Conveners
Wednesday morning
- Krzysztof Nalewajko (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, PAS, Warsaw, Poland)
Wednesday morning
- Krzysztof Nalewajko (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, PAS, Warsaw, Poland)
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Hector Raul Olivares Sánchez (Universidade de Aveiro)07/05/2025, 09:30Numerical simulationsReview talk
Developments in observing technology have produced the first event-horizon-scale images of accreting supermassive black holes. The interpretation of such observations relies on sizable libraries of synthetic data produced from general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations. This approach has provided considerable insight into these systems, but also suffers from some limitations....
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Oliver Porth (Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam)07/05/2025, 10:00Compact starsReview talk
The time-variable (in particular pulsed-) emission from black holes and neutron stars holds key information on the nature of curved spacetime and ultra dense nuclear matter. However, due to the complex plasma dynamics at play, the interpretation of the observed signals is difficult. I will present some recent work on modeling general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic processes around black...
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Debora Lančová07/05/2025, 10:30AccretionStandard talk
A widely accepted picture of an accretion flow in the luminous soft spectral state of X-ray binary systems is a geometrically thin disc structure much like the classic analytic thin disc model of Shakura & Sunyaev. Although the analytic models are troubled by instabilities, they are successfully used to interpret observational data. I will present the results of general relativistic radiative...
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Gibwa Musoke (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)07/05/2025, 12:15Numerical simulationsReview talk
Black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs) and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) transition through a series of accretion states in a well-defined order. The accretion states, each associated with different luminosities, spectral and variability characteristics, quasi periodic oscillations (QPOs) and outflow properties, are thought to be triggered by physical changes in the accretion disk around the...
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