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We derive the analytical solutions of the bound timelike geodesic orbits in Kerr spacetime. The analytical solutions are expressed in terms of the elliptic integrals using Mino time $\lambda$ as the independent variable. Mino time decouples…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-28 Ryuichi Fujita , Wataru Hikida

In this paper we have applied the generalized Kerr-Schild transformation finding a new family of stationary perfect-fluid solutions of the Einstein field equations. The procedure used combines some well-known techniques of null and timelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Carlos F. Sopuerta

In this paper, we propose a sparse spectral-Galerkin approximation scheme for solving the second-order partial differential equations on an arbitrary tetrahedron. Generalized Koornwinder polynomials are introduced on the reference…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Lueling Jia , Huiyuan Li , Zhimin Zhang

The Wigner rotations arising from the combination of boosts along two different directions are rederived from a relative boost point of view and applied to gyroscope spin precession along timelike geodesics in a Kerr spacetime, clarifying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Robert T. Jantzen

We follow the strategy initiated in Ref. [1] and proceed with the implementation of the Galerkin-Collocation domain decomposition (GCDD) applied to the dynamics of a spherical self-gravitating scalar field with the field equation in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 M. A. Alcoforado , R. F. Aranha , W. O. Barreto , H. P. de Oliveira

The timelike geodesic equations resulting from the Kerr gravitational metric element are derived and solved exactly including the contribution from the cosmological constant. The geodesic equations are derived, by solving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 G. V. Kraniotis

Given a smooth globally hyperbolic $(3+1)$-dimensional spacetime satisfying the Einstein vacuum equations (possibly with cosmological constant) and an inextendible timelike geodesic, we construct a family of metrics depending on a small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-14 Peter Hintz

We propose an adaptation of the Kerr-Schild method by implementing the correspondence relations (mapping) between Ricci-based Gravity (RBG) and General Relativity (GR). Basically, we generate GR known solutions from a canonical metric with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-03 Jonas Pinheiro da Silva

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and quasars are important astrophysical objects to understand. Recently, microlensing observations have constrained the size of the quasar X-ray emission region to be of the order of 10 gravitational radii of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-12 Bin Chen , Ronald Kantowski , Xinyu Dai , Eddie Baron , Prasad Maddumage

In this study, we review some current studies on Gravitational Lensing for black holes, mainly in the context of general relativity. We mainly focus on the analytical studies related to lensing with references to observational results. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Abhishek Chowdhuri , Saptaswa Ghosh , Arpan Bhattacharyya

Equations of fully general relativistic radiation hydrodynamics around a rotating black hole are derived by using the Kerr-Schild coordinate where there is no coordinate singularity at the event horizon. Since the radiation interacts with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rohta Takahashi

This paper presents the first photo-realistic LiDAR-Inertial-Camera Gaussian Splatting SLAM system that simultaneously addresses visual quality, geometric accuracy, and real-time performance. The proposed method performs robust and accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Xiaolei Lang , Jiajun Lv , Kai Tang , Laijian Li , Jianxin Huang , Lina Liu , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

Gravitational perturbations in a Kerr black hole background can not be decomposed into simple tensor harmonics in the time domain. Here, we make the mode decomposition only in the azimuthal direction and discuss the resulting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-18 Hiroyuki Nakano , Carlos O. Lousto

X-ray reflection spectroscopy is a powerful tool for testing the Kerr hypothesis and probing the strong gravity regime around accreting black holes. Most tests of General Relativity (GR) assume that the spacetime around a black hole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-19 Leda Gao , Swarnim Shashank , Cosimo Bambi

In this work, we investigate geodesics and black hole shadows in the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson spacetime. We show that the equations of motion for null geodesics are separable and admit analytical treatment, whereas timelike geodesics are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Xinyu Wang , Yehui Hou , Xi Wan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

A geometrical invariant for regular asymptotically Euclidean data for the vacuum Einstein field equations is constructed. This invariant vanishes if and only if the data correspond to a slice of the Kerr black hole spacetime --thus, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Thomas Bäckdahl , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

We investigate dynamics of probe particles moving in the near-horizon limit of extremal Myers-Perry black holes in arbitrary dimensions. Employing ellipsoidal coordinates we show that this problem is integrable and separable, extending the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Hovhannes Demirchian , Armen Nersessian , Saeedeh Sadeghian , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

It has now become possible to study directly, via numerical simulation, the evolution of relativistic, radiation-dominated flows around compact objects. With this in mind we set out explicitly covariant forms of the radiative transfer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Shane W. Davis , Charles F. Gammie

Exploiting internal spatial geometric constraints of sparse LiDARs is beneficial to depth completion, however, has been not explored well. This paper proposes an efficient method to learn geometry-aware embedding, which encodes the local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Hongyu Yang , Yi Zhang

It is well known that Teukolsky equation of gravitational perturbations provides a powerful tool for the investigation of the ringdown phase of a binary black hole merger, but it is applicable only for final configurations in the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-08 Zhong-Heng Li