13 papers
Transmutation Timescales for Dark Matter Induced Collapse of Compact Stars into Black Holes
H. A. Adarsha, Chandrachur Chakraborty, Sudip Bhattacharyya
Ultra-heavy asymmetric dark matter (DM) particles captured by compact stars can thermalize, self-gravitate, and collapse to form an endoparasitic black hole (EBH), whose subsequent…
Tilted thin accretion disks in the full Kerr spacetime and their implications
K. S. Sruthy, Chandrachur Chakraborty, Sudip Bhattacharyya
We derive a steady-state warped-disk equation in the full Kerr spacetime to study the tilt dynamics of a thin, viscous accretion disk around a spinning collapsed object. The formul…
A NICER and AstroSat view of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 1A 1246-588
Vaidehi Poojyam, Vikas Mistry, Yash Bhargava +2
Neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) systems depict a variety of X-ray spectral and timing features, which can be useful to probe the accretion-ejection mechanism in the…
Degeneracy in Accretion Disk Spectra from Naked Singularities and Kerr Black Holes: Application to the AGN MCG-06-30-15
Vishva Patel, Sayantan Bhattacharya, Sudip Bhattacharyya +1
Theoretical studies suggest that gravitational collapse can form either a black hole or a visible (naked) singularity. Identifying observational signatures that distinguish these t…
Magnetically arrested transmutation of a compact star
H. A. Adarsha, Chandrachur Chakraborty, Sudip Bhattacharyya
We introduce a novel mechanism -- Magnetically Arrested Transmutation (MAT) -- which could be a viable model to account for the observed over-representation of magnetic white dwarf…
Tidal disruption of a neutron star near naked singularity
Ashok B. Joshi, Pankaj S. Joshi, Sudip Bhattacharyya
We investigate the tidal disruption of a neutron star (NS) near a black hole (BH), and for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, near a naked singularity (NaS). For a BH wi…