Yosuke Mizuno @ ITP/Goethe Univ.

Text circle "Black Hole Astrophysics"

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Black Hole Astrophysics - The Engine Paradigm -
David L. Meier (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2012
[HP]

Schedule & Presentations

1st Meeting, August 1st, 2013 (Thu), Chapter 1.1 - 2.2 [PPT] [PDF]
2nd Meeting, August 8th, 2013 (Thu), Chapter 2.3 - 2.6 [PPT] [PDF]
3rd Meeting, August 15th, 2013 (Thu), Chapter 3.1 - 3.5 [PPT] [PDF]
4th Meeting, August 22th, 2013 (Thu), Chapter 3.6 [PPT] [PDF] & Chapter 4.1 - 4.6 [PPT] [PDF]
5th Meeting, September 30th, 2013 (Mon), Chapter 6.1 - 6.3 [PPT] [PDF]
6th Meeting, October 7th, 2013 (Mon), Chapter 6.4 - 6.5 [PPT] [PDF]
7th Meeting, October 14th, 2013 (Mon), Chapter 6.6 - 7.1 [PPT] [PDF]
8th Meeting, October 28th, 2013 (Mon), Chapter 6.5.2, 6.6.2.2, 7.1 - 7.3 [PPT] [PDF]
9th Meeting, November 11th, 2013 (Mon), Chapter 7.4 [PPT] [PDF]
10th Meeting, November 18th, 2013 (Mon), Chapter 7.5 [PPT] [PDF]
11th Meeting, November 25th, 2013 (Mon), Chapter 9.1 - 9.2.1 [PPT] [PDF]
12th Meeting, December 2nd, 2013 (Mon), Chapter 9.3 [PPT] [PDF]
13th Meeting, December 9th, 2013 (Mon), Chapter 9.2.2, 9.4 [PPT] [PDF]
14th Meeting, December 16th, 2013 (Mon), Chapter 13.1 - 13.1.2.2 [PPT] [PDF]

News Section (Introduced papers)

• September 30th, 2013


1. Santana et al. "Magnetic Fields in Relativistic Collisionless Shocks", arXiv:1309.3277
2. Penna et al. "A New Wquilibrium Torus Solution and GRMHD Initial Conditions", arXiv:1309.3680
3. Barkov et al. "A Multi-Dimensional Numerical Scheme for Two-Fuid Relativistic MHD", arXiv:1309.5221
4. Brenneman "Measuring Supermassive Black Hole Spins in Active Galactic Nuclei", arXiv:1309.6334
5. Pavan et al. "The Helical Jet of IGR J11014-6103: Echoes of a Core-Collapse Supernova", arXiv:1309.6792


• October 7th, 2013


1. Buhler & Blandford "The Crab Pulsar Wind Nebula: Our Laboratory of the Non-Thermal Universe", arXiv:1309.7046 (review)
2. Fong et al. "Short GRB130603B: Discovery of a Jet Break in the Optical and Radio Afterglows, and a Mysterious Late-Time X-Ray Excess", arXiv:1309.7479
3. Li et al. "Evidence for a Parsec-scale Jet from the Galactic Center Black Hole: Interaction with Local Gas", arXiv1310.0146
4. Hada et al. "Evidence for Nuclear Radio Jet and Its Structure Down to <100 Schwarzschild Radii in the Center of the Sombrero Galaxy (M 104, NGC 4594)", arXiv:1310.0488


• October 14th, 2013


1. Hayashida et al. "Discovery of GeV Emission from the Circinus Galaxy with the Fermi-LAT", arXiv:1310.1913
2. Treister et al. "New Observational Constraints on the Growth of the First Supermassive Black Holes", arXiv:1310.2249
3. Porth et al. "Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of the Crab Nebula", arXiv:1310.2531
4. Zhang et al."How Long does a Burst Burst?", arXiv:1310.2540


• October 21th, 2013


1. Caprioli & Spitkovsky "Simulations of Ion Acceleration at Non-Relativistic Shocks: i) Acceleration Efficiency", arXiv:1310.2943
2. Jin et al. "Is the Late Near-Infrared Bump in Short-Hard GRB 130603B due to the Li-Paczynski Kilonova?", arXiv:1310.3008
3. Huntington et al. "Observation of Magnetic Field Generation via the Weibel Instability in Interpenetrating Plasma Flows", arXiv:1310.3337
4. Tomsick et al. "The Reflection Component from Cygnus X-1 in the Soft State Measured by NuSTAR and Suzaku", arXiv:1310.3830
5. Page et al. "The Suppression of Star Formation by Powerful Active Galactic Nuclei", arXiv:1310.4147


• October 28th, 2013


1. Zhang "A Possible FRB/GRB Connection: Towards a Multi-Wavelength Campaign to Unveil the Nature of Fast Radio Bursts", arXiv:1310.4893
2. Contopoulos et al. "A New Standard Pulsar Magnetosphere", arXiv:1310.4931
3. Boer et al. "Are Ultra-Long Gamma-Ray Bursts Different?", arXiv:1310.4944
4. Rueda-Becerril et al. "The Influence of the Magnetic Field on the Spectral Properties of Blazars", arXiv:1310.5441
5. Casadio et al. "A Sensitive Study of the Peculiar Jet Structure HST-1 in M87", arXiv:1310.6312


• November 4th, 2013


1. Gallo et al. "V4641 Sgr: A Candidate Precessing Microblazar", arXiv:1310.7032
2. Bietenholz et al. "Radio Limits on Off-axis GRB Afterglows and VLBI Observations of SN 2003gk", arXiv:1310.7171
3. Peters et al. "Morphologies of Protostellar Out Flows: an ALMA View", arXiv:1310.7356
4. Matzner et al. "Oblique Shock Breakout in Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts: I. Dynamics and Observational Implications", arXiv:1310.7576
5. Aliu et al. "Multiwavelength Observations of The TeV Binary LS I +61 303 with VERITAS, Fermi-LAT and Swift-XRT During a TeV Outburst", arXiv:1310.7913


• November 11th, 2013


1. Lyne et al. "Evolution of the Magnetic Field Structure of the Crab Pulsar", arXiv:1311.0408
2. Reeves et al. "Variability of the High Velocity Outflow in the Quasar PDS 456", arXiv:1311.0734
3. Asano et al. "Time-Dependent Models for Blazar Emissions with the Second-Order Fermi Acceleration", arXiv:1311.0936
4. Barniol Duran "Constraining the Magnetic Field in GRB Relativistic Collisionless Shocks Using Radio Data", arXiv:1311.1216
5. Tsutsui & Shigeyama "On the Subclasses in Swift Long Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Clue to Different Central Engines", arXiv:1311.1295


• November 18th, 2013


1. Nynka et al. "High-Energy X-rays from J174545.5-285829, the Cannonball: A Candidate Pulsar Wind Nebula Associated with Sgr A East", arXiv:1311.1832
2. Liu et al. "An Hourglass Model for the Flare of HST-1 in M87", arXiv:1311.2457
3. Cerutti et al. "Three-Dimensional Relativistic Pair Plasma Reconnection with Radiative Feedback in the Crab Nebula", arXiv:1311.2605
4. Rea et al. "3XMM J1852+0033: Another Low Magnetic Field Magnetar", arXiv:1311.3091
5. Pavlidou et al. "The RoboPol Optical Polarization Survey of Gamma-Ray-Loud Blazars", arXiv:1311.3304
6. Trigo et al. "Baryons in the Relativistic Jets of the Stellar-Mass Black-Hole Candidate 4U1630-47", Nature, vol. 504, pp.260-262


• November 25th, 2013


1. Gardner & Done "What Powers the Most Relativistic Jets? I: BL Lacs", arXiv:1311.4320
2. Kunz et al. "Pegasus: A New Hybrid-Kinetic Particle-in-Cell Code for Astrophysical Plasma Dynamics", arXiv:1311.4865
3. Cseh et al. "Unveiling Recurrent Jets of the ULX Holmberg II X-1: Evidence for a Massive Stellar-Mass Black Hole?", arXiv:1311.4867


• December 2nd, 2013


1. Cielo et al. "3D Simulations of the Early Stages of AGN Jets: Geometry, Thermodynamics and Backflow", arXiv:1311.5562
2. Broderick et al. "Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Event Horizon Telescope Observations of Sagittarius A*", arXiv:1311.5564
3. Ackermann et al. "Fermi-LAT Observations of the Gamma-ray Burst GRB 130427A", arXiv:1311.5623
4. Bell "Particle Acceleration by Shocks in Supernova Remnants", arXiv:1311.5779 (review)
5. Bucciantini "Review of the Theory of PulsarWind Nebulae", arXiv:1311.5783 (review)
6. Panaitescu et al. "An External-Shock Model for GRB Afterglow 130427A", arXiv:1311.5867
7. Sadowski et al. "Numerical Simulations of Super-Critical Black Hole Accretion Flows in General Relativity", arXiv:1311.5900
8. Riffel et al. "An Outflow Perpendicular to the Radio Jet in the Seyfert Nucleus of NGC5929", arXiv:1311.6142


• December 9th, 2013


1. Blasi "The Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays", arXiv:1311.7346 (review)
2. Marscher "Turbulent, Extreme Multi-Zone Model for Simulating Flux and Polarization Variability in Blazars", arXiv:1311.7665
3. Liu et al. "Puzzling Accretion onto a Black Hole in the Ultraluminous X-Ray Source M101 ULX-1", arXiv:1312.0337
4. Ma et al. "Relationship Between the Kinetic Power and Bolometric Luminosity of Jets: limitation from black hole X-ray binaries, active galactic nuclei, and gamma-ray bursts", arXiv:1312.0504
5. Gold et al. "Accretion Disks around Binary Black Holes of Unequal Mass: GRMHD Simulations near Decoupling", arXiv:1312.0600
6. Guan et al. "Relativistic MHD Simulations of Poynting Flux-Driven Jets", arXiv:1312.0661
7. Gaur et al. "Anti-correlated Optical Flux and Polarization Variability in BL Lac", arXiv:1312.0939


• December 16th, 2013


1. Dexter et al. "Transient Jet Formation and State Transitions from Large-Scale Magnetic Reconnection in Black Hole Accretion Discs", arXiv:1312.1691
2. Nemmen et al. "Spectral Models for Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei in LINERs: The Role of Advection-dominated Accretion and Jets", arXiv:1312.1982
3. Wellons et al. "A High-Frequency Doppler Feature in the Power Spectra of Simulated GRMHD Black Hole Accretion Disks", arXiv:1312.3333


• December 23th, 2013


1. Pacciani et al. "Exploring the Blazar Zone in High Energy Flares of FSRQs", arXiv:1312.3998
2. Philippov & Spitkovsky "Ab-initio Pulsar Magnetosphere: Three-Dimensional Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Axisymmetric Pulsars", arXiv:1312.4970


• December 30th, 2013


1. McKinney et al. "Three-Dimensional General Relativistic Radiation Magnetohydrodynamical Simulation of Super-Eddington Accretion, Using a New Code HARMRAD with M1 Closure", arXiv:1312.6127
2. Cho & Lazarian "Imbalanced Relativistic Force-Free Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence", arXiv:1312.6128
3. Zanotti "A Model for an Optically Thick Torus in Thermal Equilibrium around a Black Hole", arXiv:1312.6822
4. Narayan & McClintock "Observational Evidence for Black Holes", arXiv:1312.6698 (review)


• January 13th, 2014


1. Ransom et al. "A Millisecond Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System", arXiv:1401.0535
2. Cheung et al. "Fermi-LAT Detection of Gravitational Lens Delayed Gamma-ray Flares from Blazar B0218+357", arXiv:1401.0548
3. Yuan & Narayan "Hot Accretion Flows Around Black Holes", arXiv:1401.0586 (review)
4. Yokoi et al. "Transport Enhancement and Suppression in Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection: A Self-Consistent Turbulence Model", arXiv:1401.1498
5. Fabian et al. "On the Determination of the Spin and Disc Truncation of Accreting Black Holes Using X-Ray Reflection", arXiv:1401.1615
6. Bernardini et al. "A Magnetar Powering the Ordinary Monster GRB 130427A?", arXiv:1401.1972


• January 27th, 2014


1. Cao "The Outflows Accelerated by the Magnetic Fields and Radiation Force of Accretion Disks", arXiv:1401.2320
2. Meszaros & Rees "Gamma-Ray Bursts", arXiv:1401.3012 (review)
3. Cerutti et al. "Gamma-ray flares in the Crab Nebula: A case of relativistic reconnection?", arXiv:1401.3016
4. King et al. "The Disk Wind in the Rapidly Spinning Stellar-Mass Black Hole 4U 1630-472 Observed with NuSTAR",arXiv:1401.3646
5. Kouveliotou et al. "Enduring Quests-Daring Visions (NASA Astrophysics in the Next Three Decades)", arXiv:1401.3741 (roadmap for NASA)
6. Bugli et al. "Dynamo Action in Thick Disks around Kerr Black Holes: High-Order Resistive GRMHD Simulations", arXiv:1401.4060
7. Uzdensky & Rightley "Plasma Physics of Extreme Astrophysical Environments", arXiv:1401.5110 (review)
8. Sironi & Spitkovsky "Relativistic Reconnection: an Efficient Source of Non-Thermal Particles", arXiv:1401.5471
9. Brian's presentaton, "Core Shift and Shock Flare in Relativistic Jets" [PPT1], [PPT2], [PPT3]