English

A new approach and code for spinning black holes in modified gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-07-12 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We discuss and implement a spectral method approach to computing stationary and axisymmetric black hole solutions and their properties in modified theories of gravity. The resulting code is written in the Julia language and is transparent and easily adapted to new settings. We test the code on both general relativity and on Einstein-Scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. It is accurate and fast, converging on a spinning solution in these theories with tiny errors (O(1013)\sim \mathcal{O}\left(10^{-13}\right) in most cases) in a matter of seconds.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2212.07293,
  title  = {A new approach and code for spinning black holes in modified gravity},
  author = {Pedro G. S. Fernandes and David J. Mulryne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.07293},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

40 pages, 14 figures. GitHub repository: https://github.com/pgsfernandes/SpinningBlackHoles.jl ; v2: added references, accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity

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