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20232025
most citedOptical appearance of black holes surrounded by a dark matter halo

39 citations · 141 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

gr-qc2025

Twinkle twinkle dark star: Oscillating profiles from dark matter scalar solitons

Nicolas Aimar, Caio F. B. Macedo, João Luís Rosa +1

Real scalar fields, e.g. the axion, cannot condensate into stationary solitonic configurations to form starlike structures, eventually either dispersing or collapsing. However, by…

gr-qc2025

Multi-photon ring structure of reflection-asymmetric traversable thin-shell wormholes

Caio F. B. Macedo, João Luís Rosa, Diego Rubiera-Garcia +1

We consider the observational signatures of thin accretion disks around a reflection-asymmetric traversable thin-shell wormhole. This wormhole, built in the framework of Palatini $…

gr-qc2025

Polarimetry imprints of exotic compact objects: relativistic fluid spheres and gravastars

Hanna Liis Tamm, Nicolas Aimar, João Luís Rosa

Recent observations of polarimetric parameters of active galactic nuclei motivate the study of polarization in the spacetime of exotic compact objects which can mimic the features…

gr-qc2025

Astrometric and polarimetric imprints of hot-spots orbiting parametrized black holes

João Luís Rosa, Nicolas Aimar, Diego Rubiera-Garcia

We analyze the observational features of hot-spots orbiting parametrized black hole (BH) spacetimes. We select a total of four BH spacetimes, two from the Johanssen-Psaltis (JP) pa…

gr-qc2025

Shadows from thin accretion disks of parametrized black hole solutions

Gonzalo J. Olmo, João Luís Rosa, Diego Rubiera-Garcia +2

We discuss the optical appearance from thin accretion disks in parametrized black holes, namely, solutions characterized by an arbitrarily large number of parameters without any re…

astro-ph.HE2025

Sagittarius A* near-infrared flares polarization as a probe of space-time I: Non-rotating exotic compact objects

Nicolas Aimar, João Luís Rosa, Hanna Liis Tamm +1

The center of our galaxy hosts Sagittarius~A*, a supermassive compact object of solar masses, usually associated with a black hole. Nevertheless, black holes…

gr-qc2025

Polarimetry imprints of exotic compact objects: solitonic boson stars

João Luís Rosa, Nicolas Aimar, Hanna Liis Tamm

In this work we analyze the polarization observational properties of solitonic boson stars orbited by spherical hot-spots emitting synchrotron radiation from a thermal distribution…

gr-qc2024★ 1 cited

Bounds on the mass of superradiantly unstable scalar fields around Kerr black holes

Maurício Richartz, João Luís Rosa, Emanuele Berti

In this work we compute numerical bounds on the mass of superradiantly unstable scalar fields in a Kerr black hole background using the continued fraction method. We show that…

gr-qc2024★ 16 cited

Accretion disks and relativistic line broadening in boson star spacetimes

João Luís Rosa, Joaquín Pelle, Daniela Pérez

In this work, we analyze the observational properties of static, spherically symmetric boson stars with fourth and sixth-order self-interactions, using the Julia-based general-rela…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 3 cited

Shadow of quadrupole-deformed compact objects in a local dark matter shell

Shokoufe Faraji, João Luís Rosa

This work investigates observational properties, namely the shadow and photon ring structure, of emission profiles originating near compact objects. In particular, we consider a di…

gr-qc2024★ 39 cited

Optical appearance of black holes surrounded by a dark matter halo

Caio F. B. Macedo, João Luís Rosa, Diego Rubiera-Garcia

Black holes in General Relativity are described by space-time metrics that are simpler in comparison to non-vacuum compact objects. However, given the universality of the gravitati…

gr-qc2024★ 9 cited

Quasibound state reminiscent in de-Sitter black holes: Quasinormal modes and the decay of massive fields

Mateus Malato Corrêa, Caio F. B. Macedo, João Luís Rosa

Massive perturbations in asymptotic flat black holes leave a distinct signature in their late-time evolution `tail': an oscillatory behavior modulated by the Compton wavelength of…

gr-qc2024★ 35 cited

Observational imprints of gravastars from accretion disks and hot-spots

João Luís Rosa, Daniela S. J. Cordeiro, Caio F. B. Macedo +1

In this work, we analyze the observational properties of thin-shell gravastars under two astrophysical frameworks, namely surrounded by optically-thin accretion disks and orbited b…

gr-qc2023★ 19 cited

Gravitationally induced matter creation in scalar-tensor gravity

Ricardo A. C. Cipriano, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo +2

In this work, we analyze the possibility of gravitationally induced matter creation in the so-called Energy-Momentum-Squared gravity (EMSG), i.e. gravity, in it…

gr-qc2023★ 19 cited

Observational properties of hot-spots orbiting relativistic fluid spheres

Hanna Liis Tamm, João Luís Rosa

In this work we analyze the observational properties of relativistic fluid spheres when orbited by isotropically emitting sources, known as hot spots. We consider fluid star config…