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Research Interests
I am a fifth year graduate student in theoretical astrophysics at the University of Washington. My primary interest is in connecting modern simulations of accreting black hole systems to current and future observations using relativistic radiative transfer. As a tool towards this end, I've written Geokerr, a code to rapidly calculate photon trajectories in the vicinity of a spinning black hole. It is freely available for use by the community. I've used this code to produce images and light curves from relativistic MHD simulations to model synchrotron emission from the Galactic center black hole at millimeter wavelengths, and to study the unique observational properties of tilted black hole accretion disks. Finally, I've argued that quasar accretion disks are inhomogeneous.
Contact
Jason Dexter (jdexter at u.washington.edu)Department of Physics
University of Washington
Box 351550
Seattle, WA 98195-1550
Advisor:Eric Agol