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Gradus: Extensible spacetime agnostic general relativistic ray-tracing
Gradus.jl traces geodesics and calculates observational signatures of accreting compact objects. The code requires only a specification of the non-zero metric components of a chosen spacetime in order to solve the geodesic equation and compute a wide variety of trajectories and orbits. Gradus includes algorithms for calculating physical quantities are implemented generically, so they may be used with different classes of spacetime with minimal effort.
- Code site:
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https://github.com/astro-group-bristol/Gradus.jl
- Used in:
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJS..275...45P
- Bibcode:
- 2025ascl.soft03035B