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A Nonlinear Endpoint of Charged Horizon Instabilities
Zachary Gelles, Frans Pretorius
We numerically construct asymptotically extremal black holes through the nonlinear evolution of a charged scalar field. Our procedure -- which extends the work of Murata-Reall-Tana…
Accumulation of Charge on an Extremal Black Hole's Event Horizon
Zachary Gelles, Frans Pretorius
We numerically analyze the behavior of a charged scalar field on a fixed extremal Reissner-Nordström background. We find an extension of the Aretakis instability characterized by a…
Polarized Image of Equatorial Emission in the Kerr Geometry
Zachary Gelles, Elizabeth Himwich, Daniel C. M. Palumbo +1
We develop a simple toy model for polarized images of synchrotron emission from an equatorial source around a Kerr black hole by using a semi-analytic solution of the null geodesic…