5 papers
Forward Ray Tracing and Hot Spots in Kerr Spacetime
Lihang Zhou, Zhen Zhong, Yifan Chen +1
Hotspots, often characterized as pointlike emissions, frequently appear near black holes with significantly enhanced luminosity compared to the surrounding accretion flow. Notably,…
Gravitational Waves from Accretion Disks: Turbulence, Mode Excitation and Prospects for Future Detectors
Chen Yuan, Vitor Cardoso, Francisco Duque +1
We study gravitational-wave emission by turbulent flows in accretion disks around spinning black holes or neutron stars. We aim to understand how turbulence can stochastically exci…
Einstein Cluster as Central Spiky Distribution of Galactic Dark Matter
Kei-ichi Maeda, Vitor Cardoso, Anzhong Wang
Using the Einstein cluster models, we construct a fully relativistic, spherically symmetric, spiky structure of matter distribution near a supermassive black hole. We introduce and…
Black holes, multiple propagation speeds, and energy extraction
Vitor Cardoso, Shinji Mukohyama, Naritaka Oshita +1
The Standard Model of particle physics predicts the speed of light to be a universal speed of propagation of massless carriers. However, other possibilities exist -- including Lore…
Radiation reaction in weakly magnetized black holes: can the tail term be ignored in the strong field regime?
João S. Santos, Vitor Cardoso, José Natário
We study radiation from charged particles in circular motion around a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in an asymptotically uniform magnetic field. In curved space, the radiation…