| Jonathan McKinney is postdoctoral Chandra fellow at Stanford/KIPAC . He obtained his Ph.D. from the Physics Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Research Interests: - Accretion disk theory near central objects (disk+corona+wind+jet, or just the magnetosphere)
- Numerical modelling of any interesting problem not easy to solve analytically
- Large-scale structure of the inflow and wind/jet outflow from accreting systems
- GR perturbation theory
- Radiative (e.g., Comptonization and synchrotron) effects that modify the jet speed and structure
Objects of interest include: - Black holes, such as associated with gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei, and x-ray binaries
- Neutron stars, such as associated with gamma-ray bursts and x-ray binaries
- White dwarfs, such as super-soft x-ray and symbiotic systems
- Noncompact objects such as Young Stellar Objects (YSOs).
Of particular interest is the structure of the accretion flow or outflows in systems such as: - Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Active Galactic Nuclei
- Black hole and neutron star X-ray Binaries
- Pulsars and Magnetars
In development: - new WENO-type scheme for GRMHD
- 3D GRMHD code
- Resistive GRMHD code extension to study zeroth order resistivity effects
- GR particle in cell (PIC) code extension to study completely self-consistent particle effects
- Dynamical space-time GR code in conservative form
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M87 Jet (Hubble)
Crab Nebula (Chandra)
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