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astro-ph.HE2016★ 1 cited
Accretion in Radiative Equipartition (AiRE) Disks
Yasaman K. Yazdi, Niayesh Afshordi
Standard accretion disk theory (Shakura & Sunyaev 1973) predicts that the total pressure in disks at typical (sub-)Eddington accretion rates becomes radiation pressure dominated. H…
astro-ph.HE2015★ 2 cited
The mass and radii of strongly magnetized neutron stars
Farbod Kamiab, Avery E. Broderick, Niayesh Afshordi
It has been clear for some time now that super-critical surface magnetic fields, exceeding 4 x 10^13 G, exist on a subset of neutron stars. These magnetars may harbor interior fiel…
astro-ph.HE2015★ 6 cited
"Firewall" Phenomenology with Astrophysical Neutrinos
Niayesh Afshordi, Yasaman K. Yazdi
One of the most fundamental features of a black hole in general relativity is its event horizon: a boundary from which nothing can escape. There has been a recent surge of interest…