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Explaining temporal variations in the jet position angle of the blazar OJ 287 using its binary black hole central engine model
Lankeswar Dey, Mauri J. Valtonen, A. Gopakumar +5
The bright blazar OJ 287 is the best-known candidate for hosting a supermassive black hole binary system. It inspirals due to the emission of nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs). O…
Spitzer Observations of the Predicted Eddington Flare from Blazar OJ 287
Seppo Laine, Lankeswar Dey, Mauri Valtonen +25
Binary black hole (BH) central engine description for the unique blazar OJ 287 predicted that the next secondary BH impact-induced bremsstrahlung flare should peak on 2019 July 31.…
Accretion Disk Parameters determined from the great 2015 flare of OJ 287
Mauri J. Valtonen, Staszek Zola, Pauli Pihajoki +17
In the binary black hole model of OJ 287 the secondary black hole orbits a much more massive primary, and impacts on the primary accretion disk at predictable times. We update the…
Authenticating the Presence of a Relativistic Massive Black Hole Binary in OJ 287 Using its General Relativity Centenary Flare: Improved Orbital Parameters
Lankeswar Dey, M. J. Valtonen, A. Gopakumar +5
Results from regular monitoring of relativistic compact binaries like PSR 1913+16 are consistent with the dominant (quadrupole) order emission of gravitational waves (GWs). We show…
General purpose ray-tracing and polarized radiative transfer in General Relativity
Pauli Pihajoki, Matias Mannerkoski, Joonas Nättilä +1
Ray-tracing is a central tool for constructing mock observations of compact object emission and for comparing physical emission models with observations. We present Arcmancer, a pu…
Radiation from rapidly rotating oblate neutron stars
Joonas Nättilä, Pauli Pihajoki
A theoretical framework for emission originating from rapidly rotating oblate compact objects is described in detail. By using a Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, we show how the special…
Black hole accretion disc impacts
Pauli Pihajoki
We present an analytic model for computing the luminosity and spectral evolution of flares caused by a supermassive black hole impacting the accretion disc of another supermassive…
A helical jet model for OJ287
Mauri Valtonen, Pauli Pihajoki
Context. OJ287 is a quasar with a quasi-periodic optical light curve, with the periodicity observed for over 120 years. This has lead to a binary black hole model as a common expla…
Short time-scale periodicity in OJ 287
Pauli Pihajoki, Mauri Valtonen, Stefano Ciprini
We have studied short-term variations of the blazar OJ 287, suspected to host a supermassive black hole binary. In this study, we use a two-season optical R-band dataset from 2004-…
Precursor flares in OJ 287
P. Pihajoki, M. Valtonen, S. Zola +19
We have studied three most recent precursor flares in the light curve of the blazar OJ 287 while invoking the presence of a precessing binary black hole in the system to explain th…