3 papers
astro-ph.HE2026
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Black-Hole Coronae: QPOs, Turbulence, and Jets
Vanessa López-Barquero, Alejandro Jenkins, Christopher S. Reynolds +1
The variability of X-rays observed from accreting black hole systems, including quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), suggests a complex nonlinear dynamics in the corona. Here, we pr…
physics.hist-ph2026
Portrait of the mathematician as a young man: Revisiting Trinity's Tayler picture
Alejandro Jenkins
A 17th-century oil painting by an unknown artist, once owned by the Tayler family and now in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, is currently identified as a portrait of…
gr-qc2025
The irreversible relaxation of inflation
Robert Alicki, Gabriela Barenboim, Alejandro Jenkins
Based on the results of a previous analysis of the Markovian master equation for the irreversible evolution of an open system embedded in de Sitter space, we include in the cosmolo…