Search Results - "BRODERICK, Avery E"
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THE COSMOLOGICAL IMPACT OF LUMINOUS TeV BLAZARS. I. IMPLICATIONS OF PLASMA INSTABILITIES FOR THE INTERGALACTIC MAGNETIC FIELD AND EXTRAGALACTIC GAMMA-RAY BACKGROUND
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-06-2012)“…Inverse Compton cascades (ICCs) initiated by energetic gamma rays (E [> ~] 100 GeV) enhance the GeV emission from bright, extragalactic TeV sources. The…”
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Constraining the Existence of Axion Clouds in M87 with Closure Trace Analyses
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2024)“…Abstract Black holes can amplify incoming bosonic waves via rotational superradiance, inducing bound states of ultralight bosons around them. This phenomenon…”
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Bayesian Constraints on the Ring Ellipticity of M87 2017 Using Themis
Published in The Astrophysical journal (16-08-2024)“…Measuring the properties of black hole images has the potential to constrain deviations from general relativity on horizon scales. Of particular interest is…”
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Autoencoding Labeled Interpolator, Inferring Parameters from Image and Image from Parameters
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2024)“…Abstract The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provides an avenue to study black hole accretion flows on event-horizon scales. Fitting a semianalytical model to…”
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Shadow Implications: What Does Measuring the Photon Ring Imply for Gravity?
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2023)“…Abstract With the imaging and characterization of the horizon-scale images of M87* and Sgr A* by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), it has become possible to…”
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Imaging the Schwarzschild-radius-scale Structure of M87 with the Event Horizon Telescope Using Sparse Modeling
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-03-2017)“…We propose a new imaging technique for radio and optical/infrared interferometry. The proposed technique reconstructs the image from the visibility amplitude…”
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Closure Traces: Novel Calibration-insensitive Quantities for Radio Astronomy
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2020)“…Abstract Closure phases and closure amplitudes have proven critical to modern radio interferometry due to their insensitivity to the uncertain station gains…”
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Photon Rings and Shadow Size for General Axisymmetric and Stationary Integrable Spacetimes
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2024)“…Abstract There are now multiple direct probes of the region near black hole horizons, including direct imaging with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). As a…”
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Reconciling EHT and Gas-dynamics Measurements in M87: Is the Jet Misaligned at Parsec Scales?
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2021)“…Abstract The Event Horizon Telescope mass estimate for M87* is consistent with the stellar dynamics mass estimate and inconsistent with the gas-dynamics mass…”
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Imaging the Black Hole Silhouette of M87: Implications for Jet Formation and Black Hole Spin
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2009)“…The silhouette cast by the horizon of the supermassive black hole in M87 can now be resolved with the emerging millimeter very long baseline interferometry…”
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Variational Image Feature Extraction for the Event Horizon Telescope
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2022)“…Abstract Imaging algorithms form powerful analysis tools for very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data analysis. However, these tools cannot measure…”
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Missing Gamma-Ray Halos and the Need for New Physics in the Gamma-Ray Sky
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2018)“…An intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) stronger than 3 × 10−13 G would explain the lack of a bright, extended degree-scale, GeV-energy inverse Compton…”
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The Scattering and Intrinsic Structure of Sagittarius A at Radio Wavelengths
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2018)“…Radio images of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), are dominated by interstellar scattering. Previous studies of Sgr A* have…”
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Impact of Accretion Flow Dynamics on Gas-dynamical Black Hole Mass Estimates
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-09-2019)“…At low redshift, the majority of supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass estimates are obtained from modeling stellar kinematics or ionized gas dynamics in the…”
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EVIDENCE FOR LOW BLACK HOLE SPIN AND PHYSICALLY MOTIVATED ACCRETION MODELS FROM MILLIMETER-VLBI OBSERVATIONS OF SAGITTARIUS A
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-07-2011)“…Millimeter very long baseline interferometry (mm-VLBI) provides the novel capacity to probe the emission region of a handful of supermassive black holes on…”
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Parsec-scale Faraday Rotation Measures from General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Active Galactic Nucleus Jets
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-12-2010)“…It is now possible to compare global three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) jet formation simulations directly to multi-wavelength…”
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Growth of Beam-Plasma Instabilities in the Presence of Background Inhomogeneity
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-05-2018)“…We explore how inhomogeneity in the background plasma number density alters the growth of electrostatic unstable wavemodes of beam-plasma systems. This is…”
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THE COSMOLOGICAL IMPACT OF LUMINOUS TeV BLAZARS. III. IMPLICATIONS FOR GALAXY CLUSTERS AND THE FORMATION OF DWARF GALAXIES
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-06-2012)“…A subset of blazars are powerful TeV emitters, dominating the extragalactic component of the very high energy gamma-ray universe (E [> ~]100 GeV). These TeV…”
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Jet-Launching Structure Resolved Near the Supermassive Black Hole in M87
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (19-10-2012)“…Approximately 10% of active galactic nuclei exhibit relativistic jets, which are powered by the accretion of matter onto supermassive black holes. Although the…”
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Importance of Resolving the Spectral Support of Beam-plasma Instabilities in Simulations
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-10-2017)“…Many astrophysical plasmas are prone to beam-plasma instabilities. For relativistic and dilute beams, the spectral support of the beam-plasma instabilities is…”
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