Dr. Bart Ripperda

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsAstrophysics,Plasma Physics
KeywordsParticle acceleration, Magnetohydrodynamics, Black Holes and Neutron Stars, Relativistic Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves

Current contact address

CountryCanada
CityToronto
InstitutionUniversity of Toronto
InstituteCanadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Homepagehttps://www.cita.utoronto.ca

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Luciano RezzollaInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2019

Programme(s)

2018Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2019The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The shadow of the supermassive black hole . In: ApJL, 2019,
2019The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. III. Data processing and calibration . In: ApJL, 2019,
2019The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Imaging the central supermassive black hole . In: ApJL, 2019,
2019The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Physical origin of the asymmetric ring . In: ApJL, 2019,
2019The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. The shadow and mass of the central black hole . In: ApJL, 2019,
2019B. Ripperda, F. Bacchini, O. Porth, E.R. Most, H. Olivares, A. Nathanail, L. Rezzolla, J. Teunissen, R. Keppens : General relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics with robust primitive variable recovery for accretion disk simulations . In: ApJS, 2019,
2019F. Bacchini, B. Ripperda, O. Porth, L. Sironi: Generalized, energy conserving numerical simulations of particles in general relativity. II. Test particles in electromagnetic fields and GRMHD . In: ApJS, 2019,
2019M. Leroy, B. Ripperda, R. Keppens: Particle orbits at the magnetopause: Kelvin-Helmholtz induced trapping . In: J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics , 2019,
2019B. Ripperda, O. Porth, L. Sironi, R. Keppens: Relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamic reconnection and plasmoid formation in merging flux tubes . In: MNRAS, 2019,
2019B. Ripperda, O. Porth, R. Keppens: Test particles in relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics . In: J. Phys.: Conf. Ser, 2019, 012018
2019The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: The event horizon general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code comparison project . In: ApJS, 2019,
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. Array and instrumentation . In: ApJL, ,