English

Optics in the Schwarzschild space-time

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-03-01 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

Realistic modelling of radiation transfer in and from variable accretion disks around black holes requires the solution of the problem: find the constants of motion and equation of motion of a light-like geodesic connecting two arbitrary points in space. Here we give the complete solution of this problem in the Schwarzschild space-time.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0405037,
  title  = {Optics in the Schwarzschild space-time},
  author = {Andrej Cadez and Uros Kostic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0405037},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, 10 figures, type C orbits added, analytic solutions for time of flight of photons for all 3 types of orbits added

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