6 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
GYOTO 2.0: a polarized relativistic ray-tracing code
N. Aimar, T. Paumard, F. H. Vincent +2
Polarized general-relativistic radiative transfer in the vicinity of black holes and other compact objects has become a crucial tool for probing the properties of relativistic astr…