Microquasars are the compact objects generally including accreting black holes which produce relativitic jets. The physical mechanisms of jet launching, collimation, and acceleration are poorly understood. Microquasars show strong variability in multi-wavelength observations. In X-rays, the sources show the fast variation features up to millisecond time scales, with the prominant quasiperiodic ...
The concordance or standard Λ Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) model is a well-defined, predictive and simple cosmological model. A number of challenges of the standard ΛCDM model have been emerging during the past few years, which has been summarized by recent reviews.In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to several existing signals in cosmological and astrophysical data that appear to be i...
The ground-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories discover a population of merging stellar binary black holes (BBHs), which are promising targets for multiband observations by the low-, middle-, and high-frequency GW detectors. We investigate the multiband GW detections of BBHs and demonstrate the advantages of such observations in improving the localization and parameter estimates of the ...
The recent breakthrough in the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from merging black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) binaries by advanced LIGO/Virgo has generated renewed interest in understanding the formation mechanisms of merging compact binaries, from the evolution of massive stellar binaries and triples in the galactic fields, dynamical interactions in dense star clusters to binary mer...
We investigate obstacles of superluminal “warp drive” travels from interactions with interstellar matter and from curvature effects. The effect of collision of interstellar dust particles and photons with the spacecraft will all lead to a pressure proportional to the apparent velocity of the spaceship vs. The force exerted on the spacecraft from the curvature effect has two non-trivial compon...