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José A. de Freitas Pacheco

Publications and source records attributed to José A. de Freitas Pacheco.

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arXiv2022

Branch-Cut Cosmology and the Bekenstein Criterion

In this contribution we address the implications of the Bekenstein Criterion in the branch-cut cosmology. The impossibility of packaging energy and entropy according to the Bekenstein Criterion in a finite size makes the transition phase of the branch-cut cosmology very peculiar, imposing a topological leap between the contraction and expansion phases of the primordial universe or a transition region similar to a wormhole, with space-time shaping itself topologically in the format of a helix-format around a branch point. Singularity means that there is no way for space-time to begin smoothly. The branch-cut cosmology alternatively proposes a non-temporal beginning at all, a pure space configuration, through a Wick rotation which replaces the imaginary time component by the temperature, the cosmological time.

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arXiv2019

Quasi-normal modes of black holes and naked singularities: revisiting the WKB method

In this paper we revisit the analysis of the ringdown frequencies in the form of quasi-normal modes for Schwarzschild,Schwarzschild de-Sitter and Reissner-Nordström space-times. We plot these frequencies, using the third-order WKB semi-analytical method against the mass, charge and cosmological constant for each corresponding space-time for various different spin-fields. We verify the stability of each black hole solution, including the extremal Reissner-Nordström space-time. Finally, we discover four different traits for the Schwarzschild de-Sitter space-time: i) the frequencies vanish in the extremal case; ii) the frequencies swap behavior before and after the extremal value; iii) indication that the naked singularity is stable for positive mass; iv) for the naked singularity case, there exists a cut-off mass in the scalar-field perturbation which depends only on the multipole number $\ell$.

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arXiv2013

Evolution of the phase-space density and the Jeans scale for dark matter derived from the Vlasov-Einstein equation

We discuss solutions of Vlasov-Einstein equation for collisionless dark matter particles in the context of a flat Friedmann universe. We show that, after decoupling from the primordial plasma, the dark matter phase-space density indicator Q remains constant during the expansion of the universe, prior to structure formation. This well known result is valid for non-relativistic particles and is not "observer dependent" as in solutions derived from the Vlasov-Poisson system. In the linear regime, the inclusion of velocity dispersion effects permits to define a physical Jeans length for collisionless matter as function of the primordial phase-space density indicator: λ_J = (5π/G)^(1/2)Q^(-1/3)ρ_dm^(-1/6). The comoving Jeans wavenumber at matter-radiation equality is smaller by a factor of 2-3 than the comoving wavenumber due to free-streaming, contributing to the cut-off of the density fluctuation power spectrum at the lowest scales. We discuss the physical differences between these two scales. For dark matter particles of mass equal to 200 GeV, the derived Jeans mass is 4.3 x 10^(-6) solar masses.

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arXiv2011

Tidal Disruption Flares: The Accretion Disk Phase

The evolution of an accretion disk, formed as a consequence of the disruption of a star by a black hole, is followed by solving numerically the hydrodynamic equations. The present investigation aims to study the dependence of resulting light curves on dynamical and physical properties of such a transient disk during its existence. One of main results derived from our simulations is that black body fits of X-ray data tend to overestimate the true mean disk temperature. The temperature derived from black body fits should be identified with the color X-ray temperature rather than the average value derived from the true temperature distribution along the disk. The time interval between the beginning of the circularization of the bound debris and the beginning of the accretion process by the black hole is determined by the viscous timescale, which fixes also the raising part of the resulting light curve. The luminosity peak coincides with the beginning of matter accretion by the black hole and the late evolution of the light curve depends on the evolution of the debris fallback rate. Peak bolometric luminosities are in the range 10^45-10^46 erg s^-1 whereas peak luminosities in soft X-rays (0.2-2.0 keV) are typically one order of magnitude lower. The timescale derived from our preferred models for the flare luminosity to decay by two orders of magnitude is about 3-4 years. Predicted soft X-ray light curves were fitted to data on galaxies in which a variable X-ray emission, related to tidal events, was detected.

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arXiv2011

Hubble flow around Fornax cluster of galaxies

Aims. This work aims to provide a new mass estimate for the Fornax cluster and the Fornax-Eridanus complex, avoiding methods like the virial or fits of X-ray emission profile, which assume that the system is in equilibrium, probably not the case of Fornax, still in process of formation. Methods. Our mass estimate is based on the determination of the zero-velocity surface which, in the context of the spherical infall model permits an evaluation of the total mass inside such a surface. The zero-velocity surface radius R0 was estimated either by a running median procedure or by fitting the data to the velocity field expected from the spherical model, including effects of the cosmological constant. The velocity field in a region within 20 Mpc of the Fornax center was mapped using a list of 109 galaxies whose distances have an average accuracy of 0.31 mag in their distance modulus. Results. Our analysis indicates that the mass of the Fornax cluster itself inside a radius of [2.62-5.18] Mpc is [0.40-3.32] \times 10^14 Modotwhile the mass inside [3.88-5.60] Mpc, corresponding to the Fornax-Eridanus complex is [1.30-3.93] \times 10^14 M\odot.

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