Radiation Transfer of Emission Lines in Curved Space-Time
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We present a general formulation for ray-tracing calculations in curved space-time. The formulation takes full account of relativistic effects in the photon transport and the relative motions of the emitters and the light-of-sight absorbing material. We apply the formulation to calculate the emission from accretion disks and tori around rotating black holes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0406401,
title = {Radiation Transfer of Emission Lines in Curved Space-Time},
author = {Steven V. Fuerst and Kinwah Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0406401},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16 pages, 9 figures, to appear in A&A. Email S. Fuerst for a high resolution version of figure 5