[ascl:1011.015]
Geokerr: Computing Photon Orbits in a Kerr Spacetime
Relativistic radiative transfer problems require the calculation of photon trajectories in curved spacetime. Programmed in Fortran, Geokerr uses a novel technique for rapid and accurate calculation of null geodesics in the Kerr metric. The equations of motion from the Hamilton-Jacobi equation are reduced directly to Carlson's elliptic integrals, simplifying algebraic manipulations and allowing all coordinates to be computed semi-analytically for the first time.
- Code site:
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https://faculty.washington.edu/agol/geokerr/index.html
- Described in:
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ...696.1616D
- Bibcode:
- 2010ascl.soft11015D