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Polarization Signatures of Inspiraling Hotspots around Kerr Black Holes

Pablo Ruales, Delilah E. A. Gates, Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano · 2026

Polarimetric interferometry is a powerful tool for probing both black hole accretion physics and the background spacetime. Current models aimed at explaining the observed multiwavelength flares in Sgr…

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Gradus.jl: spacetime-agnostic general relativistic ray-tracing for X-ray spectral modelling

Fergus J. E. Baker, Andrew J. Young · 2025

We introduce Gradus.jl, an open-source and publicly available general relativistic ray-tracing toolkit for spectral modelling in arbitrary spacetimes. Our software is written in the Julia programming …

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A correction tensor for approximating drag on slow-moving particles of arbitrary shape

Duncan A. Lockerby · 2025

A new form of the Cunningham correction factor is presented that requires no experimental fitting. It is expanded to provide a predictive heuristic for non-spherical particles, via definition of a "co…

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Quantum and classical query complexities for determining connectedness of matroids

Xiaowei Huang, Shiguang Feng, Lvzhou Li · 2023

Connectivity is a fundamental structural property of matroids, and has been studied algorithmically over 50 years. In 1974, Cunningham proposed a deterministic algorithm consuming $O(n^{2})$ queries t…

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Randomized adiabatic quantum linear solver algorithm with optimal complexity scaling and detailed running costs

David Jennings, Matteo Lostaglio, Sam Pallister, Andrew T Sornborger, Yigit Subas{i} · 2023

Solving linear systems of equations is a fundamental problem with a wide variety of applications across many fields of science, and there is increasing effort to develop quantum linear solver algorith…

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Modelling drag coefficients of ellipsoidal particles in rarefied flow conditions

C. Livi, G. Di Staso, H. J. H. Clercx, F. Toschi · 2022

The importance of accurately capturing two-way coupled interactions between particles with complex shapes and rarefied gas flows is rapidly rising in different practical applications such as aerospace…

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Master Functions and Equations for Perturbations of Vacuum Spherically-Symmetric Spacetimes

Michele Lenzi, Carlos F. Sopuerta · 2021

Perturbation theory of vacuum spherically-symmetric spacetimes is a crucial tool to understand the dynamics of black hole perturbations. Spherical symmetry allows for an expansion of the perturbations…

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Quantization of Gravity in Spherical Harmonic Basis

Renata Kallosh · 2021

We perform canonical quantization of gravity in the background of a Schwarzschild black hole in the generalized Regge-Wheeler gauge proposed in \cite{Kallosh:2021ors}. We find that the Hamiltonian at …

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Microscopic force for aerosol transport

Nils Roth, Muhamed Amin, Amit K. Samanta, Jochen Kupper · 2020

A key ingredient for single particle diffractive imaging experiments is the successful and efficient delivery of sample. Current sample-delivery methods are based on aerosol injectors in which the sam…

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XSPEC model for testing the Kerr black hole hypothesis using the continuum-fitting method

Menglei Zhou, Askar B. Abdikamalov, Dimitry Ayzenberg, Cosimo Bambi, Honghui Liu, Sourabh Nampalliwar · 2019

We present NKBB, an XSPEC model for the thermal spectrum of thin accretion disks in parametric black hole spacetimes. We employ the Novikov-Thorne model for the description of the accretion disk and t…

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Linear Stability of Higher Dimensional Schwarzschild Spacetimes: Decay of Master Quantities

Pei-Ken Hung, Jordan Keller, Mu-Tao Wang · 2018

In this paper, we study solutions to the linearized vacuum Einstein equations centered at higher-dimensional Schwarzschild met- rics. We employ Hodge decomposition to split solutions into scalar, co-v…

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Multipolar gravitational waveforms and ringdowns generated during the plunge from the innermost stable circular orbit into a Schwarzschild black hole

Antoine Folacci, Mohamed Ould El Hadj · 2018

We study the gravitational radiation emitted by a massive point particle plunging from slightly below the innermost stable circular orbit into a Schwarzschild black hole. We consider both even- and od…

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Unbound motion on a Schwarzschild background: Practical approaches to frequency domain computations

Seth Hopper · 2017

Gravitational perturbations due to a point particle moving on a static black hole background are naturally described in Regge-Wheeler gauge. The first-order field equations reduce to a single master w…

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Testing the Kerr black hole hypothesis using X-ray reflection spectroscopy

Cosimo Bambi, Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano, Thomas Dauser, Javier A. Garcia, Sourabh Nampalliwar · 2016

We present the first X-ray reflection model for testing the assumption that the metric of astrophysical black holes is described by the Kerr solution. We employ the formalism of the transfer function …

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New M, L, and T Dwarf Companions to Nearby Stars from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

Kevin L. Luhman, Nicholas P. Loutrel, Nicholas S. McCurdy, Gregory N. Mace, Nicole D. Melso, Kimberly M. Star, Michael D. Young, Ryan C. Terrien, Ian S. McLean, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Katherine L. Rhode · 2012

We present 11 candidate late-type companions to nearby stars identified with data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). Eight of the candidates…

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Ambiguous Red Shifts

Carl E. Wulfman · 2010

A one-parameter conformal invariance of Maxwell's equations allows the wavelengths of electromagnetic waves to change as they propagate, and do so even in otherwise field-free space. This produces an …

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Radio and X-ray Observations of the Type Ic SN 2007gr Reveal an Ordinary, Non-relativistic Explosion

Alicia M. Soderberg, Andreas Brunthaler, Ehud Nakar, Roger A. Chevalier, Michael F. Bietenholz · 2010

We present extensive radio and X-ray observations of the nearby Type Ic SN 2007gr in NGC 1058 obtained with the Very Large Array and the Chandra X-ray Observatory and spanning 5 to 150 days after expl…

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ULAS J141623.94+134836.3: a Blue T Dwarf Companion to a Blue L Dwarf

Adam J. Burgasser (UCSD/MIT), Dagny L. Looper (U. Hawaii), John T. Rayner (U. Hawaii) · 2010

We confirm the substellar nature of ULAS J141623.94+134836.3, a common proper motion companion to the blue L dwarf SDSS J141624.08+134826.7 identified by Burningham et al. and Scholz. Low-resolution 0…

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Spin Sum Rules at Low $Q^2$

Jian-ping Chen · 2009

Recent precision spin-structure data from Jefferson Lab have significantly advanced our knowledge of nucleon structure at low $Q^2$. Results on the neutron spin sum rules and polarizabilities in the l…

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VLBI Polarisation with the Yebes (EVN) and Hobart (LBA) antennae

R. Dodson · 2009

Work has been on-going for the development of the required code for full polarisation processing of VLBI data using some new antennae mounts. The extensions of AIPS allows the support of two new mount…

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