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Fall 2016
Low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) are systems of compact stellar remnants accreting from a low mass companion star. These systems show various levels of mass transfer on various timescales. Many aspects of accretion in these systems are still not fully understood, specifically the emission...
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Constraining the Jet Properties of the New Transient X-ray Binary, Swift J1745-26, With the Submillimeter Array and James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
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Accreting astrophysical sources are an important end-result of intricate stellar dynamics. A particularly puzzling aspect of this accretion process is the production and evolution of plasma outflows (known as jets). Although astrophysical jets have been studied for decades in accreting sources,...
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Exotic binaries in Galactic globular clusters: identification, classification, and their formation
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Globular clusters (GCs) are dense and massive stellar populations, which provide a unique environment where the high stellar density facilitates frequent dynamical encounters, creating many exotic binaries. These exotic binaries generally have short orbits and often harbour compact objects,...
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Fall 2012
The Einstein equation with a negative cosmological constant \lambda in the five dimensions for the Randall-Sundrum II model, which includes a black hole, has been solved numerically. We have constructed an AdS5-CFT4 solution numerically, using a spectral method to minimize the integral of the...
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The Definitive All-Sky Observational Study Of Accretion Disc Physics In Galactic Black Hole X-ray Binaries
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Stellar mass black holes (BHs) accreting in binary systems provide valuable insight into how binary systems evolve and how mass is transferred via accretion. Although in recent years a canonical picture of the outburst evolution in black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs) has emerged, these systems...