Luciano Rezzolla
Department of Physics
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
Prof. Dr. Luciano Rezzolla a relativistic astrophysicist, i.e., a physicist who uses Einstein’s theory of general relativity to describe and explain high-energy astronomical observations of black holes and neutron stars. To do this he combines analytical perturbative tools with numerical nonlinear simulations in which he solves the Einstein equations together with those of relativistic hydrodynamics or magnetohydrodynamics. he do this in the endless process of comparing theoretical results and predictions with astronomical observations.he is presently the Chair of Theoretical (Relativistic) Astrophysics and Director at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP) of the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. he is also Senior Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS).
Research Interest
Relativistic hydrodynamics Binary black holes Binary neutron stars
Publications
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Rezzolla, L., & Ahmedov, B. J. (2016). Electromagnetic fields in the exterior of an oscillating relativistic star–II. Electromagnetic damping. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459(4), 4144-4160.
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Radice, D., Galeazzi, F., Lippuner, J., Roberts, L. F., Ott, C. D., & Rezzolla, L. (2016). Dynamical mass ejection from binary neutron star mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(3), 3255-3271.
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Murguia-Berthier, A., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Montes, G., De Colle, F., Rezzolla, L., Rosswog, S., ... & Lee, W. H. (2017). The properties of short gamma-ray burst jets triggered by neutron star mergers. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 835(2), L34.
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Younsi, Z., Zhidenko, A., Rezzolla, L., Konoplya, R., & Mizuno, Y. (2016). New method for shadow calculations: Application to parametrized axisymmetric black holes. Physical Review D, 94(8), 084025.
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Hanauske, M., Takami, K., Bovard, L., Rezzolla, L., Font, J. A., Galeazzi, F., & Stöcker, H. (2017). Rotational properties of hypermassive neutron stars from binary mergers. Physical Review D, 96(4), 043004.
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Porth, O., Olivares, H., Mizuno, Y., Younsi, Z., Rezzolla, L., Moscibrodzka, M., ... & Kramer, M. (2017). The black hole accretion code. Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology, 4(1), 1.
