• New paper submitted to MNRAS

    Our latest paper entitled “Self-consistent spectra from radiative GRMHD simulations of accretion onto Sgr A*” and presenting our work done on radiative GRMHD simulations of accretion flow has been submitted for publication to MNRAS.

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  • Lorentz Center meeting approved! And other proposals…

    Just found out this week that the Lorentz Center proposal I submitted for a small workshop to bring the Sgr A* XVP collaboration (see post) together in January was accepted!   So that’s good news. I have to admit to being a bit “proposal’d out”, had four deadlines in four weeks basically, the one I just mentioned, plus along with Jacco Vink and others we submitted two proposals for funding for Dutch contributions for the next generation TeV (very high energy gamma-ray) facility, CTA.   Then yesterday was a proposal to the Dutch national science foundation NWO, for a project to develop new jet models for black holes that are linked more self-consistently…

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  • Co-PI

    I am Co-PI of the longest ever campaign on the supermassive black hole in the center of our Galaxy, Sgr A*!  This program, called an “X-ray Visionary Project” for its legacy value, will probe the mechanisms driving high-energy processes around our nearest, and very weak, active galactic nucleus! The campaign is ongoing, so far in just 10% of the observations we have already seen the brightest X-ray flare yet, providing exciting new clues about the plasma and particle acceleration conditions within 10 Schwarzschild radii of the black hole!

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  • Our poster takes top 5 at IAU!

    We were very happy to hear today that one of the students on the astronomy blog “astrobites” has ranked Salomé’s and Samia’s poster in the top 5 from the enormous meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Beijing!   This poster reports our results on new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the accretion flow around our Galactic center supermassive black hole, Sgr A*. http://astrobites.com/2012/08/31/snapshots-from-the-iau-in-beijing/

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