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Recent years have witnessed tremendous progress in numerical relativity and an ever improving performance of ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors. In preparation for Advanced LIGO and a new era in gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-18 Sebastian Fischetti , James Healy , Laura Cadonati , Lionel London , Satyanarayan R. P. Mohapatra , Deirdre Shoemaker

Accreting massive black holes (MBHs, with M$_\bullet > 10^3$ M$_{\odot}$) are known for their panchromatic emission, spanning from radio to gamma rays. While MBHs accreting at significant fractions of their Eddington rate are readily…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Valentina La Torre , Fabio Pacucci

Two critical aspects of radio interferometric imaging analysis are data calibration and deconvolution of the point spread function (PSF) structure. Both of these are particularly important for high-frequency observations using a VLBI…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-27 Makoto Miyoshi , Yoshiaki Kato , Junichiro Makino

A new statistical method for pinpointing the massive black hole (BH) in the Galactic Center on the IR grid is presented and applied to astrometric IR observations of stars close to the BH. This is of interest for measuring the IR emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Tal Alexander

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has produced images of two supermassive black holes, Messier~87* (M 87*) and Sagittarius~A* (Sgr A*). The EHT collaboration used these images to indirectly constrain black hole parameters by calibrating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Daniel C. M Palumbo , Zachary Gelles , Paul Tiede , Dominic O. Chang , Dominic W. Pesce , Andrew Chael , Michael D. Johnson

I show that industrial-scale mass measurement of isolated black holes (BHs) can be achieved by combining a high-cadence, wide-field microlensing survey such as KMTNet, observations from a parallax satellite in solar orbit, and VLTI GRAVITY+…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-31 Andrew Gould

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) have recently attracted much attention as they may explain some of the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observations and significantly contribute to the dark matter in our universe. The next generation of Gravitational Wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 G. Franciolini , F. Iacovelli , M. Mancarella , M. Maggiore , P. Pani , A. Riotto

We model the electromagnetic signatures of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with an associated gas component. The method comprises numerical simulations of relativistic binaries and gas coupled with calculations of the physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tamara Bogdanovic , Britton D. Smith , Steinn Sigurdsson , Michael Eracleous

(Abridged) The repeated discovery of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galactic bulges, and the discovery of relations between the SMBH mass (M) and the properties of these bulges, has been fundamental in directing our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Batcheldor , A. M. Koekemoer

We describe a method for the determination of black-hole masses based on information inferred from high-energy spectra. It is required that the spectral energy distribution consist of thermal and Comptonized components. One can then, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chris Shrader , Lev Titarchuk

The bell-like ringdown of the gravitational field in the last stage of the merging of massive black holes is now routinely detected on earth by the last generation of gravitational wave detectors. Its spectrum is interpreted as a sum of…

The central region of the dark matter halo of the Milky Way is a promising target for a search for a particle dark matter annihilation signal. The H.E.S.S. Collaboration has published a search for a photon flux originating from dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-06 Gerrit Spengler , Ullrich Schwanke

Exoplanets, with their large volumes and low temperatures, are ideal celestial detectors for probing dark matter (DM) interactions. DM particles can lose energy through scattering with the planetary interior and become gravitationally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Mehrdad Phoroutan-Mehr , Tara Fetherolf

The initial data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) on M87$^*$, the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, provide direct observational information on its mass, spin, and accretion disk properties. A combination of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-12 Hooman Davoudiasl , Peter B. Denton

Accurate identification of unobservable regions in nighttime is essential for autonomous scheduling and data quality control in observations.Traditional methods-such as infrared sensing or photometric extinction-provide only…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Jian Cui , Guo-Wang Du , Xin-Zhong Er , Chu-Xiang Li , Jun-Fan Hou , Yu-Xin Xin , Xiang-kun Liu , Xiao-Wei Liu

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are of interest in many cosmological contexts. PBHs lighter than about 1012 kg are predicted to be directly detectable by their Hawking radiation. This radiation should produce both a diffuse extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-05 Jane H MacGibbon , Tilan N. Ukwatta , J. T. Linnemann , S. S. Marinelli , D. Stump , K. Tollefson

The search for exoplanets is an active field in astronomy, with direct imaging as one of the most challenging methods due to faint exoplanet signals buried within stronger residual starlight. Successful detection requires advanced image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Théo Bodrito , Olivier Flasseur , Julien Mairal , Jean Ponce , Maud Langlois , Anne-Marie Lagrange

The Earth's atmospheric turbulence degrades the precision of ground-based astrometry. Here, we discuss these limitations and propose that, with proper treatment of systematics and by leveraging the many epochs available from the Korean…

A generation method of new metric in the case of static spherically symmetric space-time is derived. Using this approach, we construct a metric which describes Euler-Heisenberg black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-14 Shi-Jie Ma , Rui-Bo Wang , Jian-Bo Deng , Xian-Ru Hu

With the help of CUDA high-performance numerical codes exploited in machine learning, we investigate the shadow aspect of new rotating and charged black holes using the Dunkl derivative formalism. Precisely, we first establish the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Saad Eddine Baddis , Adil Belhaj , Hajar Belmahi , Maryem Jemri
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