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Dense Dump Codec: Error-Controlled, Random-Access Compression of GRMHD Time Series for Slow-Light Radiative Transfer
Zelin Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, Bin Chen
Black-hole movies provide a unique venue to study the time evolution of accreting plasma. Modeling this evolution with slow-light radiative transfer requires closely spaced simulat…
KPolaris: GPU-accelerated Polarized Radiative Transfer in General Relativity
Zelin Zhang, Bin Chen
Polarized black-hole images carry information about both the magnetized plasma and the curved spacetime through which the radiation propagates. We present KPolaris, an open-source…
Thermodynamics of Kerr-Newman-Bertotti-Robinson black holes
Zelin Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, Bin Chen
In this work, we extend the thermodynamic analyses of the neutral and specially charged Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson black holes to the general Kerr-Newman-Bertotti-Robinson family, in w…
Shadows and Thin-Disk Images of Kerr-Newman Black Holes in a Bertotti-Robinson Magnetic Field
Xi Wan, Haiyu Wang, Zhenyu Zhang +2
In this paper, we investigate the optical properties of Kerr-Newman-Bertotti-Robinson (KN-BR) black holes. We use the separability of null geodesics to analyze unstable spherical p…
CoportSL: A Contribution-constrained Hybrid Slow-light Framework for Time-dependent Polarized GRMHD Imaging
Fan Zhou, Jiewei Huang, Yuehang Li +2
Fast-light approximations neglect fluid evolution along rays, whereas slow-light modeling is indispensable for recovering the true magnetohydrodynamic state. However, full slow-lig…
Completing the Penrose Process without a Horizon
Yang Huang, Shiyang Hu, Bin Chen +1
In its standard black-hole realization, the Penrose process uses an event horizon to remove a negative-energy fragment. We show that, at the kinematic level, horizon absorption can…
Polarization Architecture of Steady GRMHD Jets from the Horizon to Infinity
Zhenyu Zhang, Yehui Hou, Yu Song +2
We develop a semi-analytic framework for stationary, axisymmetric GRMHD jets that efficiently generates resolved polarized images from the near-horizon region out to $\sim 10^5\,r_…
Distinct Near-Horizon Trend of Synchrotron Polarization in Kerr Spacetime
Yehui Hou, Jiewei Huang, Bin Chen
We show that the near-horizon expansion of the linear polarization vector for synchrotron emission in a Kerr background admits a distinct analytic form. For emission from a station…
Distorting Kerr Images with Parity-Odd Scalar Hair
Qian Wan, Yehui Hou, Yang Huang +3
We investigate thin-disk imaging of Kerr black holes with synchronized scalar hair, focusing on backreacted parity-odd excited states of a complex scalar field minimally coupled to…
Black Hole Ringdown Seen in Photon Polarization Swings
Jiewei Huang, Yehui Hou, Zhen Zhong +2
Light propagating through a perturbed spacetime could imprint the underlying gravitational waveform directly onto electromagnetic observables. In this Letter, we develop a covarian…
Testing solitonic boson star interpretations of Sagittarius A* with near-infrared flare astrometry
Xiangyu Wang, Zhenyu Zhang, Hai-Qing Zhang +2
We use GRAVITY near-infrared (NIR) flare astrometry to test whether Sagittarius A* could be a solitonic boson star. We consider five spherically symmetric solitonic boson-star mode…
Critical Behavior of Photon Rings in Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson Spacetime
Xi Wan, Zhenyu Zhang, Fang-Stars Wei +2
In this work, we investigate the critical behavior of photon rings in the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson spacetime, describing a rotating black hole immersed in a background magnetic field…
Non-thermal Synchrotron Emission and Polarization Signatures during Black Hole Flux Eruptions
Fan Zhou, Jiewei Huang, Yuehang Li +4
In this work, we investigate synchrotron emission and the observational signatures of anisotropic non-thermal electrons during magnetic-flux eruptions in a magnetically arrested di…
Probing the Penrose Process: Images of Split Hotspots and Their Observational Signatures
Zhixing Zhao, Zhong-Ying Fan, Xiaobao Wang +2
While theoretically established for decades, the Penrose process - energy extraction from rotating black holes - still lacks clear observational evidence. A promising theoretical f…
Semi-analytical Study on the Polarized Images of Black Hole due to Frame Dragging
Xinyu Wang, Songbai Chen, Minyong Guo +1
An initially retrograde accretion flow is transformed into a prograde configuration before plunging into the black hole, as a result of the frame-dragging effect induced by the bla…
Hybrid Black Hole and Disk-Driven Jets: Steady Axisymmetric Ideal MHD Modeling
Yu Song, Yehui Hou, Lei Huang +1
Improved observational precision in relativistic jets has underscored the need for tractable theoretical models. In this study, we construct a semi-analytical hybrid jet model that…
Geodesics and Shadows in the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson Black Hole Spacetime
Xinyu Wang, Yehui Hou, Xi Wan +2
In this work, we investigate geodesics and black hole shadows in the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson spacetime. We show that the equations of motion for null geodesics are separable and adm…
Autocorrelation signatures in time-resolved black hole flare images: secondary peaks and convergence structure
Zhenyu Zhang, Yehui Hou, Minyong Guo +2
The strong gravitational field of a black hole bends light, forming multi-level images, yet extracting precise spacetime information from them remains challenging. In this study, w…
Magnetic reconnection under centrifugal and gravitational electromotive forces
Zhong-Ying Fan, Fan Zhou, Yuehang Li +2
We examine the physical implications of the centrifugal and gravitational electromotive forces on magnetic reconnection in a Kerr black hole background. We find that both forces in…
Near-Horizon Polarization as a Diagnostic of Black Hole Spacetime
Yehui Hou, Jiewei Huang, Minyong Guo +2
A key challenge in imaging supermassive black holes is disentangling gravitational effects from plasma physics in order to accurately determine spacetime properties, particularly b…
Polarization Patterns of the Hotspots Plunging into a Kerr Black Hole
Bin Chen, Yehui Hou, Yu Song +1
The multi-wavelength polarized light signals from supermassive black holes have sparked many studies on polarized images of accretion disks and hotspots. However, the polarization…
Coport: A New Public Code for Polarized Radiative Transfer in a Covariant Framework
Jiewei Huang, Liheng Zheng, Minyong Guo +1
General relativistic radiative transfer calculations are essential for comparing theoretical models of black hole accretion flows and jets with observational data. In this work, we…
Images and flares of geodesic hotspots around a Kerr black hole
Jiewei Huang, Zhenyu Zhang, Minyong Guo +1
In this study, we develop a numerical method to generate images on an observer's screen, formed by radiation from hotspots on any timelike orbits outside a black hole. This method…
Imaging thick accretion disks and jets surrounding black holes
Zhenyu Zhang, Yehui Hou, Minyong Guo +1
Based on the horizon-scale magnetofluid model developed in [arXiv:2309.13304], we investigate the millimeter-wave images of a geometrically thick accretion disk or a funnel wall, i…