentum (wavenumber)
of vector- and scalar-type gravitational perturbations.
