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Alexander Tchekhovskoy

2020

M. Liska, C. Hesp, A. Tchekhovskoy, A. Ingram, M. van der Klis, S.B. Markoff, and M. Van Moer (2020): Disc Tearing and Bardeen-Petterson Alignment in GRMHD Simulations of Highly Tilted Thin Accretion Discs, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (in press), The Royal Astronomical Society

2019

Oliver Porth, Koushik Chatterjee, Ramesh Narayan, Charles F. Gammie, Yosuke Mizuno, Peter Anninos, John G. Baker, Matteo Bugli, Chi-kwan Chan, Jordy Davelaar, Luca Del Zanna, Zachariah B. Etienne, P. Chris Fragile, Bernard J. Kelly, Matthew Liska, Sera Markoff, Jonathan C. McKinney, Bhupendra Mishra, Scott C. Noble, Héctor Olivares, Ben Prather, Luciano Rezzolla, Benjamin R. Ryan, James M. Stone, Niccolò Tomei, Christopher J. White, Ziri Younsi, and The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2019): The Event Horizon General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Code Comparison Project, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, The American Astronomical Society, Vol 243, Num 2
M. Liska, A. Tchekhovskoy, A. Ingram, and M. van der Klis (2019): Bardeen–Petterson alignment, jets, and magnetic truncation in GRMHD simulations of tilted thin accretion discs, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Royal Astronomical Society, Vol 487, Num 1, pp550-561

2018

Matthew Liska, Casper Hesp, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Adam Ingram, Michiel van der Klis, and Sera Markoff (2018): Formation of Precessing Jets by Tilted Black-hole Discs in 3D General Relativistic MHD Simulations, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Oxford University Press, Vol 474, Num 1, ppL81-L85

2019

Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Matthew Liska, Casper Hesp, Adam Ingram, Michiel van der Klis, Sera Markoff, Koushik Chatterjee, Zack Andalman, Nicholas Stone, Eric Coughlin (2019): Feeding Black Holes: Tilt with a Twist, 2019 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp70-71

2018

Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Nicholas Stone, Matthew Liska, Casper Hesp, Adam Ingram, Michiel van der Klis, Sera Markoff, Koushik Chatterjee, Zack Andalman (2018): Feeding Black Holes: Tilt with a Twist, 2018 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp34-35

2017

Alexander Tchekhovskoy (2017): GPU-Accelerated Simulations: Black Holes, Spaghettified Stars, and Tilted Disks, 2017 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp56-57

How Parallel Processing Solves Our Biggest Computational Problems


Nov 6, 2019

Researchers solved a four-decade-old mystery, proving that the innermost part of matter that orbits, then collapses into, black holes aligns with those black holes; Last year, researchers at U of I’s Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences topped the feds’ industry-standard forecast by incorporating more data which proved more accurate by nearly five bushels per acre.


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Most-detailed-ever simulations of black hole solve longstanding mystery


Jun 5, 2019

An international team has constructed the most detailed, highest resolution simulation of a black hole to date. The simulation proves theoretical predictions about the nature of accretion disks -- the matter that orbits and eventually falls into a black hole -- that have never before been seen.


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Black hole breakthrough: new insight into mysterious jets


Jan 9, 2018

Through first-of-their-kind supercomputer simulations, researchers, including a Northwestern University professor, have gained new insight into one of the most mysterious phenomena in modern astronomy: the behavior of relativistic jets that shoot from black holes, extending outward across millions of light years.


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