PUBLICATIONS BY OMER BLAES

Published Papers

• "Turbulent Stresses in Local Simulations of Radiation-Dominated Accretion Disks, and the Possibility of the Lightman-Eardley Instability"
  S. Hirose, O. Blaes, and J. H. Krolik 2009, ApJ, 704, 781.
  [ADS Link]
• "The Effects of Magnetic Fields and Inhomogeneities on Accretion Disk Spectra and Polarization"
  S. W. Davis, O. M. Blaes, S. Hirose, and J. H. Krolik 2009, ApJ, 703, 569.
  [ADS Link]
• "Radiation-Dominated Disks are Thermally Stable"
  S. Hirose, J. H. Krolik, and O. Blaes 2009, ApJ, 691, 16.
  [ADS Link]
• "Epicyclic Motions and Standing Shocks in Numerically Simulated Tilted Black-Hole Accretion Disks"
  P. C. Fragile and O. M. Blaes 2008, ApJ, 687, 757.
  [ADS Link]
• "The characteristic blue spectra of accretion disks in quasars as uncovered in the infrared"
  M. Kishimoto, R. Antonucci, O. Blaes, A. Lawrence, C. Boisson, M. Albrecht, and C. Leipski 2008, Nature, 454, 492.
  [ADS Link]
• "3D Relativistic MHD Simulation of a Tilted Accretion Disk Around a Rapidly Rotating Black Hole"
  P. C. Fragile, P. Anninos, O. M. Blaes, and J. D. Salmonson 2008, in Proceedings of the 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, ed. H. Kleinert, R. T. Jantzen, and R. Ruffini, 1573-1575.
  [astro-ph/0701272]
• "The UV Continuum of Quasars: Models and SDSS Spectral Slopes"
  S. W. Davis, J.-H. Woo, and O. M. Blaes 2007, ApJ, 668, 682.
  [ADS Link]
• "Accretion Disks in AGNs"
  O. Blaes 2007, in The Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei, ed. L. C. Ho and J.-M. Wang (San Francisco: ASP), 75.
  [ADS Link]
• "The near-IR shape of the big blue bump emission from quasars: under the hot dust emission"
  M. Kishimoto, R. Antonucci, and O. Blaes 2007, in The Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei, ed. L. C. Ho and J.-M. Wang (San Francisco: ASP), 105.
  [ADS Link]
• "Global General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation of a Tilted Black-Hole Accretion Disk"
  P. C. Fragile, O. M. Blaes, P. Anninos, and J. D. Salmonson 2007, ApJ, 668, 417.
  [ADS Link]
• "Epicyclic Oscillations of Fluid Bodies: Newtonian Nonslender Torus"
  O. M. Blaes, E. Sramkova, M. A. Abramowicz, W. Kluzniak, and U. Torkelsson 2007, ApJ, 665, 642.
  [ADS Link]
• "Surface Structure in an Accretion Disk Annulus with Comparable Radiation and Gas Pressure"
  O. Blaes, S. Hirose, and J. H. Krolik 2007, ApJ, 664, 1057.
  [ADS Link]
• "Thermodynamics of an Accretion Disk Annulus with Comparable Radiation and Gas Pressure"
  J. H. Krolik, S. Hirose, and O. Blaes 2007, ApJ, 664, 1045.
  [ADS Link]
• "Turbulent Comptonization in Relativistic Accretion Disks"
  A. Socrates, S. W. Davis, and O. Blaes 2006, AdSpR, 38, 2880.
  [ADS Link]
• "Testing Accretion Disk Theory in Black Hole X-ray Binaries"
  S. W. Davis, C. Done, and O. M. Blaes 2006, ApJ, 647, 525-538.
  [ADS Link]
• "Quasi-Periodic Oscillations from Magnetorotational Turbulence"
  P. Arras, O. Blaes, and N. J. Turner 2006, ApJ, 645, L65-L68.
  [ADS Link]
• "Magnetic Pressure Support and Accretion Disk Spectra"
  O. M. Blaes, S. W. Davis, S. Hirose, J. H. Krolik, and J. M. Stone 2006, ApJ, 645, 1402-1407.
  [ADS Link]
• "Oscillation Modes of Relativistic Slender Tori"
  O. M. Blaes, P. Arras, and P. C. Fragile 2006, MNRAS, 369, 1235-1252.
  [ADS Link]
• "Epicyclic oscillations of fluid bodies: II. Strong Gravity"
  M. A. Abramowicz, O. M. Blaes, J. Horak, W. Kluzniak, and P. Rebusco 2006, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 23, 1689-1696.
  [ADS Link]
• "Revealing AGN by Polarimetry"
  M. Kishimoto, R. Antonucci, C. Boisson, and O. Blaes 2005, in Astronomical Polarimetry: Current Status and Future Directions, ASP Conference Series 343, eds. A. Adamson, C. Aspin, & C. J. Davis, 435.
  [ADS Link]
• ``The dust-eliminated shape of quasar spectra in the near-infrared: a hidden part of the big blue bump''
  M. Kishimoto, R. Antonucci, and O. Blaes 2005, MNRAS, 364, 640-648.
  [ADS Link]
• "The Neutrino Bubble Instability: A Mechanism for Generating Pulsar Kicks"
  A. Socrates, O. Blaes, A. Hungerford, and C. L. Fryer 2005, ApJ, 632, 531-562.
  [ADS Link]
• "The Effects of Photon Bubble Instability in Radiation-Dominated Accretion Disks"
  N. J. Turner, O. M. Blaes, A. Socrates, M. C. Begelman, and S. W. Davis 2005, ApJ, 624, 267-288.
  [ADS Link]
• "Relativistic Accretion Disk Models of High State Black Hole X-ray Binary Spectra"
  S. W. Davis, O. M. Blaes, I. Hubeny, and N. J. Turner 2005, ApJ, 621, 372-387.
  [ADS Link]
• "Quasars and the Big Blue Bump"
  Z. Shang, M. S. Brotherton, R. F. Green, G. A. Kriss, J. Scott, J. K. Quijano, O. Blaes, I. Hubeny, J. Hutchings, M. E. Kaiser, A. Koratkar, W. Oegerle, and W. Zheng 2005, ApJ, 619, 41-59.
  [ADS Link]
• "The buried Balmer-edge signatures from quasars"
  M. Kishimoto, R. Antonucci, C. Boisson, and O. Blaes 2004, MNRAS, 354, 1065-1092.
  [ADS Link]
• "Accretion around supermassive black holes: the detection of the Balmer edge signature from quasars"
  M. Kishimoto, R. Antonucci, C. Boisson, and O. Blaes 2004, in Stellar mass, intermediate mass, and supermassive black holes, Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, No. 155, 166-169.
  [ADS link]
• "Photon Bubbles in Young Massive Stars"
  N. J. Turner, H. W. Yorke, A. Socrates, and O. M. Blaes 2004, in Gravitational Collapse: from Massive Stars to Planets, G. Garcia-Segura, G. Tenorio-Tagle, J. Franco, and H. W. Yorke, eds., Rev. Mex. AASC, 22, 54-57.
  [ADS Link]
• "Using Multiwavelength Observations to Estimate the Black Hole Masses and Accretion Rates in Seyfert Galaxies"
  J. Chiang and O. Blaes 2004, in AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, ASP Conference Series, G. T. Richards and P. B. Hall, eds., 127-130.
  [astro-ph/0311262]
• "The Shape of the Big Blue Bump as Revealed by Spectropolarimetry"
  R. Antonucci, M, Kishimoto, C. Boisson, and O. Blaes 2004, in AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, ASP Conference Series, G. T. Richards and P. B. Hall, eds., 381-384.
  [astro-ph/0311153]
• "Accretion Disks Based on Real Physics"
  O. Blaes 2004, in AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, ASP Conference Series, G. T. Richards and P. B. Hall, eds., 121-126.
  [Postscript file of paper]
• "Effects of Fluid Instabilities on Accretion Disk Spectra"
  S. Davis, O. Blaes, N. Turner, and A. Socrates 2004, in AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, ASP Conference Series, G. T. Richards and P. B. Hall, eds., 135-138.
  [Postscript file of paper]
• "X-ray Reflection from Inhomogeneous Accretion Disks: I. Toy Models and Photon Bubbles"
  D. R. Ballantyne, N. J. Turner, and O. M. Blaes 2004, ApJ, 603, 436-448.
  [ADS Link]
• "Turbulent Comptonization in Black Hole Accretion Disks"
  A. Socrates, S. W. Davis, and O. Blaes 2004, ApJ, 601, 405-413.
  [ADS Link]
• ``Physics Fundamentals of Luminous Accretion Disks Around Black Holes'',
  O. M. Blaes 2003, in "Accretion Disks, Jets, and High Energy Phenomena in Astrophysics", Proceedings of Session LXXVIII of Les Houches Summer School, Chamonix, France, August 2002, V. Beskin, G. Henri, F.Menard, and J. Dalibard eds. (EDP Science: Paris and Springer: Berlin), 137-185.
  [ADS Link]
• "Local Radiative Hydrodynamic and Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities in Optically Thick Media"
  O. Blaes and A. Socrates 2003, ApJ, 596, 509-537.
  [ADS Link]
• "A First Close Look at the Balmer Edge Behavior of the Quasar Big Blue Bump"
  M. Kishimoto, R. Antonucci, and O. Blaes 2003, MNRAS, 345, 253-260.
  [ADS Link]
• "A First Close Look at the Balmer-edge Behavior of the Quasar Big Blue Bump",
  M. Kishimoto, R. Antonucci, and O. Blaes 2003, in "Active Galactic Nuclei: from Central Engine to Host Galaxy", ASP Conference Series, vol. 290, S. Collin, F. Combes, and I. Shlosman eds., 217.
  [astro-ph/0212259]
• ``Using Multiwavelength Observations to Determine the Black Hole Mass and Accretion Rate in the Type 1 Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5548'',
  J. Chiang and O. Blaes 2003, ApJ, 586, 97-111.
  [ADS link]
• ``The Kozai Mechanism and the Evolution of Binary Supermassive Black Holes''
  O. Blaes, M. H. Lee, and A. Socrates 2002, ApJ, 578, 775-786.
  [ADS link]
  (See also the poster presentation at the ITP 2002 Black Hole conference.)
• ``Non-LTE, Relativistic Accretion Disk Fits to 3C 273 and the Origin of the Lyman Limit Spectral Break''
  O. Blaes, I. Hubeny, E. Agol, and J. H. Krolik 2001, ApJ, 563, 560-568.
  [ADS link]
• ``Thermal Emission from Accretion Disks''
  O. M. Blaes, I. Hubeny, E. Agol, and J. H. Krolik 2001, in JHU/LHEA Workshop on X-Ray Emission from Accretion onto Black Holes, eds. T. Yaqoob and J. H. Krolik.
  [ADS link]
• ``Thermal Comptonization and Disk Thermal Reprocessing in Type 1 Seyfert Galaxies''
  J. Chiang and O. M. Blaes 2001, in JHU/LHEA Workshop on X-Ray Emission from Accretion onto Black Holes, eds. T. Yaqoob and J. H. Krolik.
  [ADS link]
• ``Non-LTE Models and Theoretical Spectra of Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei. IV. Effects of Compton Scattering and Metal Opacities''
  I. Hubeny, O. Blaes, J. H. Krolik, and E. Agol 2001, ApJ, 559, 680-702.
  [ADS link]
• ``Thermal Comptonization and Disk Thermal Reprocessing in NGC 3516''
  J. Chiang and O. Blaes 2001, ApJ, 557, L15-L18.
  [ADS link]
• ``The puzzle of the Lyman continuum polarization of QSOs''
  G. A. Shields, E. Agol, and O. Blaes 2001, in The Seventh Texas-Mexico Conference on Astrophysics: Flows, Blows, and Glows, ed. W. Lee and S. Torres-Peimbert, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica (Serie de Conferencias), 10, 87-95.
  [astro-ph/0010073]
• ``Local Dynamical Instabilities in Magnetized, Radiation Pressure Supported Accretion Disks''
  O. Blaes and A. Socrates 2001, ApJ, 553, 987-998.
  [ADS link]
• ``Keck Mid-Infrared Imaging of QSO 2237+0305''
  E. Agol, B. Jones, and O. Blaes 2000, ApJ, 545, 657-663.
  [ADS link]
• ``Supermassive Black Holes As Gravitational Wave Sources for LISA''
  O. Blaes 2000, in Gravitational Waves, Third Edoardo Amaldi Conference, ed. S. Meshkov, (Melville, NY: AIP), 248-254.
  [Postscript file of paper]
• ``Non-LTE Models and Theoretical Spectra of Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei III. Integrated Spectra for Hydrogen-Helium Disks''
  I. Hubeny, E. Agol, O. Blaes, and J. Krolik 2000, ApJ, 533, 710-728.
  [ADS link]
• ``Simultaneous EUVE/ASCA/RXTE Observations of NGC 5548''
  J. Chiang, C. S. Reynolds, O. M. Blaes, M. A. Nowak, N. Murray, G. Madejski, H. L. Marshall, and P. Magdziarz 2000, ApJ, 528, 292-305.
  [ADS link]
• ``Variability of the UV/Soft X-ray Continuum in NGC 5548''
  P. Magdziarz, O. Blaes, and G. Madejski 1999, in High Energy Processes in Accreting Black Holes, eds. J. Poutanen and R. Svensson, (San Francisco: ASP), 204-209.
  [Postscript file of paper]
• ``The ultraviolet and optical continuum emission in active galactic nuclei: the status of accretion disks''
  A. Koratkar and O. Blaes 1999, PASP, 111, 1-30.
  [ADS link]
• ``General relativity as seen in X-rays: What can LISA tell us that we don't already know?''
  O. Blaes 1998, in Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, Second International LISA Symposium on the Detection and Observation of Gravitational Waves in Space, ed. W. Folkner, (Woodbury, NY: AIP), 57-60.
  [Postscript file of paper]
• ``A spectral decomposition of the variable optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray continuum of NGC 5548''
  P. Magdziarz, O. M. Blaes, A. A. Zdziarski, W. N. Johnson, and D. A. Smith 1998, MNRAS, 301, 179-192.
  [ADS link]
• ``Compton scattering of polarized radiation in two phase accretion disks in active galactic nuclei''
  C.-M. Hsu and O. Blaes 1998, ApJ, 506, 658-672.
  [ADS link]
• ``A model of the broad-band continuum of NGC 5548''
  P. Magdziarz and O. Blaes 1998, in The Hot Universe, Proceedings of the 188th Symposium of the IAU, eds. K. Koyama, S. Kitamoto, \& M. Itoh (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 430-431.
  [astro-ph/9710183]
• ``Optical/Ultraviolet Continuum Emission Theory in Radio Quiet Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei''
  O. Blaes 1998, in Accretion Processes in Astrophysical Systems: Some Like It Hot!, eds. S. S. Holt and T. R. Kallman, (Woodbury, NY: AIP), 161-170.
  [astro-ph/9712347]
• ``Continuum Spectra of Quasar Accretion Disk Models''
  E. Agol, I. Hubeny, and O. Blaes 1998, in Accretion Processes in Astrophysical Systems: Some Like It Hot!, eds. S. S. Holt and T. R. Kallman, (Woodbury, NY: AIP), 175-178.
  [astro-ph/9712162]
• ``Magnetohydrodynamics in the extreme relativistic limit''
  C. Thompson and O. Blaes 1998, Phys. Rev. D, 57, 3219-3234.
  [ADS Link]
• ``Polarization from magnetized accretion discs: II. The effects of absorption opacity on Faraday rotation''
  E. Agol, O. Blaes, and C. Ionescu-Zanetti 1998, MNRAS, 293, 1-17.
  [ADS link]
• ``Broad-band continuum and variability of NGC 5548''
  P. Magdziarz, O. Blaes, A. A. Zdziarski, W. N. Johnson, and D. A. Smith 1997, in Proceedings of the 4th Compton Symposium, eds. C. D. Dermer, and J. D. Kurfess, (Woodbury, NY: AIP), 1288-1292.
  [astro-ph/9707202]
• ``Optical/Ultraviolet Continuum Polarization of AGN Accretion Disks''
  O. Blaes and E. Agol 1997, in Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows, IAU Colloquium 163, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 121, D. T. Wickramasinghe, L. Ferrario, and G. V. Bicknell, (San Francisco: ASP), 610-614.
• ``GRB 920501''
  M. J. Drinkwater, L. A. Jones, O. M. Blaes, T. Hurt, R. Antonucci, and K. Hurley 1997, IAU Circular No. 6600.
• ``Infrared Observations of the Possible X-ray Counterpart to the May 1, 1992 Gamma-Ray Burst''
  O. Blaes, T. Hurt, R. Antonucci, K. Hurley, and A. Smette 1997, ApJ, 479, 868-874.
  [ADS link] See also IAU Circular 6600.
• ``Polarization Near the Lyman Edge in Accretion Disk Atmosphere Models of Quasars''
  O. Blaes and E. Agol 1996, ApJ, 469, L41-L44.
  [ADS link]
• ``Deep Infrared Imaging of the Putative X-ray Counterpart to GRB920501''
  O. Blaes, R. Antonucci, K. Hurley, and T. Hurt 1996, in Gamma-ray bursts: 3rd Huntsville Symposium, C. Kouveliotou, M. F. Briggs, G. J. Fishman, (New York: AIP), 589-593.
• ``Polarization from magnetized accretion disks in active galactic nuclei''
  E. Agol and O. Blaes 1996, MNRAS, 282, 965-976.
  [ADS link]
• ``Accreting, isolated neutron stars: III. Preheating of infalling gas and cometary HII regions''
  O. Blaes, O. Warren, and P. Madau 1995, ApJ, 454, 370-381.
  [ADS link]
• ``Coalescence of neutron star binaries''
  O. Blaes 1994, in The Evolution of X-Ray Binaries, eds. S. S. Holt and C. S. Day, (New York: AIP), 245-254.
  
• ``Do gamma-ray bursts come from the Oort cloud?''
  T. E. Clarke, O. Blaes, and S. Tremaine 1994, AJ, 107, 1873-1878.
  [ADS link]
• ``Theories of gamma-ray bursts''
  O. M. Blaes 1994, ApJS, 92, 643-649.
  [ADS link]
• ``Constraints on accreting, isolated neutron stars from the ROSAT and EUVE surveys''
  P. Madau and O. Blaes 1994, ApJ, 423, 748-752.
  [ADS link]
• ``Local shear instabilities in weakly ionized, weakly magnetized disks''
  O. M. Blaes and S. A. Balbus 1994, ApJ, 421, 163-177.
  [ADS link]
• ``Can we observe accreting, isolated neutron stars?''
  O. Blaes and P. Madau 1993, ApJ, 403, 690-705.
  [ADS link]
• ``Are gamma-ray bursts at cosmological distances?''
  R. Webster, and O. Blaes 1993, PASAu, 10, 271-273.
  [ADS link]
• ``On the evolution of slowly accreting neutron stars''
  O. M. Blaes, R. D. Blandford, P. Madau, and L. Yan 1992, ApJ, 399, 634-645.
  [ADS link]
• ``Using gamma-ray bursts to detect a cosmological density of compact objects''
  O. M. Blaes and R. L. Webster 1992, ApJ, 391, L63-L66.
  [ADS link]
• ``The statistics of slow interstellar accretion onto neutron stars''
  O. Blaes and M. Rajagopal 1991, ApJ, 381, 210-219.
  [ADS link]
• ``Slowly accreting neutron stars and the origin of gamma-ray bursts''
  O. Blaes, R. Blandford, P. Madau, and S. Koonin 1990, ApJ, 363, 612-627.
  [ADS link]
• ``The dominant local instabilities in an Einstein-de Sitter universe''
  O. M. Blaes, P. M. Goldreich, and J. V. Villumsen 1990, ApJ, 361, 331-337.
  [ADS link]
• ``Neutron starquakes and the nature of gamma-ray bursts''
  P. Madau, O. Blaes, R. Blandford, and P. Goldreich 1989, in Proceedings of the 1988 International School of Plasma Astrophysics, Varenna, Italy, eds. T. D. Guyenne and J. J. Hunt, (Noordwijk: ESA), 247-250.
  [ADS link]
• ``Neutron starquake models for gamma-ray bursts''
  O. Blaes, R. Blandford, P. Goldreich, and P. Madau 1989, ApJ, 343, 839-848.
  [ADS link]
• ``Nonaxisymmetric disk instabilities: a linear and nonlinear synthesis''
  O. Blaes, and J. Hawley 1988, ApJ, 326, 277-291.
  [ADS link]
• ``The stability of thick accretion disks''
  O. Blaes 1988, in Supermassive Black Holes, ed. M. Kafatos, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 334-343.
  [ADS link]
• ``A new example of the Papaloizou-Pringle instability''
  M. Abramowicz, O. Blaes, and P. Ghosh 1987, ApJ, 323, 629-633.
  [ADS link]
• ``Stabilization of non-axisymmetric instabilities in a rotating flow by accretion on to a central black hole''
  O. M. Blaes 1987, MNRAS, 227, 975-992.
  [ADS link]
• ``On the stability of incompressible constant angular momentum cylinders''
  O. Blaes, and W. Glatzel 1986, MNRAS, 220, 253-258.
  [ADS link]
• ``On the Papaloizou and Pringle instability''
  M. Abramowicz, O. Blaes, and J. Lu 1986, in Structure and Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei, ed. G. Giuricin et al., (Dordrecht: Reidel), 113-127.
  [ADS link]
• ``Oscillations of slender tori''
  O. Blaes 1985, MNRAS, 216, 553-563.
  [ADS link]
• ``An upper limit to the growth rate of instabilities in constant specific angular momentum tori''
  O. Blaes 1985, MNRAS, 212, 37P-40P.
  [ADS link]