Electromagnetic counterparts to massive black-hole mergers

T Bogdanović, MC Miller, L Blecha - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2022 - Springer
The next two decades are expected to open the door to the first coincident detections of
electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational-wave (GW) signatures associated with massive …

Numerical relativity and astrophysics

L Lehner, F Pretorius - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Throughout the Universe many powerful events are driven by strong gravitational effects that
require general relativity to fully describe them. These include compact binary mergers …

Binary black hole accretion from a circumbinary disk: gas dynamics inside the central cavity

BD Farris, P Duffell, AI MacFadyen… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamical simulations of circumbinary
disk accretion using the finite-volume code DISCO. This code solves the 2D viscous Navier …

Circumbinary magnetohydrodynamic accretion into inspiraling binary black holes

SC Noble, BC Mundim, H Nakano… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We have simulated the magnetohydrodynamic evolution of a circumbinary disk surrounding
an equal-mass binary comprising two non-spinning black holes during the period in which …

MeerKAT uncovers the physics of an odd radio circle

RP Norris, JD Collier, RM Crocker… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Odd radio circles (ORCs) are recently-discovered faint diffuse circles of radio emission, of
unknown cause, surrounding galaxies at moderate redshift (z∼ 0.2–0.6). Here, we present …

Remnant mass, spin, and recoil from spin aligned black-hole binaries

J Healy, CO Lousto, Y Zlochower - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
We perform a set of 36 nonprecessing black-hole binary simulations with spins either
aligned or counteraligned with the orbital angular momentum in order to model the final …

Electromagnetic emission from supermassive binary black holes approaching merger

S d'Ascoli, SC Noble, DB Bowen… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first relativistic prediction of the electromagnetic emission from the
surrounding gas of a supermassive binary black hole system approaching merger. Using a …

Multiband light curves from eccentric accreting supermassive black hole binaries

JR Westernacher-Schneider, J Zrake, A MacFadyen… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We use long-run, high-resolution hydrodynamics simulations to compute the
multiwavelength light curves (LCs) from thermal disk emission around accreting equal-mass …

Numerical relativity of compact binaries in the 21st century

MD Duez, Y Zlochower - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the dramatic progress in the simulations of compact objects and compact-object
binaries that has taken place in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This includes …

Binary black-hole mergers in magnetized disks: simulations in full general relativity

BD Farris, R Gold, V Paschalidis, ZB Etienne… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
We present results from the first fully general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)
simulations of an equal-mass black-hole binary (BHBH) in a magnetized, circumbinary …