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Viscously Spreading Accretion Disks around Black Holes: Implications for TDEs, LFBOTs and other Transients
Mila Winter-Granic, Eliot Quataert
We present a simple time-dependent model of viscously spreading accretion disks around black holes (BHs) with masses between . We apply the results to observations…
Triples as Links between Binary Black Hole Mergers, their Electromagnetic Counterparts, and Galactic Black Holes
Smadar Naoz, Zoltan Haiman, Eliot Quataert +1
We propose a formation pathway linking black holes (BHs) observed in gravitational-wave (GW) mergers, wide BH-stellar systems uncovered by Gaia, and accreting low-mass X-ray binari…
Interferometric inference of black hole spin from photon ring size and brightness
Joseph R. Farah, Alexandru Lupsasca, Eliot Quataert +1
The photon ring is a full image of the astrophysical source around a black hole, produced by photons that execute half-orbit around the event horizon on their way…
Black Hole Polarimetry II: The Connection Between Spin and Polarization
George N. Wong, Andrew Chael, Alexandru Lupsasca +1
We study synchrotron polarization in spatially resolved horizon-scale images, such as those produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). In both general relativistic magnetohydro…
Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulations of Low-Energy Explosions of Red and Yellow Supergiants
Andrea Antoni, Yan-Fei Jiang, Eliot Quataert
A variety of physical processes leads to the low-energy ejection of material from the hydrogen-rich envelopes of red and yellow supergiants. These include common envelope events, s…
The Double Tidal Disruption Event AT 2022dbl Implies That at Least Some "Standard" Optical TDEs are Partial Disruptions
Lydia Makrygianni, Iair Arcavi, Megan Newsome +37
Flares produced following the tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes can reveal the properties of the otherwise dormant majority of black holes and the physics of ac…