My research interests can be outlined to be:
Compact objects: Structure and global properties of compact objects related to the multipole moments spectrum and the surrounding spacetime. Universal properties (EOS independent) of compact objects and no-hair-like structure of their multipole moments.
Multipole moments in General Relativity: Geroch-Hansen-Fodor moments. Their application in the construction of analytic spacetimes suitable for astrophysical applications and their use as probing tools for astrophysical systems such as XRBs.
Stationary axisymmetric spacetimes in GR: Methods for generating solutions of the Einstein field equations in vacuum, ie., the Ernst formulation, the Geroch transformation and the method of generating asymptotically flat vacuum spacetimes developed by Sibgatullin and Manko. Applications:
• Connection of the Ernst potential to Astrophysical sources using multipole moments.
• Construction of analytic metrics for describing the exterior of compact objects, with application to astrophysical problems such as rotating neutron stars, accretion disks and QPOs.
• Probe issues concerning the nature of compact objects and their deviation from classical GR solutions like Schwarzschild and Kerr.
Multipole moments beyond GR: Definition of multipole moments in alternative theories of gravity, such as for example, scalar-tensor theories of gravity. Multipolar structure of compact objects in alternative theories and observational implications.
Rotating spacetimes beyond GR: Rotating spacetimes in alternative theories of gravity, i.e., their properties and their astrophysical signatures. Testing GR and alternative theories by means of astrophysical observations.
Exotic Compact Objects, Black Hole Mimickers, and Gravitational Waves: Ultra-compact objects within and beyond GR that can emulate BHs in their compactness and possible signatures that could distinguish them from BHs, such as differences in their QNMs that could be picked up by GW spectroscopy or inspiral GW signals. GW tests of GR, BHs, the Kerr hypothesis and theories beyond GR.
Gravitational lensing from compact objects, Black Hole Shadows, and tests of GR and the Kerr nature of BHs: Imaging of ultra-compact objects such as black holes or exotic alternatives. Calculation of shadows, chaotic lensing and other lensing characteristics that may be used as probes of the nature of the compact object and test GR.
The youtube channel of our Gravitational Waves research group in Thessaloniki.
This is a list of my work published in refereed journals or refereed conference proceedings (or sometimes not).
[1] T P Sotiriou and G Pappas 2005 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 8 23, Extending Sibgatullin's ansatz for the Ernst potential to generate a richer family of axially symmetric solutions of Einstein's equations (arXiv:gr-qc/0504122),
[2] G Pappas and T A Apostolatos 2008 Class. Quantum Grav. 25 228002, Faithful transformation of quasi-isotropic to WeylPapapetrou coordinates: a prerequisite to compare metrics (extended version arXiv:0803.0602v1 [gr-qc]),
[3] George Pappas 2009 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 189 012028, Matching of analytical and numerical solutions for neutron stars of arbitrary rotation (also on arXiv:1201.6055 [gr-qc] with a correction in M_4), update: the correct moment should have been,
[4] George Pappas, 2012 MNRAS, 422, 2581-2589, What can QPOs tell us about the structure of the corresponding compact objects?, (arXiv:1201.6071 [astro-ph.HE]),
[5] G Pappas and T A Apostolatos, 2012 Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 231104 , "Revising the multipole moments of numerical spacetimes, and its consequences", (arXiv:1201.6067 [gr-qc]).
[6] G Pappas and T A Apostolatos, 2013 MNRAS, 429, 3007-3024, "An all-purpose metric for the exterior of any kind of rotating neutron star", arXiv:1209.6148 [gr-qc], Additional material can be found at this URL.
[7] G Pappas and T A Apostolatos, NEB 15 conference proceedings (was supposed to appear in J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.), "Multipole Moments of numerical spacetimes", arXiv:1211.6299 [gr-qc] (there is an obvious typo in eq. 4).
[8] T. A. Apostolatos, G. Pappas, and K. Chatziioannou, NEB 15 conference proceedings (J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 453 (2013) 012001), "A Newtonian problem as an insightful tool for the behavior of gravitational-wave sources".
[9] G Pappas and TA Apostolatos, 2014 Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 121101, "Effectively Universal Behavior of Rotating Neutron Stars in General Relativity Makes Them Even Simpler than Their Newtonian Counterparts", (arXiv:1311.5508 [gr-qc]). Editor's Suggestion.
[10] Kent Yagi, Koutarou Kyutoku, George Pappas, Nicolas Yunes, and Theocharis A. Apostolatos, 2014 Phys. Rev. D 89, 124013, "Effective no-hair relations for neutron stars and quark stars: Relativistic results", (arXiv:1403.6243 [gr-qc]).
[11] Kent Yagi, Leo C. Stein, George Pappas, Nicolas Yunes, and Theocharis A. Apostolatos, 2014 Phys. Rev. D 90, 063010, "Why I-Love-Q: Explaining why universality emerges in compact objects", (arXiv:1406.7587 [gr-qc]).
[12] G Pappas and T P Sotiriou, 2015 Phys. Rev. D 91, 044011, "Multipole moments in scalar-tensor theory of gravity" (arXiv:1412.3494 [gr-qc]).
[13] Kostas Glampedakis, George Pappas, Hector O. Silva, Emanuele Berti, 2015 Phys. Rev. D 92, 024056, "Post-Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff formalism for relativistic stars", (arXiv:1504.02455 [gr-qc]).
[14] George Pappas, Thomas P. Sotiriou, "Geodesic properties in terms of multipole moments in scalar-tensor theories of gravity", 2015 MNRAS 453, 2862-2876 (arXiv:1505.02882 [gr-qc]).
[15] George Pappas, "Unified description of astrophysical properties of neutron stars independent of the equation of state", 2015 MNRAS 454, 4066-4084 (arXiv:1506.07225 [astro-ph.HE]).
[16] David Tsang and George Pappas, "Self-Trapping of Diskoseismic Corrugation Modes in Neutron Star Spacetimes", 2016 ApJ, 818, L11 (arXiv:1511.01948 [astro-ph.HE]).
[17] Kostas Glampedakis, George Pappas, Hector O. Silva, Emanuele Berti, 2016 Phys. Rev. D 94, 044030, "Astrophysical applications of the post-Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff formalism" (arXiv:1606.05106 [gr-qc]). Editor's Suggestion.
[18] George Pappas, 2017 MNRAS, 466, 4381-4394, "An accurate metric for the spacetime around rotating neutron stars" (arXiv:1610.05370 [gr-qc]).
[19] Kostas Glampedakis, George Pappas, Hector O. Silva, Emanuele Berti, 2017 Phys. Rev. D 96, 064054, "Post-Kerr black hole spectroscopy" (arXiv:1706.07658 [gr-qc]).
[20] Daniela D. Doneva, George Pappas, "Universal Relations and Alternative Gravity Theories", arXiv:1709.08046 [gr-qc]. Chapter 13 of the book "The Physics and Astrophysics of Neutron Stars", Editors: Rezzolla, L., Pizzochero, P., Jones, D.I., Rea, N., Vidaña, I., Springer (2018), NewCompStar COST Action 1304.
[21] Kostas Glampedakis, George Pappas, 2018 Phys. Rev. D 97, 041502(R), "How well can ultracompact bodies imitate black hole ringdowns?" (arXiv:1710.02136 [gr-qc]).
[22] George Pappas, Kostas Glampedakis, "On the connection of spacetime separability and spherical photon orbits", arXiv:1806.04091 [gr-qc].
[23] Kostas Glampedakis, George Pappas, 2019 Phys. Rev. D 99, 124041, "The modification of photon trapping orbits as a diagnostic of non-Kerr spacetimes", (arXiv:1806.09333 [gr-qc]).
[24] George Pappas, Daniela D. Doneva, Thomas P. Sotiriou, Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev, Kostas D. Kokkotas, 2019 Phys. Rev. D 99, 104014, "Multipole moments and universal relations for scalarized neutron stars" (arXiv:1812.01117 [gr-qc]).
[25] Hajime Sotani, Hector O. Silva, George Pappas, 2019 Phys. Rev. D 100, 043006, "Finite size effects of slowly-rotating neutron stars light curves", (arXiv:1905.07668 [astro-ph]).
[26] Andrea Maselli, George Pappas, Paolo Pani, Leonardo Gualtieri, Sara Motta, Valeria Ferrari, Luigi Stella, 2020 ApJ, 899, 139, "Can we constrain the neutron-star equation of state from QPO observations?", (arXiv:1905.05616 [astro-ph]).
[27] Hector O. Silva, George Pappas, Nicolás Yunes and Kent Yagi, 2021 Phys. Rev. D 103, 063038, "The surface of rapidly-rotating neutron stars: implications to neutron star parameter estimation", (arXiv:2008.05565 [astro-ph]).
[28] Kostas Glampedakis, and George Pappas, 2021 Phys.Rev.D 104, L081503, "Can supermassive black hole shadows test the Kerr metric?", (arXiv:2102.13573 [gr-qc]).
[29] Paraskevi Nousi, Styliani-Christina Fragkouli, Nikolaos Passalis, Panagiotis Iosif, Theocharis Apostolatos, George Pappas, Nikolaos Stergioulas, Anastasios Tefas, 2022 Neurocomputing 491, 67–77, "Autoencoder-driven Spiral Representation Learning for Gravitational Wave Surrogate Modelling", (arXiv:2107.04312 [cs.LG]).
[30] Konstantinos Kostaros, and George Pappas, 2022 Class. Quantum Grav. 39 134001, Focus Issue on the Impact of EHT Observations for General Relativity, "Chaotic photon orbits and shadows of a non-Kerr object described by the Hartle-Thorne spacetime", (arXiv:2111.09367 [gr-qc]).
[31] Motta, S.E., Belloni, T., Stella, L., Pappas, G., Casares, J., A., Muñoz-Darias, T., Torres, M.A.P., Yanes-Rizo, I.V., 2022 MNRAS, 517, 1469-1475, "Black hole mass and spin measurements through the Relativistic Precession Model: XTE J1859+226", (arXiv:2209.10376 [astro-ph.HE]).
[32] Kostas Glampedakis, and George Pappas, 2023 Phys.Rev.D 107, 064001, "Is a black hole shadow a reliable test of the no-hair theorem?", (2302.06140 [gr-qc]).
[33] Grigorios Papigkiotis, and George Pappas, 2023 Phys.Rev.D 107, 103050, "Universal Relations for rapidly rotating neutron stars using supervised machine-learning techniques", (2303.04273 [gr-qc]).
[34] Konstantinos Kostaros, Padelis Papadopoulos, George Pappas, 2024 Phys.Rev.D 110, 024001, "Fractal signatures of non-Kerr spacetimes in the shadow of light-ring bifurcations", (2405.09653 [gr-qc]).
[35] George Pappas, Ippocratis D Saltas, Laurent Eyer, 2025 Phys.Rev.D 112, 063011, "Modelling Gaia photometry signals of dark halos" ( 2503.23868 [astro-ph.CO]).
[36] Konstantinos Kostaros, George Pappas, Padelis Papadopoulos, Wing-Fai Thi, "An Einstein ring fingerprint around SMBHs illuminated by BLR spectral lines", arXiv: 2509.08690 [gr-qc].
[37] Konstantinos Kostaros, Padelis Papadopoulos, Wing-Fai Thi, George Pappas, "SMBH shadows: gravity fingerprints revealed by spectral line background radiation", arXiv: 2509.08728 [gr-qc].
The undergrad, masters, and PhD theses presented here are all in Greek. The talks presented are in English and are related to my research work. The work presented in this section that is published in conference proceedings is not refereed.
Προπτυχιακή Διπλωματική εργασία (Bachelor thesis):
Σχετικιστική βαρυτική κατάρρευση σφαιρικά συμμετρικών αστέρων,
Pothitakis, G.; Preka-Papadema, P.; Petropoulos, B.; Pappas, G.; Polygiannakis, J., "Study on the occurrence rate of Ha solar flares in order to detect the possible existence of North-South and East-West asymmetries during the time interval 1994-2000", 5th Hellenic Astronomical Conference, held 20-22 September, 2001 in Crete, Greece. Online at http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/helasmtg/2001/proceedings.htm, p.38.1 (.ps),
Polygiannakis, J., Preka-Papadema, P., Petropoulos, B., Pothitakis, G., Moussas, X., Pappas, G., Hillaris, A., "Ephemeral periodicities in the solar activity", In: SOLMAG 2002. Proceedings of the Magnetic Coupling of the Solar Atmosphere Euroconference and IAU Colloquium 188, 11 - 15 June 2002, Santorini, Greece. Ed. H. Sawaya-Lacoste. ESA SP-505. Noordwijk, Netherlands: ESA Publications Division, ISBN 92-9092-815-8, 2002, p. 537 - 540,
Μεταπτυχιακή Διπλωματική εργασία (Master thesis):
Μέθοδοι παραγωγής λύσεων των εξισώσεων πεδίου του Einstein (Methods for generating solutions of the Einstein field equations),
Talk given at the Theoretical Astrophysics Section in Tuebingen during a visit in November 2010. The topic of the talk was:
Talk given at the conference, NEB 15 - Recent Developments in Gravity, titled: "Revising the Multipole Moments of numerical spacetimes".
Παρουσίαση στα πλαίσια της ολοκλήρωσης της διδακτορικής διατριβής με τίτλο, "Εφαρμογές στη γενική θεωρία της σχετικότητας: ο χώρος γύρω από συμπαγή αντικείμενα".
(Τυπογραφικά: σελ. 4/47 $$M_4=\left( a^4 - (3a^2 -2ab + b^2)k + k^2 -\frac{1}{7}kM^2\right) M $$,
σελ. 8/47 $$ \rho^2 \equiv (g_{t\phi})^2-g_{tt}g_{\phi\phi} $$.)
Διδακτορική Διατριβή (PhD thesis):
Σύνδεσμος προς την Ψηφιακή βιβλιοθήκη "Γκρίζας Βιβλιογραφίας" για την εργασία (και σύνδεσμος προς το Εθνικό Αρχείο Διδακτορικών Διατριβών),
Τίτλος: Εφαρμογές στη γενική θεωρία της Σχετικότητας: ο χώρος γύρω από συμπαγή αστροφυσικά αντικείμενα.
Title: Applications of the theory of General Relativity: the space-time around compact objects. (in Greek)
Περίληψη:
Η μελέτη αστροφυσικών φαινομένων από τη γειτονιά συμπαγών αντικειμένων προσφέρει την ευκαιρία να διερευνήσουμε τα σύνορα τη γνωστής φυσικής, δηλαδή να ελέγξουμε την θεωρία της γενικής σχετικότητας και να χαρτογραφήσουμε τη δομή των συμπαγών αντικειμένων.
Για τα παραπάνω χρειάζεται μια ακριβής περιγραφή του χωροχρόνου. Αυτή η ανάγκη ήταν το κίνητρο αυτής της εργασίας, όπου διερευνούμε τη δυνατότητα να έχουμε μια αναλυτική μετρική που να μπορεί να περιγράφει με ακρίβεια το χωροχρόνο γύρω από τους αστέρες νετρονίων. Αρχικά αναπτύξαμε τα απαραίτητα εργαλεία για τη σύγκριση αριθμητικών χωροχρόνων, που αναπαριστούν την γεωμετρία γύρω από ρεαλιστικά άστρα νετρονίων, με αναλυτικούς χωροχρόνους, δηλαδή διορθώσαμε τον τρόπο υπολογισμού των πολυπολικών ροπών για τους αριθμητικούς χωροχρόνους και κατασκευάσαμε έναν αλγόριθμο για τον μετασχηματισμό συντεταγμένων ανάμεσα στις αναλυτικές και τις αριθμητικές μετρικές.
Στη συνέχεια συγκρίναμε τέτοιους αριθμητικούς χωροχρόνους με αναλυτικούς που κατασκευάστηκαν έτσι ώστε να έχουν τα ίδια πρώτα πολύπολα με τους αντίστοιχους αριθμητικούς. Η σύγκριση ανάμεσα στις μετρικές βασίστηκε σε γεωμετρικές και φυσικές ποσότητες που σχετίζονται με παρατηρήσιμα αστροφυσικά φαινόμενα και έδειξε ότι η αναλυτική μετρική Two-Soliton είναι μια πολύ καλή επιλογή για να περιγράψει το εξωτερικό των αστέρων νετρονίων.
Τέλος χρησιμοποιήσαμε την Two-Soliton για να διερευνήσουμε τις ιδιότητες των συμπαγών αντικειμένων με την βοήθεια των παρατηρούμενων ημιπεριοδικών ταλαντώσεων γνωστών και ως QPOs. Η ανάλυσή μας έδειξε ότι οι ταλαντώσεις αυτές παρουσιάζουν ιδιότητες που μπορούν από την μία να διακρίνουν αν τα QPOs είναι τροχιακής φύσεως και από την άλλη να ξεχωρίσουν αστέρες νετρονίων με διαφορετικές καταστατικές εξισώσεις.
Abstract:
The study of the astrophysical phenomena that take place in the environment of compact objects offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore the boundaries of known physics. On the one hand the properties of the spacetime itself will provide us with insight to the properties of gravity and may serve as a test of Einstein's theory of relativity in strong gravity regions where it has been poorly tested and on the other hand the same properties will allow the mapping of the internal structure of these compact objects, which in the case of neutron stars would provide information on the properties of matter at densities higher than nuclear.
To perform these tasks one needs the best possible description for the geometry of the spacetime around these compact objects. This requirement motivated the current work on the possibility of describing accurately the exterior of neutron stars by using analytic solutions of Eisntein's field equations. In what follows we first took all the necessary steps towards developing the tools needed to reliably compare realistic spacetimes of the exterior of neutron stars, constructed through numerical codes, to appropriate analytic spacetimes. In order to do this we corrected the method used up to now to identify the relativistic multipole moments of numerical spacetimes and developed an appropriate algorithm to transform the coordinates from the coordinate system in which the numerical spacetimes are constructed to the coordinate system that the analytic spacetimes are usually given.
Having developed these basic tools we proceeded to compare the spacetime for realistic neutron star models to an analytic one which was constructed to have the same multipole moments as the numerical one. This matching condition was demonstrated to be a very good choice. For comparison between the two metrics we have proposed several criteria which are geometrical and physical in nature and include potentially measurable properties of the spacetime, that are associated to astrophysical phenomena. Using such criteria for comparison, we have shown that a four parameter analytic metric, the so called Two-Soliton metric, is a very good approximation for describing the spacetime exterior to neutron stars of arbitrary rotation.
By using the Two-Soliton analytic metric, as a metric capable of accurately describing the spacetimes exterior to neutron stars, we have attempted an exploration of the properties of compact objects through the behavior and the properties of the quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) of the X-ray flux that is usually observed from the vicinity of such objects. From this investigation, we have identified some interesting properties that the frequencies of these oscillations might display, that could be used, (i) to demonstrate that the nature of these QPOs is related to the orbital motion of accreting material and, (ii) to distinguish compact objects with different equations of state.
Εξίσωση (1.2.46) σελ. 28, η έκφραση πρέπει να είναι
Παράρτημα Έ: Σελ. 138 η έκφραση για το $$g_{rr}$$ πρέπει να είναι
$$g_{rr}=\left(1-\frac{2M}{r}\right)^{-1}\left(1+j^2G_1+qF_2\right)$$.
Παράρτημα Ζ: Σελ. 146 η εξίσωση (Ζ'.0.9) θα έπρεπε να είναι: $$ -g_{\rho\rho}\left(\frac{d\rho}{d\tau}\right)^2 -g_{zz}\left(\frac{dz}{d\tau}\right)^2=1-\frac{\tilde{E}^2g_{\phi\phi}+2\tilde{E}\tilde{L} g_{t\phi}+\tilde{L}^2 g_{tt}}{(g_{t\phi})^2-g_{tt}g_{\phi\phi}}=V_{eff}.$$
Talk given at the SFB/TR7 meeting with title: "Revising the Multipole Moments of numerical spacetimes".
A general talk given for the Theoretical Astrophysics and Computational Physics Seminar with title: "Some topics on compact objects and the spacetime around them".
Equation (15) should read: $$ -g_{\rho\rho}\left(\frac{d\rho}{d\tau}\right)^2 -g_{zz}\left(\frac{dz}{d\tau}\right)^2= 1-\frac{\tilde{E}^2g_{\phi\phi}+2\tilde{E}\tilde{L} g_{t\phi}+\tilde{L}^2 g_{tt}}{(g_{t\phi})^2-g_{tt}g_{\phi\phi}}=V_{eff}.$$
A talk given for the SFB/TR7 Video Seminar with title: "Relativistic precession of orbits around neutron stars". A similar talk was also given at the API Amsterdam, on the December 8th 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands. The talk title was, “Relativistic precession around neutron stars”.
Media attention for our 2014 Phys. Rev. Lett. (which was Editors' Suggestion) on the properties of Neutron Star multipole moments (SISSA links)
Simple, like a neutron star: How neutron stars are like (and unlike) black holes (ScienceDaily)
Simple, like a neutron star (Phys.org)
Simple, like a neutron star (Daily News)
A talk given at the 558th WE-Heraeus-Seminar on The Strong Gravity Regime of Black holes and Neutron stars, with title: "Universal behavior of neutron star multipole moments".
Talk given at the Theoretical Astrophysics Section in Tuebingen, in July 2014. The same talk was also given in August for the NESTAR video seminar titled: "Universal behaviour of neutron star multipole moments (I-Love-Q relations)".
Talk given at the conference, NEB 16 - Recent Developments in Gravity (Mykonos 2014), titled: "Why I-Love-Q?".
Invited colloquium talk at the Physics and Astronomy department at the University of Mississippi (November 2014), titled: "Neutron Stars: Global Properties and Properties of Orbits Around Them".
Invited talk for the Gravity seminar at STAG Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK, December 11th 2014. Talk title: "Doing astrophysics around neutron stars: Their global properties and the properties of orbits around them".
Poster presented by Hector Okada da Silva at the workshop "Compact Objects as Astrophysical and Gravitational Probes", that took place at the Lorentz Center at Leiden University, Netherlands, from 2 Feb 2015 through 6 Feb 2015. The poster was on "A post-TOV formalism for relativistic stars" and is based on work in preparation with E. Berti and K. Glampedakis.
My contribution to the project The Birth of an Idea: Never mind the EoS
Talk on the topic of: "Multipole moments: from GR to scalar-tensor theory. Connection to astrophysical observables", given at the workshop on (Non-)Universal Properties of Neutron Stars at the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) in Bremen, Germany, held from the 18th to 20th of May 2015.
Talk given as an invited speaker at the COMPACT STARS AND BLACK HOLES conference that took place from the 7th until the 9th of July in Tuebingen, Germany. The topic of the talk was, “An EOS independent description of the astrophysical properties of neutron stars“.
Inaugural eXtreme Gravity Workshop at the Montana State University, held in August 20-22, 2015 in Bozeman, Montana.
Media attention (August 2015 Issue of PhysicsWorld) regarding our work on "I-Love-Q" and the three-hair relations for neutron stars.
Brief presentation of some of my work at the relativity group meeting at TAPIR in Caltech, during my visit (November 2015).
Our recent paper on "Astrophysical applications of the post-Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff formalism" has been highlighted as a Physical Review D Editor's Suggestion
Talk given at the conference NEB-17 - Recent Developments in Gravity (Mykonos 2016, September 19-22), titled: "The spacetime around compact objects and astrophysical observables"
A talk, where I presented my work on the properties of neutron star spacetimes, in the context of the CENTRA weekly seminar (27/10/2016). The talk title was: "The spacetime around neutron stars and astrophysical observables".
I was also invited to give a talk, similar to the previous talk at CENTRA, at the Gr@v group seminar at the University of Aveiro (30/11/2016).
At the end of February 2017 (2/27/17-3/2/17), E. Berti organised a workshop at OleMiss on Strong Gravity and Binary Dynamics with Gravitational Wave Observations, where I was invited to participate in the "Tests of the Kerr nature of black holes and new physics" discussion panel with colleagues L. Stein, R. Brito, C. Herdeiro, and K. Yagi.
On the 25th of March 2017 CENTRA had it's second meeting at Reitoria da Universidade de Lisboa, where all CENTRA members briefly presented their work.
On May 29 2017, I gave a seminar at the University of Lisboa, Campo Grande, at Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), on the topic of the spacetime around neutron stars. This talk was a small variation on the theme of neutron star spacetimes and properties.
eXtreme Matter meets eXtreme Gravity workshop at the Montana State University, held from the 17th to the 19th of August, 2017 in Bozeman, Montana.
On October 23 2017, I gave a seminar at CEICO, in Prague, Czech Republic, with the title, "Neutron stars as matter and gravity laboratories".
I was invited to give a talk at the workshop, Modern Aspects of Gravity and Cosmology, that took place between 8-9 November 2017 at LPT, Orsay, France. The title of the talk was, "Neutron stars as gravity laboratories".
COST GWverse Conference, Malta 22-25 January 2018, University of Malta, Valletta Campus.
On the 2nd of February 2018, I was invited to give a talk at DAMTP in Cambridge on, "Neutron Stars as gravity laboratories", in the context of DAMTP Friday GR Seminar.
Neutron stars in Lisbon workshop, 12-13 April 2018, Lisbon, Portugal. I was invited to lead the first day round table discussion on multimessenger astrophysics from BNS mergers (and GW170817 specifically).
Numerical Relativity beyond General Relativity workshop, 03-09 June 2018, Benasque, Spain. Talk title: "Stationary solutions in theories beyond GR".
First Congress of Greek Mathematicians, (FCGM-2018), June 25 - 30, 2018, Athens, Greece.
NEB 18 - RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GRAVITY AND RELATIVITY, 20-23 September 2018, Rhodes. Talk title: "Testing the Kerr hypothesis with QNMs and ringdowns".
On October 11th, 2018, during my visit to NAOJ (NAOJ Visiting Fellow), I gave a talk on "Testing the Kerr hypothesis with QNMs and ringdowns", for the Division of Theoretical Astronomy.
November 12-14, 2018, Fundamental Physics with LISA workshop at the GGI in Florence, Italy.
16-18 January, 2019, Tests of Gravity workshop of the gwverse COST action, in Athens, Greece. Co-organised with Thomas Sotiriou, Harris Apostolatos, and Leo Stein. This workshop is part of the Gravity Data Group initiation of the EU COST action "Gravitational Waves, black holes, and fundamental physics". The overarching goal of the initiative is to collect and comprehensively present all constraints on gravitation.
21-24 January, 2019, annual gwverse COST action meeting, in Athens, Greece. Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and Fundamental Physics.
22-26 April, 2019, annual PHAROS meeting, in Barcelona, Spain.
May 29 2019, Public talk at the Observatory at AUTh on the 100-year anniversary of the 1919 solar eclipse and the measurement of the relativistic deflection of light by the Sun. Talk title: “Tests of General Relativity and the 1919 eclipse expedition."
June 26 to July 7, 2019, STSM mission for the GWVerse COST action to the University of Mississippi in Oxford MS, USA, to work with prof. Leo Stein on the GDG project. During my visit I gave a talk on, "Testing the Kerr hypothesis" (01/07/2019).
16-27 September 2019, 10th Aegean Summer School in Syros Island, Greece. Talk title: Testing the Kerr hypothesis.
13-15 November 2019, Neutron Stars in the GW era in Tuebingen, Germany. Talk title: Testing GR with neutron stars.
4-7 December 2019, Multimessengers, compact objects, and fundamental physics in Prague, Czech Republic. Talk title: Neutron stars as gravity laboratories
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June 4, 2021, Cosmoseminar, LPT Orsay, France. Talk Title: "Using photon rings and spheres to distinguish between KErr and non-Kerr spacetimes".
November 10, 2021, FORTH Institute of Astrophysics Colloquium. Talk title: "Using light-rings and photon-spheres to tell apart Kerr from non-Kerr spacetimes".
Physics Department at AUTh, March 26th 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece. Invited talk at the workshop organised by the PATH student initiative. Talk Title: “The shadow of a Black Hole“
July 27 2022, 4th Summer School of Hel.A.S., July 25-27 2022 , Athens, Greece. Invited speaker. Lecture Title: “The central supermassive Black Hole of the Milky Way“
April 29 2023, Student organised workshop on physics. Lecture Title: "About Relativity".
May 7, 2024, Cosmology and Astrophysics in the Gravitational Wave Astronomy Era Conference, 6-10 May 2024. Central Library of Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. Invited speaker. Talk title: “Fractal shadows from non-Kerr compact objects”.
June 17, 2025, Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and Gravitational Waves @ Black Sea Conference, 16-20 June 2025, Varna, Bulgaria. Invited speaker. Talk title: "Measuring the shadows of Kerr and non-Kerr compact objects".
The talks presented here are in Greek and were mostly given at the University of Athens, Greece, in the context of the Astro Fridays Meetings. Therefore these talks are more general in nature and not necessarily related to my research.
Εργασία στα πλαίσια του μεταπτυχιακού μαθήματος "Δομή και εξέλιξη των Αστέρων": Παλλόμενοι μεταβλητοί αστέρες και ακτινικές ταλαντώσεις,
Παρουσίαση στα πλαίσια των συναντήσεων της Ομάδας Θεωρητικής Αστροφυσικής: Ακουστικό ανάλογο Μελανών Οπών,
Βιβλιογραφία:
Experimental Black-Hole Evaporation? (PRL, 46, 1351)
Sonic analogue of black holes and the effects of high frequencies on black hole evaporation (Phys. Rev. D, 51, 2827)
Acoustic black holes: horizons, ergospheres and Hawking radiation (gr-qc/9712010)
Trans-Planckian redshifts and the substance of the space-time river (hep-th/0001085)
Causal structure of acoustic spacetimes (gr-qc/0408022)
Vortex analogue for the equatorial geometry of the Kerr black hole (gr-qc/0409014)
The river model of black holes (gr-qc/0411060)
The disinformation problem of black holes (gr-qc/0504037, gr-qc/0504038)
Παρουσίαση στα πλαίσια των συναντήσεων της Ομάδας Θεωρητικής Αστροφυσικής: "Κύκνος Χ-1: Η πρώτη Μαύρη Τρύπα, μέτρηση της μάζας και της παραμέτρου περιστροφής του".
arXiv:1106.3688v2 [astro-ph.HE], arXiv:1106.3689v2 [astro-ph.HE], arXiv:1106.3690v2 [astro-ph.HE]
(αρχείο pdf)(αρχείο .pps)(σελίδα της παρουσίασης (internet explorer))
**Διόρθωση στις διαφάνειες στη σελ. 15 στη σχέση για το φάσμα του δίσκου:
$$F_{\nu}=\frac{4\pi h \nu^3}{c^2}\int_{\rho_{in}}^{\infty}\frac{\rho d\rho}{e^{h\nu/kT(\rho)}-1}\left(\frac{1}{D}\right)^2\cos i$$
Πρόσθετη Βιβλιογραφία:
Υπολογισμός παραμέτρων διπλού συστήματος από φωτομετρία:
arXiv:astro-ph/0010114v1, "The use of the NEXTGEN model atmospheres for cool giants in a light curve synthesis code",
Astrophys.J. 477 (1997) 876, "Optical Observations of GRO J1655-40 in Quiescence I: A Precise Mass for the Black Hole Primary",
1984ApJS...54...17L, "A light synthesis program for binary stars. I",
1975ApJ...197..675A, "Ellipsoidal light variations and masses of X-ray binaries",
Υπολογισμός παραμέτρων διπλού συστήματος από φασματοσκοπία:
1979ApJ...234..275M, "A method for solving binary star orbits using the Fourier transform",
1986AJ.....91..125K, "Spectroscopic orbits for symbiotic stars. I - The recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis",
Υπολογισμός της παραμέτρου περιστροφή από το φάσμα του δίσκου:
arXiv:1102.0010v2 [astro-ph.HE], "Measuring Black Hole Spin by the Continuum-Fitting Method: Effect of Deviations from the Novikov-Thorne Disc Model",
arXiv:1101.0811v2 [astro-ph.HE], "Measuring the Spins of Accreting Black Holes",
arXiv:0710.4073v1 [astro-ph], "Estimating the Spins of Stellar-Mass Black Holes by Fitting Their Continuum Spectra",
arXiv:astro-ph/0408209v1, "Multi-Temperature Blackbody Spectra of Thin Accretion Disks With and Without a Zero-Torque Inner Boundary Condition",
Διάφορα:
arXiv:gr-qc/0506078v1, "Black Holes in Astrophysics",
Astron. Astrophys. 347, 185193 (1999), "Stellar evolution with rotation IV: von Zeipel's theorem and anisotropic losses of mass and angular momentum",
Σχήματα:
Παρουσίαση στα πλαίσια των συναντήσεων της Ομάδας Θεωρητικής αστροφυσικής:
"Νετρίνα", (Γιώργος Παύλου, .pdf)
"Τρέχουν τα νετρίνα πιο γρίγορα από το φως;;;, (Γιώργος Παππάς, .pps)
arXiv:1109.4897v2, v1 [hep-ex], "Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam",
---Update (23/02/2012): CERN issues statement about OPERA neutrino result - Physics Today News Picks
---Update (16/3/2012): ICARUS experiment at Gran Sasso laboratory reports measurement of neutrino time of flight consistent with the speed of light
UPDATE 8 June 2012
Neutrinos sent from CERN to Gran Sasso respect the cosmic speed limit
At the 25th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics in Kyoto today, CERN Research Director Sergio Bertolucci presented results on the time of flight of neutrinos from CERN to the INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory on behalf of four experiments situated at Gran Sasso. The four, Borexino, ICARUS, LVD and OPERA all measure a neutrino time of flight consistent with the speed of light. This is at odds with a measurement that the OPERA collaboration put up for scrutiny last September, indicating that the original OPERA measurement can be attributed to a faulty element of the experiments fibre optic timing system.
Although this result isnt as exciting as some would have liked, said Bertolucci, it is what we all expected deep down. The story captured the public imagination, and has given people the opportunity to see the scientific method in action an unexpected result was put up for scrutiny, thoroughly investigated and resolved in part thanks to collaboration between normally competing experiments. Thats how science moves forward.
Διάλεξη με θέμα την εξέλιξη των αστέρων μεγάλης μάζας. Η διάλεξη πραγματοποιήθηκε στο τμήμα Φυσικής του πανεπιστημίου Πατρών στις 2 Μάη 2017 και απευθυνόταν σε προπτυχιακούς φοιτητές.
Ταξίδια στον Χωροχρόνο (ft. Δρ Γιώργος Παππάς, Δρ Κοσμάς Γαζέας) | Astronio Live
Κοιτάζοντας πάλι το βίντεο, εντόπισα ένα λάθος εκ παραδρομής σε κάτι που είπα. Στο παράδειγμα με το τρένο ήθελα να αναφέρω ένα φαινόμενο όπου η ταχύτητα του τρένου προστίθεται στην ταχύτητα κάποιου άλλου σήματος σε αντιδιαστολή με την ταχύτητα του φωτός που είναι πάντα σταθερή και η πρόσθεση δεν δουλεύει. Δυστυχώς το παράδειγμα με τον ήχο ήταν ατυχές, αφού η ταχύτητα του ήχου εξαρτάται από την ταχύτητα του μέσου στο οποίο διαδίδεται. Για να μην μπλέξουμε με άλλα φαινόμενα θα ήταν καλύτερα να είχα αναφέρει κάποιον επιβάτη του τρένου που πετάει μια μπάλα για παράδειγμα σε έναν άλλον επιβάτη. Τότε από έξω από το τρένο κάποιος βλέπει την μπάλα να έχει την ταχύτητα του τρένου συν την ταχύτητα με την οποία την πετά ο επιβάτης (εφόσον η ταχύτητα του τρένου είναι μικρή, γιατί αν είναι κοντά στην ταχύτητα του φωτός ο τρόπος που προσθέτουμε ταχύτητες είναι διαφορετικός και πρέπει να γίνει σχετικιστικά). Σε αντιδιαστολή, αν το τρένο ανάψει τα φώτα του όπως είπα, οι πάντες θα μετρήσουν την ταχύτητα του φωτός να είναι η ίδια είτε είναι πάνω στο τρένο ή κάπου σε κάποια ακίνητη πλατφόρμα κοντά στο τρένο.Περισσότερα εδώ.
Διάλεξη στους φοιτητές του Φυσικού του ΑΠΘ με θέμα "Μια ματιά στη θεωρία της Γενικής Σχετικότητας", με στόχο την εισαγωγή στις βασικές ιδέες της θεωρίας (8/4/2019).
Ομιλία του Αστεροσκοπείου ΑΠΘ στα πλαίσια του IAU100 για τα 100 χρόνια από την έκλειψη του 1919 και τη μέτρηση της εκτροπής του φωτός από τον Ήλιο (29/5/2019).
Τίτλος: "Ο πειραματικός έλεγχος της Γενικής Σχετικότητας και η έκλειψη του 1919".
Ομιλία για το workshop που οργάνωσε ο σύλογος PATh με αφορμή τα προκριματικά για την Ελληνική συμμετοχή στον PLANCS2022 (26/03/2022).
Το βίντεο έχει μόνο την παρουσίαση των διαφανειών, γιατί η ομιλία δεν καταγράφηκε.
Διάλεξη σε ημερίδα που οργάνωσαν οι φοιτητές του Φυσικού του ΑΠΘ με θέμα "Περί Σχετικότητας", με στόχο την εισαγωγή στις βασικές ιδέες της θεωρίας (29/4/2023).
These are the courses I am currently teaching or have taught in the past.
(ΜΥΠ736) Αστροφυσική για το Μεταπτυχιακό Υπολογιστικής Φυσικής του Τμήματος Φυσικής του ΑΠΘ (Astrophysics).
(ΓΘΕ203) Μηχανική των Ρευστών για το προπτυχιακό του Τμήματος Φυσικής του ΑΠΘ (Fluid Mechanics).
(ΑΑΕ201) Αστροφυσική για το προπτυχιακό του Τμήματος Φυσικής του ΑΠΘ (Astrophysics)
(SPE-C5) Σπουδές στη Γενική Σχετικότητα για το Μεταπτυχιακό Υποατομικής Φυσικής του τμήματος Φυσικής του ΑΠΘ (General Relativity).
(ΓΘΕ211) Εισαγωγή στη Φυσική των Ιονισμένων Αερίων για το προπτυχιακό του Τμήματος Φυσικής του ΑΠΘ (Plasma Physics).
(ΑΑΥ201) Αστρονομία και Αστροφυσική, για το προπτυχιακό του τμήματος Φυσικής του ΑΠΘ (Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics)
Undergrad:
1. Chaotic photon orbits and fractal Shadows in the Hartle-Thorne spacetime, Κώσταρος Κωνσταντίνος (2021)
2. Hydrodynamic analogues of black holes, Μαγγαλούδη Γλυκερία (2021)
Postgrad:
1. Generic Orbits around rotating Black Holes and non-Kerr compact objects with Gravitational Wave applications for LISA, Σουβαϊτζής Λάζαρος (2021)
2. Exploring universal relations for rapidly rotating neutron stars using machine learning techniques, Παπιγκιώτης Γρηγόριος (2022)
My record on the Mathematics Genealogy Project and the record of my supervisor, Theocharis A. Apostolatos