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gr-qc2026

Boson Stars surrounded by Polish Doughnuts in Scalar-Tensor Theory

Kristian Gjorgjieski, Maxim Rose, Burkhard Kleihaus +2

We investigate thick accretion disks (Polish Doughnuts) around rotating self-interacting boson stars in general relativity and scalar-tensor theories, focusing on spontaneously sca…

gr-qc2026

Polarized Equatorial Emission around Kerr Black Holes with Synchronized Scalar Hair. I. Direct images

Valentin O. Deliyski, Galin N. Gyulchev, Daniela D. Doneva +2

We investigate the polarization properties of the direct images of a geometrically and optically thin accretion disk around fully self-consistent models of rotating Kerr black hole…

gr-qc2026

Images of the Thin Accretion Disk Around Kerr Black Holes coupled to time periodic scalar fields

Galin N. Gyulchev, Daniela D. Doneva, Valentin O. Deliyski +2

We investigate the orbital structure and observable appearance of rotating Kerr black holes endowed with synchronized scalar hair described by two time-periodic scalar fields with…

gr-qc2025

Shadows of rotating traversable wormholes surrounded by plasma

Tsanimir Angelov, Rasim Bekir, Galin Gyulchev +2

We study the influence of the plasma environment on the shadows of stationary axisymmetric wormholes. We consider a sample of several wormhole solutions and plasma distributions fo…

gr-qc2025

Matter Accumulations and Accretion Tori around Wormholes

Kristian Gjorgjieski, Jutta Kunz, Petya Nedkova

We study circular orbits and accretion structures around symmetric wormholes. As exemplary solutions we choose three different wormhole spacetimes, namely rotating traversable worm…

gr-qc2025

Circular Orbits and Photon Orbits at Wormhole Throats

Kristian Gjorgjieski, Jutta Kunz, Petya Nedkova

In this work we study timelike circular orbits and photon orbits at the throat of stationary and axisymmetric wormholes. Our minimal requirements on the spacetime are the existence…

gr-qc2025

Polarized equatorial emission and hot spots around black holes with a dark matter halo

Tsanimir Angelov, Rasim Bekir, Galin Gyulchev +2

We study the linear polarization of the accretion disk around black holes with a dark matter halo. The interaction of the black hole with the dark matter is modelled by considering…

gr-qc2024

Parameter Constraints on Traversable Wormholes within Beyond Horndeski Theories through Quasi-Periodic Oscillations

Farukh Abdulkhamidov, Petya Nedkova, Javlon Rayibaev +2

{\it Hunting} compact astrophysical objects such as black holes and wormholes, as well as testing gravity theories, are important issues in relativistic astrophysics. In this sense…

gr-qc2024

Comparison of Magnetized Thick Disks around Black Holes and Boson Stars

Kristian Gjorgjieski, Jutta Kunz, Petya Nedkova

Boson stars are considered as promising candidates for black hole mimickers. Similar to other compact objects they can form accretion disks around them. The properties of these dis…

gr-qc2024

Shadows of rotating hairy Kerr black holes coupled to time periodic scalar fields with non-flat target space

Galin N. Gyulchev, Ayush Roy, Lucas G. Collodel +3

We study the shadows cast by rotating hairy black holes with two non-trivial time-periodic scalar fields having a non-flat Gaussian curvature of the target space spanned by the sca…

gr-qc2024★ 4 cited

Observing naked singularities by the present and next-generation Event Horizon Telescope

Valentin Deliyski, Galin Gyulchev, Petya Nedkova +1

We consider the observational signatures of reflective naked singularities as seen by the current and next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The reflective naked singularit…

gr-qc2023

Polarized image of equatorial emission in horizonless spacetimes: naked singularities

Valentin Deliyski, Galin Gyulchev, Petya Nedkova +1

We study the linear polarization from the accretion disk around weakly and strongly naked Janis-Newman-Winicour singularities. We consider an analytical toy model of thin magnetize…

gr-qc2023★ 8 cited

Magnetized Thick Disks around Boson Stars

Kristian Gjorgjieski, Jutta Kunz, Matheus C. Teodoro +2

The effects of magnetic fields on accretion disks around compact objects are of high importance in the study of their general properties and dynamics. Here we analyze the influence…

gr-qc2022

Polarized image of equatorial emission in horizonless spacetimes I: traversable wormholes

Valentin Delijski, Galin Gyulchev, Petya Nedkova +1

We study the linear polarization from the accretion disk around a class of static traversable wormholes. Applying the simplified model of a magnetized fluid ring orbiting in the eq…

gr-qc2022★ 1 cited

Photon surfaces, shadows and accretion disks in gravity with minimally coupled scalar field

Igor Bogush, Dmitri Gal'tsov, Galin Gyulchev +3

In this article, we conduct a sequential study of possible observable images of black hole simulators described by two recently obtained rotating geometries in Einstein gravity, mi…

gr-qc2021★ 5 cited

Axial perturbations of hairy Gauss-Bonnet black holes with massive self-interacting scalar field

Kalin V. Staykov, Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Daniela D. Doneva +3

We study the axial quasinormal modes of hairy black holes in Gauss-Bonnet gravity with massive self-interacting scalar field. Two coupling functions of the scalar field to the Gaus…

gr-qc2021

Polish Doughnuts around Scalarized Kerr Black Holes

Matheus C. Teodoro, Lucas G. Collodel, Daniela Doneva +3

In this work we aim to investigate non-mainstream thick tori configurations around Kerr Black Holes with Scalar Hair (KBHsSH). For that goal, we provide a first approach using cons…

gr-qc2021★ 40 cited

Quasi-periodic Oscillations in Rotating Ellis Wormhole Spacetimes

Efthimia Deligianni, Burkhard Kleihaus, Jutta Kunz +2

We analyze the properties of the circular orbits for massive particles in the equatorial plane of symmetric rotating Ellis wormholes. In particular, we obtain the orbital frequenci…

gr-qc2021★ 1 cited

Image of the thin accretion disk around compact objects in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Galin Gyulchev, Petya Nedkova, Tsvetan Vetsov +1

We study the optical appearance of a thin accretion disk around compact objects within the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Considering static spherically symmetric black holes and n…

gr-qc2021★ 42 cited

Quasi-periodic oscillations from the accretion disk around rotating traversable wormholes

Efthimia Deligianni, Jutta Kunz, Petya Nedkova +2

We study the quasi-periodic oscillations from the accretion disk around rotating traversable wormholes by means of the resonance models. We investigate the linear stability of the…

gr-qc2020★ 78 cited

Polar quasinormal modes of the scalarized Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet black holes

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Daniela D. Doneva, Sarah Kahlen +3

We study the polar quasinormal modes of spontaneously scalarized black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory. In previous works we showed that a set of nodeless solutions of the fu…

gr-qc2020★ 59 cited

Observational signatures of strongly naked singularities: image of the thin accretion disk

Galin Gyulchev, Jutta Kunz, Petya Nedkova +2

We study the optical appearance of a thin accretion disk around the strongly naked static Janis-Newman-Winicour singularity. The solution does not possess a photon sphere, which re…

gr-qc2020★ 102 cited

Axial perturbations of the scalarized Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet black holes

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Daniela D. Doneva, Sarah Kahlen +3

We study the axial perturbations of spontaneously scalarized black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theories. We consider the nodeless solutions of the fundamental branch of th…

gr-qc2020★ 8 cited

Quasi-periodic oscillations from the accretion disk around distorted black holes

Efthimia Deligianni, Jutta Kunz, Petya Nedkova

We study the quasi-periodic oscillations from the accretion disk around the distorted Schwarzschild black hole in the framework of the resonant models. We confine ourselves to the…