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It is widely accepted that strong and variable radiation detected over all accessible energy bands in a number of active galaxies arises from a relativistic, Doppler-boosted jet pointing close to our line of sight. The size of the emitting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 LAT Collaboration , members of the 3C 279 multi-band campaign

We perform several black-hole binary evolutions using fully nonlinear numerical relativity techniques at separations large enough that low-order post-Newtonian expansions are expected to be accurate. As a case study, we evolve an equal-mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-04 Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

Structures of radio galaxies have the potential to reveal inconstancy in the axis of the beams, which reflect the stability in the spin axis of the supermassive black hole at the centre. We present radio observations of the giant radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 L. Saripalli , J. M. Malarecki , R. Subrahmanyan , D. H. Jones , L. Staveley-Smith

We draw the multimessenger picture of J1048+7143, a flat-spectrum radio quasar known to show quasi-periodic oscillations in the $\gamma$-ray regime. We generate the adaptively-binned Fermi Large Area Telescope light curve of this source…

We investigate dynamical and radiative properties of arc-shaped gas clouds falling onto a stellar mass black hole based on the three-dimensional general relativistic radiation-magnetohydrodynamics (3D-GRRMHD) simulation data. Assuming that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Kotaro Moriyama , Shin Mineshige , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi

When galaxies merge, the supermassive black holes in their centers may form binaries and, during the process of merger, emit low-frequency gravitational radiation in the process. In this paper we consider the galaxy 3C66B, which was used as…

Accreting binaries containing a black hole are stellar systems composed of a normal star and a black hole. Because of the strong gravitational pull of the black hole, matter is removed from the companion star and falls into the compact ob…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-05 Tomaso M. Belloni

We present an optical, X-ray, and radio analysis of the starburst in the Abell 1835 cluster's central cD galaxy. The dense gas surrounding the galaxy is radiating X-rays with a luminosity of ~1E45 erg/s consistent with a cooling rate of…

Long-period radio transients are an emerging class of extreme astrophysical events of which only three are known. These objects emit highly polarised, coherent pulses of typically a few tens of seconds duration and minutes to hour-long…

We employ a length-dependent conical jet model for the jet structure and emission properties of flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 in the steady state. In the model, ultra-relativistic leptons are injected at the base of jet and propagate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-21 Y. G. Zheng , C. Y. Yang

The blazar 3C454.3 exhibited a strong flare seen in gamma-rays, X-rays, and optical/NIR bands during 3--12 December 2009. Emission in the V and J bands rose more gradually than did the gamma-rays and soft X-rays, though all peaked at nearly…

Galaxy mergers produce supermassive black hole binaries, which emit gravitational waves prior to their coalescence. We perform three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations to study the tidal disruption of stars by such a binary in the final…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-18 Kimitake Hayasaki , Abraham Loeb

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are rapid, recurring X-ray bursts from supermassive black holes, believed to result from interactions between accretion disks and surrounding matter. The galaxy SDSS1335+0728, previously stable for two…

Due to coherent superradiant amplification, massive bosonic fields can trigger an instability in spinning black holes, tapping their energy and angular momentum and forming macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensates around them. This phenomenon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-22 Oscar J. C. Dias , Giuseppe Lingetti , Paolo Pani , Jorge E. Santos

In the context of black hole spin in X-ray binaries, we propose that certain type of quasi-period oscillations (QPOs) observed in the light curves of black hole binaries (BHBs) are produced by X-ray modulation at the precession frequency of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Wei Cui , S. N. Zhang , Wan Chen

We study the time dependent properties of sub-Keplerian viscous accretion flow around the black holes. We find that rotating matter feels centrifugal barrier on the way towards the black holes and eventually, shock transition is triggered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-20 Santabrata Das , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Aunj Nandi

The unique microquasar SS433 is a massive X-ray binary system at an advanced evolutionary stage. The optical star overflows its Roche lobe and transfers mass at a very high rate onto a black hole surrounded by a supercritical accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 A. M. Cherepashchuk , A. V. Dodin , K. A. Postnov

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHs) are expected to result from galaxy mergers, and thus are natural byproducts (and probes) of hierarchical structure formation in the Universe. They are also the primary expected source of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Lile Wang , Jenny E. Greene , Wenhua Ju , Roman R. Rafikov , John J. Ruan , Donald P. Schneider

Pulsar timing measurements can be used to detect gravitational radiation from massive black hole binaries. The ~106d quasi-periodic flux variations in Sagittarius A* at radio wavelengths reported by Zhao, Bower, & Goss (2001) may be due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Andrea N. Lommen , Donald C. Backer

We present high angular resolution multi-wavelength data of the 3C 298 radio-loud quasar host galaxy (z=1.439) taken using the W.M. Keck Observatory OSIRIS integral field spectrograph with adaptive optics, Atacama Large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 Andrey Vayner , Shelley A. Wright , Norman Murray , Lee Armus , James E. Larkin , Etsuko Mieda