Studying the vicinity of Sgr A*: spin, flares and alternative compact objects

2013/09/B/ST9/00060

Keywords

Compact objects - Accretion processes - Radiative processes - Ray tracing

Descriptors

ST9_12: Astrofizyka relatywistyczna - procesy wokół obiektów zwartych (białych karłów, gwiazd neutronowych i czarnych dziur)
ST9_11: Astrofizyka wysokich energii - promieniowanie rentgenowskie i gamma, promienie kosmiczne, neutrina

Panel

ST9 – Astronomy and space science: astrophysics, astrochemistry, astrobiology, solar system, planetary systems, stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, space science, instrumentation

Host institution

Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika PAN

Voivodeship: mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution)

dr Frederic H Vincent

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call

OPUS 5 – announced on 2013-03-15

Amount awarded: 195 900 PLN
Project start date: 2014-04-01
Project end date: 2016-03-31
Project duration: 24 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

Monitor + Laptop. Cost: 9 388 PLN

Information in the final report

Publication in academic press/journals (7)

Quasi-periodic oscillations from relativistic ray-traced hydrodynamical tori

Authors:
Mishra, B.; Vincent, F. H.; Manousakis, A.; Fragile, P. C.; Paumard, T.; Kluźniak, W.

Academic press:
MNRAS (year: 2017, volume: 467, pages: 4036-4049), Publisher: Oxford Journals

Status:
Published

DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stx299 – link to the publication
A magnetized torus for modeling Sagittarius A* millimeter images and spectra

Authors:
Vincent, F. H.; Yan, W.; Straub, O.; Zdziarski, A. A.; Abramowicz, M. A.

Academic press:
Astronomy and Astrophysics (year: 2015, volume: 574, pages: A48), Publisher: EDP Sciences

Status:
Published

DOI:
10.1051/0004-6361/201424306 – link to the publication
X-ray-binary spectra in the lamp post model

Authors:
Vincent, F. H.; Rozanska, A.; Zdziarski, A. A.; Madej, J.

Academic press:
A&A (year: 2016, volume: 590, pages: A132), Publisher: EDPSciences

Status:
Published

DOI:
10.1051/0004-6361/201628408 – link to the publication
Impact of inclination on quasi-periodic oscillations from spiral structures

Authors:
Varniere, P.; Vincent, F. H.

Academic press:
A&A (year: 2016, volume: 591, pages: A36), Publisher: EDPSciences

Status:
Published

DOI:
10.1051/0004-6361/201527711 – link to the publication
Oscillations of radiation pressure supported tori near black holes

Authors:
Mazur, Grzegorz P.; Zanotti, Olindo; Sądowski, Aleksander; Mishra, Bhupendra; Kluźniak, Wlodek

Academic press:
MNRAS (year: 2016, volume: 456, pages: 3245-3252), Publisher: Oxford Journals

Status:
Published

DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stv2890 – link to the publication
Circular geodesics and thick tori around rotating boson stars

Authors:
Meliani, Z.; Vincent, F. H.; Grandclément, P.; Gourgoulhon, E.; Monceau-Baroux, R.; Straub, O.

Academic press:
Classical and Quantum Gravity (year: 2015, volume: 32, pages: 235022 (17pp)), Publisher: IOPScience

Status:
Published

DOI:
10.1088/0264-9381/32/23/235022 – link to the publication
Imaging a boson star at the Galactic center

Authors:
Vincent, F. H.; Meliani, Z.; Grandclement, P.; Gourgoulhon, E.; Straub, O.

Academic press:
Classical and Quantum Gravity (year: 2016, volume: 33, pages: 105015 (19pp)), Publisher: IOPScience

Status:
Published

DOI:
10.1088/0264-9381/33/10/105015 – link to the publication

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