9 papers
Dynamics and geometry of the inner sub-parsec-scale jet in 3C 279 observed with the Event Horizon Telescope
Hendrik Mueller, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Ai-Ling Zeng +275
The 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations resolve the innermost jet region of the blazar 3C279 with unprecedented detail. The reconstructed images consistently reveal a compact…
Observational distinguishability of the Kerr and Kerr-Hayward metrics to EHT
Nikola Bukowiecka, Angelo Ricarte, Prashant Kocherlakota +1
Astrophysical black holes appear well-represented by the Kerr metric, whose maximal analytic extension contains a ringlike curvature singularity. We study a phenomenological regula…
Sensitivities of Black Hole Images from GRMHD Simulations
Pedro Naethe Motta, Mário Raia Neto, Cora Prather +1
The advent of high-fidelity imaging of supermassive black holes calls for efficient and robust data-analysis methods. In this work, we use , a differentiable, $\te…
Ring Position Angles and Spin in M87* and Sgr A*
Nicholas S. Conroy, Michi Bauböck, Vadim Bernshteyn +4
Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) images of black holes appear as rings with a brightness asymmetry. Here, we expand on our previous study of the asymmetry magnitude to study the…
Supermassive Black Holes: modelling strongly and weakly magnetised misaligned accretion disks
Joshua Samuel Stanway, Cora Prather, Derek Ward-Thompson +3
In this paper, we carry out a numerical study of misaligned accretion disks around spinning supermassive black holes. Here, we conduct a parameter survey covering a range of initia…
Polarization Signatures from GRMHD Simulations of Black Hole Accretion
P. Chris Fragile, Maciek Wielgus, Cora Prather
This chapter tells the still-unfolding story of extracting polarization signatures from general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations of accretion disks. In some sense, thi…