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most citedMulti-band light curves from eccentric accreting supermassive black hole binaries

62 citations · 193 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Thermal X-ray signatures in late-stage unequal-mass massive black hole binary mergers

Luke Major Krauth, Jordy Davelaar, Zoltán Haiman +3

The multi-messenger combination of gravitational waves (GWs) from merging massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) and the electromagnetic (EM) counterpart from the surrounding circumbi…

astro-ph.HE2024

Relativistic Binary Precession: Impact on Eccentric Binary Accretion and Multi-Messenger Astronomy

Stanislav DeLaurentiis, Zoltan Haiman, John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider +4

Recent hydrodynamical simulations have shown that circumbinary gas disks drive the orbits of binary black holes to become eccentric, even when general relativistic corrections to t…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

Self-lensing flares from black hole binaries III: general-relativistic ray tracing of circumbinary accretion simulations

Luke Major Krauth, Jordy Davelaar, Zoltán Haiman +3

Self-lensing flares (SLFs) are expected to be produced once or twice per orbit by an accreting massive black hole binary (MBHB), if the eclipsing MBHBs are observed close to edge-o…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Multiwavelength Analysis of Fermi-LAT Blazars with High-Significance Periodicity: Detection of a Long-Term Rising Emission in PG 1553+113

P. Peñil, J. R. Westernacher-Schneider, M. Ajello +6

Blazars display variable emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, with timescales that can range from a few minutes to several years. Our recent work has shown that a s…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 18 cited

Constraining the PG 1553+113 binary hypothesis: interpreting hints of a new, 22-year period

Sagar Adhikari, Pablo Penil, John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider +5

PG 1553+113 is a well-known blazar exhibiting evidence of a -yr quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in radio, optical, X-ray, and -ray bands. Since QPO mechanisms often…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 17 cited

Eccentric Minidisks in Accreting Binaries

John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider, Jonathan Zrake, Andrew MacFadyen +1

We show that gas disks around the components of an orbiting binary system (so-called minidisks) may be susceptible to a resonant instability which causes the minidisks to become si…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

Disappearing thermal X-ray emission as a tell-tale signature of merging massive black hole binaries

Luke Major Krauth, Jordy Davelaar, Zoltán Haiman +3

The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect gravitational waves (GWs) from massive black hole binaries (MBHB). Finding the electromagnetic (EM) cou…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

Search for Periodic Variability in -ray Blazars Using \textit{Fermi}-LAT

P. Peñil, M. Ajello, S. Buson +5

Blazars are known to exhibit variability across a broad range of timescales. This behavior can include periodicity in their -ray emission, whose clear detection remains an ongoi…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 62 cited

Multi-band light curves from eccentric accreting supermassive black hole binaries

John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider, Jonathan Zrake, Andrew MacFadyen +1

We use long-run, high-resolution hydrodynamics simulations to compute the multi-wavelength light curves (LCs) from thermal disk emission around accreting equal-mass supermassive bl…

astro-ph.HE2021

Gamma-radiation sky maps from compact binaries

Néstor Ortiz, Federico Carrasco, Stephen R. Green +3

We study sky maps and light curves of gamma-ray emission from neutron stars in compact binaries, and in isolation. We briefly review some gamma-ray emission models, and reproduce s…

gr-qc2020★ 1 cited

Extremely High-Order Convergence in Simulations of Relativistic Stars

John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider

We provide a road towards obtaining gravitational waveforms from inspiraling material binaries with an accuracy viable for third-generation gravitational wave detectors, without ne…

astro-ph.HE2020

Exploration of Hamiltonian formulations of baroclinic hydrodynamics

John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider

A neutron star in a compact binary is expected to be well-approximated by a barotropic flow during the inspiral phase. During the merger phase, where tidal disruption and shock-hea…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 14 cited

Consistent perturbative modeling of pseudo-Newtonian core-collapse supernova simulations

John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider

We write down and apply the linearized fluid and gravitational equations consistent with pseudo-Newtonian simulations, whereby Newtonian hydrodynamics is used with a pseudo-Newtoni…

gr-qc2019★ 4 cited

Hamilton-Jacobi hydrodynamics of pulsating relativistic stars

John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider, Charalampos Markakis, Bing Jyun Tsao

The dynamics of self-gravitating fluid bodies is described by the Euler-Einstein system of partial differential equations. The break-down of well-posedness on the fluid-vacuum inte…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 32 cited

Multimessenger Asteroseismology of Core-Collapse Supernovae

John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider, Evan O'Connor, Erin O'Sullivan +4

We investigate correlated gravitational wave and neutrino signals from rotating core-collapse supernovae with simulations. Using an improved mode identification procedure based on…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 3 cited

Turbulence, Gravity, and Multimessenger Asteroseismology

John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider

Part IA: We present numerical measurements of relativistic scaling relations in -dimensional conformal fluid turbulence, which perform favourably over their non-relativistic…

gr-qc2017★ 7 cited

On the fractal dimension of turbulent black holes

John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider

We present measurements of the fractal dimension of a turbulent asymptotically anti-deSitter black brane reconstructed from simulated boundary fluid data at the perfect fluid order…

hep-th2017★ 11 cited

Numerical Measurements of Scaling Relations in Two-Dimensional Conformal Fluid Turbulence

John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider, Luis Lehner

We present measurements of relativistic scaling relations in -dimensional conformal fluid turbulence from direct numerical simulations, in the weakly compressible regime. Th…

hep-th2015★ 7 cited

Scaling Relations in Two-Dimensional Relativistic Hydrodynamic Turbulence

John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider, Luis Lehner, Yaron Oz

We derive exact scaling relations for two-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic turbulence in the inertial range of scales. We consider both the energy cascade towards large scales…