Lior Burko's Research Interests

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Before I came to UAH I had been at Bates College, the University of Utah. and at the TAPIR group of the California Institute of Technology.

I am working on various topics related to strong gravitational fields in and around black holes. Specifically, I have published on:

• Radiation reaction in general relativity which is likely to be of importance for the NASA mission LISA
  • Time-domain waveforms
    • Computational efficiency of frequency- and time-domain calculations of extreme mass-ratio binaries: Equatorial orbits
    • Accurate time-domain gravitational waveforms for extreme-mass-ratio binaries
  • Orbital evolution of a particle around a black hole
    • Orbital evolution for extreme mass-ratio binaries: conservative self forces
    • Orbital evolution of a test particle around a black hole: Indirect determination of the self force in the post Newtonian approximation
    • Comparison of contributions of spin-orbit coupling and the self force
    • higher-order corrections
    • The importance of conservative self forces for binaries undergoing radiation damping
  • Self force
    • on a scalar charge in the spacetime of a stationary, axisymmetric black hole
    • on a particle plunging into a black hole
    • on particle in orbit around a black hole
    • on charges in the spacetime of spherical shells
    • on static charges in Schwarzschild spacetime
• Numerical relativity
  • The Periodic Standing-Wave Approximation:
    • Overview and 3D scalar models
  • Towards a wave extraction method for numerical relativity:
    • estimating the gravitational-wave content of spatial hypersurfaces
    • testing the quasi-Kinnersley method in the Bondi-Sachs framework
    • analytical examples for the Beetle-Burko radiation scalar
    • the quasi-Kinnersley frame
    • foundations and initial value formulation
  • The Radiation Scalar
  • Radiation tails and boundary conditions for black hole evolutions
  • 3D simulations of linearized scalar fields in Kerr spacetime
• Black hole singularities
  • Black-Hole Singularities: A New Critical Phenomenon
  • Can a black hole be used as a portal to other universes?
  • Survival of the black hole's Cauchy horizon under non-compact perturbations
  • Singularity in a (2+1)-dimensional AdS scalar black hole
  • Strength of the null singularity inside black holes
  • Singularity deep inside the spherical charged black hole core
  • Singularity in supercritical collapse of a spherical scalar field
  • Analytic study of the Cauchy horizon singularity inside spherical charged black holes
  • Structure of the Black Hole's Cauchy Horizon Singularity
  • QED blue-sheet effects inside black holes
  • Are physical objects necessarily burnt up by the blue sheet inside a black hole?
• Black hole perturbations
  • Late-time Kerr tails revisited
  • The late-time tails in the Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime revisited
  • Comment on "High-order contamination in the tail of gravitational collapse"
  • Late time tails from momentarily stationary, compact initial data in Schwarzschild spacetimes
  • Universality of massive scalar field late-time tails in black-hole spacetimes
  • Radiation tails and boundary conditions for black hole evolutions
  • 3D simulations of linearized scalar fields in Kerr spacetime
  • Radiative falloff in the background of spinning black holes
  • Late-time evolution of nonlinear gravitational collapse
  • Dipole Perturbations of the Reissner-Nordstrom Solution
    • The Axial Case
    • The Polar Case
  • On the formation of black holes in non-symmetric gravity
• Physics education and elementary physics
  • Transversality of Electromagnetic Waves in the Calculus-Based Introductory Physics Course
  • Multipole structure and coordinate systems
  • Ballistic trajectory: parabola, ellipse, or what?
  • Effect of the spherical Earth on a simple pendulum
  • On the limitations of thought experiments in physics and the consequences for physics education
  • Self-force approach to synchrotron radiation
  • A piecewise-conserved constant of motion for a dissipative system
• Miscellaneous
  • Self interaction near dielectrics
  • Mass loss by a scalar charge in an expanding universe
  • Instability of scalar charges in (1+1) and (2+1) dimensions