Wavefronts and Light Cones for Kerr Spacetimes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2014-12-30 v1
Abstract
We investigate the light propagation by means of simulations of wavefronts and light cones for Kerr spacetimes. Simulations of this kind give us a new insight to better understand the light propagation in presence of massive rotating black holes. A relevant result is that wavefronts are back scattered with winding around the black hole. To generate these visualizations, an interactive computer program with a graphical user interface, called JWFront, was written in Java.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1412.8068,
title = {Wavefronts and Light Cones for Kerr Spacetimes},
author = {Francisco Frutos-Alfaro and Frank Grave and Thomas Mueller and Daria Adis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.8068},
year = {2014}
}