Topics in Gravitational Physics

Presentations

• Visualizing Black Hole Spacetime with the Photon Ring

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 4:30 PM – March 17, 2025, 4:42 PM

  Publication: P. Galison, M. Johnson, A. Lupsasca, T. Gravely, R. Berens, "The Black Hole Explorer: Using the Photon Ring to Visualize Spacetime Around the Black Hole," Proceedings Volume 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 130926R (2024) [arXiv:2406.11671]

  Presenters

  • Roman Berens

    Vanderbilt University

  Authors

  • Roman Berens

    Vanderbilt University

  • Trevor Gravely

    Vanderbilt University

  • Alexandru Lupsasca

    Vanderbilt University

  • Michael Johnson

    Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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• Black Hole Vision: An Interactive iOS App to Visualize Warped Spacetime.

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2025, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Trevor Gravely

    Vanderbilt University

  Authors

  • Trevor Gravely

    Vanderbilt University

  • Roman Berens

    Vanderbilt University

  • Alexandru Lupsasca

    Vanderbilt University

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• The Black Hole Explorer: the Future of Space-Based Black Hole Imaging

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 4:54 PM – March 17, 2025, 5:06 PM

  Publication: Proceedings Volume 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 130926Q (2024)<br>https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019437<br>https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09498

  Presenters

  • Alexandru Lupsasca

    Vanderbilt University

  Authors

  • Alexandru Lupsasca

    Vanderbilt University

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• A laboratory astrophysics platform to investigate gravitational lensing diffraction

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 5:06 PM – March 17, 2025, 5:18 PM

  Publication: V. Rodriguez-Fajardo et al. New J. Phys. 25, 083033 (2023).

  Presenters

  • Enrique Jose Galvez

    Colgate University

  Authors

  • Enrique Jose Galvez

    Colgate University

  • Kwakye Kendja

    Colgate University

  • Thao Nguyen

    Colgate University

  • Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo

    Colgate University

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• Euclideanization of Minkowski Spacetime via Conic Projection

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 5:18 PM – March 17, 2025, 5:30 PM

  Publication: Submitted to PRX on October 21 with title: "Euclideanization without Complexification of the Spacetime"

  Presenters

  • Nicole Hudson Drew

    Pennsylvania State University

  Authors

  • Nicole Hudson Drew

    Pennsylvania State University

  • Martin Bojowald

    Pennsylvania State University

  • Venkatraman Gopalan

    Pennsylvania State University

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• Exploring the dependence of the dissipative tidal deformability on the equation of state of a neutron star

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 5:30 PM – March 17, 2025, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Abhishek Hegade K R

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Abhishek Hegade K R

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Nicolas Yunes

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Jorge Noronha

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Yumu Yang

    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Maurício Hippert

    Rio de Janeiro State University

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• Modeling Charge in Black Hole Binary Mergers Using the Backwards One Body Model

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 5:42 PM – March 17, 2025, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Matthew Cerep

    West Virginia University

  Authors

  • Matthew Cerep

    West Virginia University

  • Sean T McWilliams

    West Virginia University

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• Machine- and deep-learning-driven angular momentum inference from Black Hole Explorer observations of the n=1 photon subring

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 5:54 PM – March 17, 2025, 6:06 PM

  Publication: J. Farah et al. (2024). Machine- and deep-learning-driven angular momentum inference from Black Hole Explorer observations of the n=1 photon subring. Submitted to ApJ.

  Presenters

  • Joseph Farah

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Joseph Farah

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Jordy Davelaar

    Princeton University

  • Daniel Palumbo

    Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

  • Michael Johnson

    Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

  • Jonathan Delgado

    UC Irvine

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• Modified Gravity Constraints from the Full Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements from DESI 2024

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 6:06 PM – March 17, 2025, 6:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Mustapha Ishak

    University of Texas at Dallas

  Authors

  • Mustapha Ishak

    University of Texas at Dallas

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