3 papers
gr-qc2023
Gravitational Waves from the Pulsar Magnetosphere
Ioannis Contopoulos, Demosthenes Kazanas, Demetrios B. Papadopoulos
We investigate the generation of gravitational waves from the rotation of an orthogonal pulsar magnetosphere in flat space time. We calculate the first order metric perturbation du…
astro-ph.HE2016
The Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Astrophysical Disks
Ioannis Contopoulos, Demosthenes Kazanas, Dimitrios Papadopoulos
This is our first study of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability at the inner edge of an astrophysical disk around a central back hole. We derive the equations governing small-a…
astro-ph.HE2016
On the Theoretical Framework of Magnetized Outflows from Stellar-Mass Black Holes and Related Observations
D. M. Christodoulou, I. Contopoulos, D. Kazanas +3
The spins of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) and the power outputs of their jets are measurable quantities. Unfortunately, the currently employed methods do not agree and the result…