Omer Michael Blaes - Publications

Affiliations: 
Physics University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States 
Area:
Astrophysics and Cosmology
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http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/people/omer-blaes

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2021 Burke CJ, Shen Y, Blaes O, Gammie CF, Horne K, Jiang YF, Liu X, McHardy IM, Morgan CW, Scaringi S, Yang Q. A characteristic optical variability time scale in astrophysical accretion disks. Science (New York, N.Y.). 373: 789-792. PMID 34385395 DOI: 10.1126/science.abg9933  0.338
2020 Jiang Y, Blaes O. Opacity Driven Convection and Variability in Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes The Astrophysical Journal. 900: 25. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Aba4B7  0.517
2020 White CJ, Dexter J, Blaes O, Quataert E. The Effects of Tilt on the Images of Black Hole Accretion Flows The Astrophysical Journal. 894: 14. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Ab8463  0.636
2019 Jiang Y, Blaes O, Stone JM, Davis SW. Global Radiation Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of sub-Eddington Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes The Astrophysical Journal. 885: 144. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Ab4A00  0.684
2019 White CJ, Quataert E, Blaes O. Tilted Disks around Black Holes: A Numerical Parameter Survey for Spin and Inclination Angle The Astrophysical Journal. 878: 51. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Ab089E  0.375
2019 Karpouzas K, Méndez M, Ribeiro EM, Altamirano D, Blaes O, García F. The Comptonizing medium of the neutron star in 4U 1636 − 53 through its lower kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 492: 1399-1415. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Stz3502  0.411
2018 Jiang YF, Cantiello M, Bildsten L, Quataert E, Blaes O, Stone J. Outbursts of luminous blue variable stars from variations in the helium opacity. Nature. 561: 498-501. PMID 30258134 DOI: 10.1038/S41586-018-0525-0  0.478
2018 Coleman MSB, Blaes O, Hirose S, Hauschildt PH. Convection Enhances Magnetic Turbulence in AM CVn Accretion Disks The Astrophysical Journal. 857: 52. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Aab6A7  0.465
2018 Kaufman J, Blaes OM, Hirose S. A simple framework for modelling the dependence of bulk Comptonization by turbulence on accretion disc parameters Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 476: 5548-5578. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Sty540  0.47
2017 Jiang Y, Cantiello M, Bildsten L, Quataert E, Blaes O. The Effects of Magnetic Fields on the Dynamics of Radiation Pressure–dominated Massive Star Envelopes The Astrophysical Journal. 843: 68. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Aa77B0  0.428
2017 Coleman MSB, Yerger E, Blaes O, Salvesen G, Hirose S. Convective quenching of field reversals in accretion disc dynamos Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 467: 2625-2635. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Stx268  0.352
2017 Kaufman J, Blaes OM, Hirose S. The contribution of bulk Comptonization to the soft X-ray excess in AGN Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 467: 1734-1747. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Stx193  0.464
2016 Kaufman J, Blaes OM. Bulk Comptonization by turbulence in accretion discs Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 459: 1790-1802. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Stw761  0.453
2016 Coleman MSB, Kotko I, Blaes O, Lasota J-, Hirose S. Dwarf nova outbursts with magnetorotational turbulence Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 462: 3710-3726. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Stw1908  0.385
2016 Fragile PC, Straub O, Blaes O. High-frequency and type-C QPOs from oscillating, precessing hot, thick flow Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 461: 1356-1362. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Stw1428  0.401
2015 Jiang YF, Cantiello M, Bildsten L, Quataert E, Blaes O. Local radiation hydrodynamic simulations of massive star envelopes at the iron opacity peak Astrophysical Journal. 813. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/813/1/74  0.472
2014 Dexter J, Blaes O. A model of the steep power-law spectra and high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations in luminous black hole X-ray binaries Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 438: 3352-3357. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Stu121  0.667
2014 Hirose S, Blaes O, Krolik JH, Coleman MSB, Sano T. Convection causes enhanced magnetic turbulence in accretion disks in outburst Astrophysical Journal. 787. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/787/1/1  0.655
2014 Generozov A, Blaes O, Fragile PC, Henisey KB. Physical properties of the inner shocks in hot, tilted black hole accretion flows Astrophysical Journal. 780. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/780/1/81  0.78
2014 Blaes O. General Overview of Black Hole Accretion Theory Space Science Reviews. 183: 21-41. DOI: 10.1007/S11214-013-9985-6  0.403
2013 Tao T, Blaes O. Effects of local dissipation profiles on magnetized accretion disk spectra Astrophysical Journal. 770. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/770/1/55  0.48
2012 Done C, Davis SW, Jin C, Blaes O, Ward M. Intrinsic disc emission and the soft X-ray excess in active galactic nuclei Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 420: 1848-1860. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2966.2011.19779.X  0.652
2012 Henisey KB, Blaes OM, Fragile PC. Variability from non-axisymmetric fluctuations interacting with standing shocks in tilted black hole accretion disks Astrophysical Journal. 761. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/761/1/18  0.786
2011 Tao T, Blaes O. Local radiation magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in magnetically stratified media Astrophysical Journal. 742. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/742/1/8  0.669
2011 Blaes O, Krolik JH, Hirose S, Shabaltas N. Dissipation and vertical energy transport in radiation-dominated accretion disks Astrophysical Journal. 733. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/733/2/110  0.636
2009 Henisey KB, Blaes OM, Fragile PC, Ferreira BT. Excitation of trapped waves in simulations of tilted black hole accretion disks with magnetorotational turbulence Astrophysical Journal. 706: 705-711. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/706/1/705  0.78
2009 Hirose S, Blaes O, Krolik JH. Turbulent stresses in local simulations of radiation-dominated accretion disks, and the possibility of the lightman-eardley instability Astrophysical Journal. 704: 781-788. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/704/1/781  0.622
2009 Davis SW, Blaes OM, Hirose S, Krolik JH. The effects of magnetic fields and inhomogeneities on accretion disk spectra and polarization Astrophysical Journal. 703: 569-584. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/703/1/569  0.743
2009 Hirose S, Krolik JH, Blaes O. Radiation-Dominated Disks are Thermally Stable The Astrophysical Journal. 691: 16-31. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/691/1/16  0.624
2008 Kishimoto M, Antonucci R, Blaes O, Lawrence A, Boisson C, Albrecht M, Leipski C. The characteristic blue spectra of accretion disks in quasars as uncovered in the infrared. Nature. 454: 492-4. PMID 18650919 DOI: 10.1038/Nature07114  0.717
2008 Fragile PC, Anninos P, Blaes OM, Salmonson JD. 3D relativistic MHD simulation of a tilted accretion disk around a rapidly rotating black hole 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the Mg11 Meeting On General Relativity. 1573-1575. DOI: 10.1142/9789812834300_0198  0.492
2008 Kishimoto M, Antonucci R, Blaes O, Lawrence A, Boisson C, Albrecht M, Leipski C. AGN accretion disks as spatially resolved by polarimetry Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 131: 012039. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/131/1/012039  0.69
2008 Fragile PC, Blaes OM. Epicyclic motions and standing shocks in numerically simulated tilted black hole accretion disks Astrophysical Journal. 687: 757-766. DOI: 10.1086/591936  0.488
2008 Blaes O. Coalescence of Neutron Star Binaries The Evolution of X‐Ray Binaries. 308: 245-254. DOI: 10.1063/1.46017  0.419
2007 Davis SW, Woo JH, Blaes OM. The UV continuum of quasars: Models and SPSS spectral slopes Astrophysical Journal. 668: 682-698. DOI: 10.1086/521393  0.627
2007 Fragile PC, Blaes OM, Anninos P, Salmonson JD. Global general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a tilted black hole accretion disk Astrophysical Journal. 668: 417-429. DOI: 10.1086/521092  0.499
2007 Blaes OM, Šrámková E, Abramowicz MA, Kluźniak W, Torkelsson U. Epicyclic oscillations of fluid bodies: Newtonian nonslender torus Astrophysical Journal. 665: 642-653. DOI: 10.1086/519782  0.602
2007 Blaes O, Hirose S, Krolik JH. Surface structure in an accretion disk annulus with comparable radiation and gas pressure Astrophysical Journal. 664: 1057-1071. DOI: 10.1086/519516  0.672
2007 Krolik JH, Hirose S, Blaes O. Thermodynamics of an accretion disk annulus with comparable radiation and gas pressure Astrophysical Journal. 664: 1045-1056. DOI: 10.1086/519515  0.614
2006 Blaes OM, Arras P, Fragile PC. Oscillation modes of relativistic slender tori Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 369: 1235-1252. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2966.2006.10370.X  0.415
2006 Abramowicz MA, Blaes OM, Horák J, Kluźniak W, Rebusco P. Epicyclic oscillations of fluid bodies: II. Strong gravity Classical and Quantum Gravity. 23: 1689-1696. DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/23/5/014  0.632
2006 Davis SW, Done C, Blaes OM. Testing accretion disk theory in black hole X-ray binaries Astrophysical Journal. 647: 525-538. DOI: 10.1086/505386  0.641
2006 Blaes OM, Davis SW, Hirose S, Krolik JH, Stone JM. Magnetic pressure support and accretion disk spectra Astrophysical Journal. 645: 1402-1407. DOI: 10.1086/503741  0.721
2006 Socrates A, Davis SW, Blaes O. Turbulent Comptonization in relativistic accretion disks Advances in Space Research. 38: 2880-2883. DOI: 10.1016/J.Asr.2006.08.002  0.789
2005 Kishimoto M, Antonucci R, Blaes O. The dust-eliminated shape of quasar spectra in the near-infrared: A hidden part of the big blue bump Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 364: 640-648. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2966.2005.09577.X  0.673
2005 Socrates A, Blaes O, Hungerford A, Fryer CL. The neutrino bubble instability: A mechanism for generating pulsar kicks Astrophysical Journal. 632: 531-562. DOI: 10.1086/431786  0.777
2005 Turner NJ, Blaes OM, Socrates A, Begelman MC, Davis SW. The effects of photon bubble instability in radiation-dominated accretion disks Astrophysical Journal. 624: 267-288. DOI: 10.1086/428723  0.811
2005 Davis SW, Blaes OM, Hubeny I, Turner NJ. Relativistic accretion disk models of high-state black hole X-ray binary spectra Astrophysical Journal. 621: 372-387. DOI: 10.1086/427278  0.67
2005 Shang Z, Brotherton MS, Green RF, Kriss GA, Scott J, Quijano JK, Blaes O, Hubeny I, Hutchings J, Kaiser ME, Koratkar A, Oegerle W, Zheng W. Quasars and the big blue bump Astrophysical Journal. 619: 41-59. DOI: 10.1086/426134  0.463
2004 Blaes O. A universe of disks. Scientific American. 291: 48-52, 54, 56-7. PMID 15487670 DOI: 10.1038/Scientificamerican1004-48  0.361
2004 Kishimoto M, Antonucci R, Boisson C, Blaes O. Accretion around Supermassive Black Holes: The Detection of the Balmer Edge Signature from Quasars Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement. 155: 166-169. DOI: 10.1143/Ptps.155.166  0.691
2004 Kishimoto M, Antonucci R, Boisson C, Blaes O. The buried Balmer-edge signatures from quasars Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 354: 1065-1092. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2966.2004.08268.X  0.66
2004 Ballantyne DR, Turner NJ, Blaes OM. X-ray reflection from inhomogeneous accretion disks. I. Toy models and photon bubbles Astrophysical Journal. 603: 436-448. DOI: 10.1086/381495  0.438
2004 Socrates A, Davis SW, Blaes O. Turbulent comptonization in black hole accretion disks Astrophysical Journal. 601: 405-413. DOI: 10.1086/380301  0.82
2004 Turner NJ, Yorke HW, Socrates A, Blaes OM. Photon bubbles in young massive stars Revista Mexicana De Astronomia Y Astrofisica: Serie De Conferencias. 22: 54-57.  0.733
2004 Kishimoto M, Antonucci R, Boisson C, Blaes O. Accretion around supermassive black holes: The detection of the balmer edge signature from quasars Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement. 155: 166-169.  0.342
2003 Blaes O, Socrates A. Local radiative hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in optically thick media Astrophysical Journal. 596: 509-537. DOI: 10.1086/377637  0.748
2003 Chiang J, Blaes O. Using multiwavelength observations to determine the black hole mass and accretion rate in the type 1 Seyfert galaxy NGC 5548 Astrophysical Journal. 586: 97-111. DOI: 10.1086/346260  0.48
2003 Kishimoto M, Antonucci R, Blaes O. A first close look at the Balmer-edge behaviour of the quasar big blue bump Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 345: 253-260. DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-8711.2003.06934.X  0.649
2002 Blaes O, Lee MH, Socrates A. The kozai mechanism and the evolution of binary supermassive black holes Astrophysical Journal. 578: 775-786. DOI: 10.1086/342655  0.772
2001 Blaes O, Hubeny I, Agol E, Krolik JH. Non-LTE, relativistic accretion disk fits to 3C 273 and the origin of the Lyman limit spectral break Astrophysical Journal. 563: 560-568. DOI: 10.1086/324045  0.746
2001 Chiang J, Blaes O. Thermal comptonization and disk thermal reprocessing in NGC 3516 Astrophysical Journal. 557: L15-L18. DOI: 10.1086/323077  0.431
2001 Hubeny I, Blaes O, Krolik JH, Agol E. Non-LTE models and theoretical spectra of accretion disks in active galactic nuclei. IV. Effects of Compton scattering and metal opacities Astrophysical Journal. 559: 680-702. DOI: 10.1086/322344  0.739
2001 Blaes O, Socrates A. Local dynamical instabilities in magnetized, radiation pressure-supported accretion disks Astrophysical Journal. 553: 987-998. DOI: 10.1086/320968  0.769
2001 Shields GA, Agol E, Blaes O. The puzzle of the Lyman continuum polarization of QSOs Revista Mexicana De Astronomia Y Astrofisica: Serie De Conferencias. 10: 87-95.  0.545
2000 Agol E, Jones B, Blaes O. Keck mid-infrared imaging of QSO 2237 + 0305 Astrophysical Journal. 545: 657-663. DOI: 10.1086/317847  0.621
2000 Hubeny I, Agol E, Blaes O, Krolik JH. Non-LTE models and theoretical spectra of accretion disks in active galactic nuclei. III. Integrated spectra for hydrogen-helium disks Astrophysical Journal. 533: 710-728. DOI: 10.1086/308708  0.751
2000 Chiang J, Reynolds CS, Blaes OM, Nowak MA, Murray N, Madejski G, Marshall HL, Magdziarz P. Simultaneous EUVE/ASCA/RXTE observations of NGC 5548 Astrophysical Journal. 528: 292-305. DOI: 10.1086/308178  0.436
1999 Koratkar A, Blaes O. The ultraviolet and optical continuum emission in active galactic nuclei: The status of accretion disks Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 111: 1-30. DOI: 10.1086/316294  0.452
1998 Thompson C, Blaes O. Magnetohydrodynamics in the extreme relativistic limit Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 57: 3219-3234. DOI: 10.1103/Physrevd.57.3219  0.388
1998 Hsu CM, Blaes O. Compton scattering of polarized radiation in two-phase accretion disks in active galactic nuclei Astrophysical Journal. 506: 658-672. DOI: 10.1086/306263  0.367
1998 Magdziarz P, Blaes OM, Zdziarski AA, Johnson WN, Smith DA. A spectral decomposition of the variable optical, ultraviolet and X-ray continuum of NGC 5548 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 301: 179-192. DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-8711.1998.02015.X  0.429
1998 Agol E, Blaes O, Ionescu-Zanetti C. Polarization from magnetized accretion discs - II. The effects of absorption opacity on Faraday rotation Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 293: 1-17. DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-8711.1998.01107.X  0.612
1998 Magdziarz P, Blaes O. A Model of the Broad-Band Continuum of NGC 5548 Symposium - International Astronomical Union. 188: 430-431. DOI: 10.1017/S0074180900115876  0.312
1997 Blaes O, Hurt T, Antonucci R, Hurley K, Smette A. Infrared observations of the possible X-ray counterpart to the 1992 May 1 gamma-ray burst Astrophysical Journal. 479: 868-874. DOI: 10.1086/303924  0.668
1997 Blaes O, Agol E. Optical/Ultraviolet Continuum Polarization of AGN Accretion Disks International Astronomical Union Colloquium. 163: 610-614. DOI: 10.1017/S025292110004327X  0.575
1996 Agol E, Blaes O. Polarization from magnetized accretion discs in active galactic nuclei Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 282: 965-976. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/282.3.965  0.632
1996 Blaes O, Agol E. Polarization near the Lyman edge in accretion disk atmosphere models of quasars Astrophysical Journal. 469: L41-L44. DOI: 10.1086/310249  0.617
1995 Blaes O, Warren O, Madau P. Accreting, isolated neutron stars. III. Preheating of infalling gas and cometary H II regions Astrophysical Journal. 454: 370-381. DOI: 10.1086/176488  0.631
1994 Madau P, Blaes O. Constraints on accreting, isolated neutron stars from the Rosat and Euve surveys Astrophysical Journal. 423: 748-752. DOI: 10.1086/173854  0.649
1994 Blaes OM, Balbus SA. Local shear instabilities in weakly ionized, weakly magnetized disks Astrophysical Journal. 421: 163-177. DOI: 10.1086/173634  0.416
1994 Clarke TE, Blaes O, Tremaine S. Do gamma-ray bursts come from the Oort cloud? Astronomical Journal. 107: 1873-1878. DOI: 10.1086/116997  0.385
1993 Blaes O, Madau P. Can we observe accreting, isolated neutron stars? Astrophysical Journal. 403: 690-705. DOI: 10.1086/172240  0.641
1993 Webster R, Blaes O. Are Gamma-Ray Bursts At Cosmological Distances? Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 10: 271-274. DOI: 10.1017/S1323358000025856  0.32
1992 Blaes OM, Webster RL. Using gamma-ray bursts to detect a cosmological density of compact objects Astrophysical Journal. 391: L63-L66. DOI: 10.1086/186399  0.368
1992 Blaes OM, Blandford RD, Madau P, Yan L. On the evolution of slowly accreting neutron stars Astrophysical Journal. 399: 634-645. DOI: 10.1086/171955  0.717
1991 Blaes O, Rajagopal M. The statistics of slow interstellar accretion onto neutron stars The Astrophysical Journal. 381: 210. DOI: 10.1086/170642  0.435
1990 Blaes O, Blandford R, Madau P, Koonin S. Slowly accreting neutron stars and the origin of gamma-ray bursts Astrophysical Journal. 363: 612-627. DOI: 10.1086/169371  0.683
1990 Blaes OM, Goldreich PM, Vlllumsen JV. The dominant local instabilities in an Einstein-de Sitter universe Astrophysical Journal. 361: 331-337. DOI: 10.1086/169198  0.339
1989 Blaes O, Blandford R, Goldreich P, Madau P. Neutron starquake models for gamma-ray bursts The Astrophysical Journal. 343: 839. DOI: 10.1086/167754  0.673
1988 Blaes OM, Hawley JF. Nonaxisymmetric disk instabilities - a linear and nonlinear synthesis The Astrophysical Journal. 326: 277-291. DOI: 10.1086/166089  0.451
1987 Blaes OM. Stabilization of non-axisymmetric instabilities in a rotating flow by accretion on to a central black hole Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 227: 975-992. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/227.4.975  0.436
1987 Abramowicz MA, Blaes OM, Ghosh P. A new example of the Papaloizou-Pringle instability The Astrophysical Journal. 323: 629. DOI: 10.1086/165858  0.594
1986 Abramowicz MA, Blaes OM, Lu J. On the Papaloizou and Pringle instability. Astrophysics and Space Science Library. 121: 113-127. DOI: 10.1007/978-90-277-2155-6_8  0.566
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