Presentations
Oral presentations
Setting the stage for the meeting
| Paul Murdin (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, GB) Closing in on black holes |
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Probing strong gravity in stellar-mass black holes
| Ron Remillard (MIT, US) The X-ray States and High Frequency Oscillations in Black Hole Binaries |
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| Jörn Wilms (Remeis-Observatory and ECAP, DE) Line spectroscopy in stellar-mass black holes |
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| Luigi Stella (INAF - Observatorio Astronomico di Roma, IT) Timing Stellar Mass Black Holes and Strong Field Gravity |
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| Rubens Reis (University of Cambridge, GB) Stellar-mass black holes in the low-hard state |
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| Phil Uttley (University of Southampton, GB) Disentangling Disk Variability |
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| Sean O'Neill (University of Maryland, US) The Search for Diskoseismic Modes in Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Disks |
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| Omer Blaes (University of California, Santa Barbara, US) A Model of the Steep Power Law State and HFQPO's Suggested by Radiation MHD Simulations of MRI Turbulence |
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| Gabriel Török (Silesian University in Opava, CZ) Mass and spin implications of high-frequency QPO models across black holes and neutron stars |
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| Agata Różańska (Copernicus Astronomical Centre Warsaw, PL) Theoretical Iron Line profiles from Galactic Black Hole Candidates |
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| Jeffrey McClintock (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, US) Measuring the Spins of Accreting Stellar-Mass Black Holes |
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| Jeremy Schnittman (Johns Hopkins University, US) Probing Strong Gravity with X-ray Polarization |
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| Odele Straub (Copernicus Astronomical Centre, PL) Spin measurement of solar mass black holes in microquasars |
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| Poshak Gandhi (RIKEN, JP) New constraints on accretion from fast optical and X-ray timing of X-ray binaries |
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| Emrah Kalemci (Sabanci University, TR) Temporal Analysis of Black Holes with Disk Inner Radii Determined through Reflection Features |
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| Mari Kolehmainen (Durham University, GB) Limits on spin determination from disc spectral fitting in GX 339-4 |
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| Tiziana Di Salvo (DSFA - Universita' di Palermo, IT) Relativistic Iron line in Neutron Star Low Mass X-ray Binaries |
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| Antonino D'Ai (University of Palermo, IT) The reflection component in the NS X-ray binaries: analogies and differences with the black-hole systems class |
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| Marion Cadolle Bel (ESAC/ISOC Madrid, ES) Broadband properties of Cygnus X-1 and comparisons with several microquasars |
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| Adam Ingram (University of Durham, GB) A physical basis for the timing properties of X-ray binaries |
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| Chris Done (University of Durham, GB) Summary of the session on stellar mass black holes |
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Probing strong gravity in supermassive black holes
| Massimo Cappi (INAF/IASF-BO, IT) Probing high velocity inflows and outflows in AGNs via time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy |
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| Kazushi Iwasawa (INAF - OA Bologna, IT) X-ray variability of active galaxies and the relativistic effects |
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| Michal Dovčiak (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, CZ) Polarization in strong gravity - review of theoretical aspects for SMBH |
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| Dom Walton (University of Cambridge, GB) The High Energy X-ray Emission from NGC 1365 and 1H 0419-577: |
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| Matthew Middleton (University of Durham, GB) The changing nature of REJ1034+396 |
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| Ari Laor (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IL) A direct measure of the radiative efficiency in AGN |
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| David Ballantyne (Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Tech, US) The Cosmic Density and Distribution of Relativistic Iron Lines |
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| James Reeves (Keele University, GB) A Deep View of the Iron line in the Rapidly Variable NLS1, NGC 4051. |
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| Jiří Svoboda (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, CZ) Role of emission angular directionality in spin determination of accreting black holes with a broad iron line |
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| Abderahmen Zoghbi (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, GB) Lag interpretation in active galaxies. |
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| Giovanni Miniutti (Centro de Astrobiologia, ES) Measuring the spin of supermassive black holes |
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| Stefanie Komossa (MPE, DE) Compact massive black hole binary systems and recoiling black holes |
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| Ignacio de la Calle (ESAC, European Space Ageny, Madrid, ES) FERO (Finding Extreme Relativistic Objects): Relativistic Fe Kalpha lines in Type 1 AGN |
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| Barbara De Marco (IASF/INAF, IT) Iron line variability in the brightest sources of the FERO sample |
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| Matteo Guainazzi (European Space Agency, ES) GREDOS versus FERO: shooting at the monster from two different angles |
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| Gabriele Ponti (Southampton University, GB) The XMM-Newton view of the Fe K variability of the 22 brightest-unabsorbed AGN |
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| René Goosmann (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, FR) Modeling the X-ray variability of AGN by mutliple flares |
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| Fukun Liu (Peking University, CN) Probing Supermassive Black Hole Binaries at Galactic Nuclei |
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| Marek Nikolajuk (University of Bialystok, Faculty of Physics, PL) SDSS J094533.99+100950.1 -- the quasar caught in the act of reactivation? |
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| Kirpal Nandra (Imperial College London, GB) Summary of the session on supermassive black holes |
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Probing strong gravity in Galactic centre
| Andreas Eckart (I. Physikalisches Institut, University of Cologne, DE) Flare emisson from Sagittarius A* across different spectral domains |
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| Jason Dexter (University of Washington, US) Constraining Sgr A* Using Relativistic MHD Simulations |
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| Roman Shcherbakov (Harvard University, US) Self-consistent Modeling of Sgr A* Quiescent Emission |
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| Mohammad Zamaninasab (MPIfR Bonn / University of Cologne, DE) Near Infrared Flares of Sagittarius A*: Importance of Near Infrared Polarimetry |
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| Shiho Kobayashi (Liverpool John Moores University, GB) Stellar Pancakes and Hyper-Velocity Stars |
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| Raymond Angelil (Institut for Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich, CH) Detecting GR effects via galactic center S-star redshifts |
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| Rainer Schödel (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), ES) Summary of the Session on the Galactic Center |
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Observational perspectives and future techniques
| Didier Barret (CESR, FR) Prospects of X-ray timing |
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| Christopher Reynolds (University of Maryland, US) Future prospects for Probing Strong Gravity with X-ray Spectroscopy |
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| Fabio Muleri (INAF/IASF-Rome, IT) Prospects of X-ray polarimetry |
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| Giorgio Matt (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' Roma Tre, IT) NHXM: a New Hard X-ray Imaging and Polarimetric Mission |
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| Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT, US) Studying High-Frequency QPOs in Accreting Stellar-Mass Black Holes with AXTAR |
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| Makoto Miyoshi (NAOJ, JP) A First Black Hole Imager at Andes |
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| Seiji Kameno (Kagoshima University, JP) VSOP-2 : A space VLBI imaging mission |
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| Mai Urata (Kagoshima University, JP) The difference of black hole parameters from the space-VLBI synthesis images |
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| Tobias Fritz (Max Planck Insitut für Extraterrestrische Physik, DE) The prospects of probing relativity in the Galactic Center with Adaptive Optics Observations |
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| Frank Eisenhauer (Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, DE) Imaging and astrometry of black holes at radio- and infrared wavelengths |
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| Cole Miller (University of Maryland, US) Prospects for gravitational wave detection |
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| Guy Perrin (Observatoire de Paris / LESIA, FR) Probing the close environment of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy with GRAVITY |
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| Ranjeev Misra (IUCAA, IN) Analytical error estimate for the cross-correlation between two light curves |
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| Frederic Vincent (Observatoire de Paris - LESIA, FR) Full general relativistic ray-tracing of bodies in the vicinity of Sgr A*: simulating observations to test GR in its strongest regime with the instrument GRAVITY. |
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Summary of the conference
| Andrew Fabian (University of Cambridge, GB) Probing strong gravity near black holes (summary) |
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Poster presentations
Probing strong gravity in stellar-mass black holes
| Pavel Bakala (Silesian University in Opava, CZ) On magnetic-field induced non-geodesic corrections to relativistic orbital and epicyclic frequencies |
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| Michal Bursa (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, CZ) Slimbb: XSPEC model for thermal spectra of slim accretion disks |
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| Marion Cadolle Bel (ESAC/ISOC Madrid, ES) A systematic analysis of the broad Fe K alpha line in neutron star LMXBs with XMM-Newton |
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| Pablo Cassatella (University of Southampton, GB) Time Lags and Reflection in BH X-ray Binaries |
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| Petr Hadrava (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, CZ) Circumstellar matter and variability of black-hole binary system Cyg X-1 |
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| Beike Hiemstra (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, NL) A broad iron line in the new X-ray transient XTE J1652-453 |
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| Agnieszka Janiuk (Copernicus Astronomical Center, PL) The role of black hole spin and magnetic field threading the unstable neutrino disk in Gamma Ray Bursts |
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| Yasufumi Kojima (Hiroshima University, JP) Stationary axisymmetric magnetosphere of black hole-disk system with two-fluid flows |
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| Karri Koljonen (Metsähovi Radio Observatory, FI) A new approach to the disk/jet connection in the enigmatic microquasar Cygnus X-3 |
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| Natale Robba (DSFA / Palermo University, IT) Spectral Analysis of X-ray Binary System Cir X-1 with XMM-Newton. |
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| David Russell (University of Amsterdam, NL) Constraints on X-ray polarization of synchrotron jets from stellar-mass BHs |
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| Aleksander Sądowski (Copernicus Astronomical Center, PL) Vertical structure of slim accretion disks |
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| Petr Slaný (Silesian University in Opava, CZ) Estimates of black-hole parameters in XTE J1650-500 and GRS 1915+105 from the Extended Orbital Resonance Model for high-frequency QPOs |
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| David Tsang (Caltech, US) Diskoseismic Modes in Black Hole Accretion Disks and the Corotation Resonance |
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| Tessei Yoshida (Tokyo University of Science, JP) Chandra and XMM-Newton studies for ultraluminous X-ray sources in two interacting galaxies |
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Probing strong gravity in supermassive black holes
| Chia-Ying Chiang (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, GB) The Relativistic Broad Iron Line in MCG-6-30-15 |
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| Deborah Dultzin (Instituto de Astronomia UNAM, MX) Physical conditions of the BLR (innermost emitting regions) of Quasars, and a new method to determine Black Hole masses. |
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| James Guillochon (UC Santa Cruz, US) Three-dimensional Simulations of Tidally Disrupted Solar-type Stars and the Observational Signatures of Shock Breakout |
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| Carlos Gutierrez (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, ES) Non-evolution of black hole masses and Eddington ratios for QSOs of equal luminosity |
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| Gabor Kupi (Weizmann Institute of Science, IL) The Efficiency of Resonant Relaxation Around a Massive Black Hole |
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| Andrew Lobban (Keele University, GB) Fe K Line Variability in the Highly Variable Seyfert 1 NGC 4051 |
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| Emanuele Nardini (Dip. di Astronomia, Univ. di Firenze, IT) Probing relativistic lines through X-ray eclipses |
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| Andrzej Niedzwiecki (University of Lodz, Dept. of Astrophysics, PL) The influence of Kerr metric effects on radiative properties of black-hole accretion flows |
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| Adam Patrick (Keele University, GB) Suzaku Spectra of Bare Seyfert Galaxies |
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| Norbert Schartel (ESA / XMM-Newton, ES) A long hard look to the minimum state of PG 2112+059 with XMM-Newton |
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| Masaaki Takahashi (Aichi University of Education, JP) 'Black Hole Aurora' powered by a Rapidly Rotating Black Hole |
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| Monica Valencia-S. (I.Physicalisches Institut - University of Cologne, DE) Fueling scenarios for an unobscured low luminosity AGN |
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| Dan Wilkins (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, GB) Determining Emissivity Profiles of AGN Accretion Discs |
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| Gunther Witzel (I. Physikalisches Institut -- University of Cologne, DE) High precision polarimetric measurements for probing strong gravity |
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| Piotr Życki (Copernicus Astronomical Center, PL) Testing the light-bending model of X-ray variability of MCG-6-30-15 |
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Probing strong gravity in Galactic centre
| Gabriele Ponti (Southampton University, GB) The inglorious past of Sgr A* betrayed by Molecular Clouds |
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| Nadeen Sabha (1. Physikalisches Institut, University of Cologne, DE) The Extreme Luminosity States of Sagittarius A* |
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| Ladislav Šubr (Charles University in Prague, CZ) Dynamical evolution of young stellar disc in SgrA* |
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| Alexander Zakharov (Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, RU) Constraints for DM distributions from apoastron shifts of bright stars near the black hole at the Galactic Center |
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Observational perspectives and future techniques
| Refiz Duro (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE) Modified Timing Mode of XMM-Newton; An analysis of Cygnus X-1 |
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Probing strong gravity across the range of masses
| Cosimo Bambi (IPMU, The University of Tokyo, JP) The role of event horizon and its phenomenological implications |
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| M. Khayrul Hasan (Department of Mathematics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, BD) Cold Plasma Wave Dispersion around the Horizon of Schwarzschild-de Sitter Black Hole |
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| Jiří Horák (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, CZ) Weak nonlinear coupling between epicyclic modes in accretion tori |
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| Jiří Horák (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, CZ) Polarization from the oscillating magnetized accretion torus |
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| Tomohisa Kawashima (Chiba University, JP) Photon Spectra and Radiation Properties of Supercritical Accretion Flows with Comptonizing Outflows around Stellar-Mass Black Holes |
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| Peter Kazinski (Tomsk State University, RU) One-loop effective potential of the Higgs field on the Schwarzschild background |
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| Taichi Kobayashi (Nagoya University, JP) Black hole feedback of disk emission |
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| Ondřej Kopáček (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, CZ) Recurrence analysis of chaotic motion around compact objects |
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| Jiří Kovář (Silesian University in Opava, CZ) Off-equatorial halo orbits near compact objects |
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| Luboš Neslušan (Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, SK) The fundamentals on the non-black black holes |
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| Tomáš Pecháček (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, CZ) Power spectra from interconnected avalanching processes |
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| Hiromi Saida (Daido University, JP) Relativistic Dissipative Accretion Flow around BH based on EIT: theorems and implications |
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| Petra Suková (Charles University in Prague, CZ) Chaos in geodesic motion around black holes with disc or ring |
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| Maciej Sznajder (University of Zielona Góra, PL) New look at Paczyński - Wiita gravitational potential in spherical accretion problems. |
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| Shun Takeuchi (Kyoto university, JP) Magnetic Collimation of Radiatively Driven Jets: Significance of Radiation for Relativistic Jet Formation |
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| Vladimir Karas (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, CZ) Frame-dragging effects acting on magnetic field near a rotating black hole in motion |
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