16 papers
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…