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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…
astro-ph.HE2023
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…