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Proceedings, Volume 17, Issue 1

RPRA 2019 2019 - 15 articles

Recent Progress in Relativistic Astrophysics

Fudan University, Shanghai, China | 6–8 May 2019

Volume Editors:
Cosimo Bambi, Fudan University, China
Sourabh Nampalliwar, Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

Cover Story: Black holes and neutron stars are the most extreme objects that can be found today in the Universe and ideal laboratories for testing fundamental physics. Thanks to new observations facilities, in the past 20 years there has been tremendous progress in our understanding of these objects and of their astrophysical environment. Recent detections of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo experiments and the first image of a black hole by EHT have presented new opportunities to study these systems. While some questions have been addressed, others are still open, and new questions have arisen. The aim of this volume is to review recent progress in relativistic astrophysics and to outline future directions.
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Articles (15)

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,470 Views
10 Pages

The search for periodic signals from blazars has become an actively pursued field of research in recent years. This is because periodic signals bring us information about the processes occurring near the innermost regions of blazars, which are mostly...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,218 Views
10 Pages

The continuous X-ray flux of stellar-mass black holes provides an excellent source of data to learn about the astrophysics of accretion disks and about the spacetime itself. The extraction of information, however, depends heavily on our ability to co...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,615 Views
24 Pages

Properties of charged particle motion in the field of magnetized black holes (BHs) imply four possible regimes of behavior of ionized Keplerian disks: survival in regular epicyclic motion, transformation into chaotic toroidal state, destruction due t...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,209 Views
5 Pages

Accretion Disc Thermal Reverberation in the Lamp Post Geometry

  • Iossif E. Papadakis,
  • Elias S. Kammoun and
  • Michal Dovčiak

We present results regarding the disc response functions and the corresponding time lags assuming a standard Novikov–Thorne accretion disc illuminated by a point-like X-ray source. We took into account all relativistic effects in the light prop...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,335 Views
7 Pages

Testing Gravity Theory With Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals: Recent Progress

  • Shucheng Yang,
  • Shuo Xin,
  • Chen Zhang and
  • Wenbiao Han

A compact object captured by a supermassive black hole, named as extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI), is one of the most important gravitational wave sources for low-frequency interferometers such as LISA, Taiji, and TianQin. EMRIs can be used to accu...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,439 Views
10 Pages

TV Cassiopeiae with Chandra and XMM–Newton X-ray Observations

  • Jun Yang,
  • Jeremy J. Drake,
  • Daniel R. Wik and
  • Silas G. T. Laycock

TV Cassiopeia (TV Cas) is a well-known eclipsing Algol-type binary comprising a B9V primary and F7 IV secondary in an orbit with a period of 1.81 days, together with a purported low-mass companion in a wide orbit. Despite the considerable attention T...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,499 Views
6 Pages

A New Chapter in Hard X-rays of the M87 AGN

  • Ka-Wah Wong,
  • Rodrigo S. Nemmen,
  • Jimmy A. Irwin and
  • Dacheng Lin

The nearby M87 hosts an exceptional relativistic jet. It has been regularly monitored in radio to TeV bands, but little has been done in hard X-rays ≳10 keV. For the first time, we have successfully detected hard X-rays up to 40 keV from its X-ray co...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,801 Views
6 Pages

Discovery of Jet-Induced Soft Lags of XTE J1550-564 during Its 1998 Outburst

  • Arka Chatterjee,
  • Broja G. Dutta,
  • Dusmanta Patra,
  • Sandip K. Chakrabarti and
  • Prantik Nandi

X-ray time lags are complicated in nature. The exact reasons for complex lag spectra are as yet unknown. However, the hard lags, in general, are believed to be originated due to inverse Comptonization process. However, the origin of soft lags remaine...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,448 Views
9 Pages

RELXILL_NK: A Black Hole Relativistic Reflection Model for Testing General Relativity

  • Askar B. Abdikamalov,
  • Dimitry Ayzenberg,
  • Cosimo Bambi  and
  • Sourabh Nampalliwar

In this paper, we briefly present RELXILL_NK, the first and currently only readily available model of the relativistic reflection spectrum of black hole accretion disks that includes non-Kerr solutions for the black hole spacetime, thus allowing for...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,362 Views
16 Pages

Boosted Kerr Black Hole in the Presence of Plasma

  • Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego and
  • Ahmadjon-Abdujabbarov Abdujabbarov

In this work, we obtain the deflection angle for a boosted Kerr black hole in the weak field approximation using the optics in a curved spacetime developed by J. L. Synge in 1960. We study the behavior of light in the presence of plasma by considerin...

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