Ray-tracing and polarized radiative transfer in General Relativity
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2017-06-28 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We discuss the problem of polarized radiative transfer in general relativity. We present a set of equations suitable for solving the problem numerically for the case of an arbitrary space-time metric, and show numerical solutions to example problems. The solutions are computed with a new ray-tracing code, Arcmancer, developed by the authors.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1612.02828,
title = {Ray-tracing and polarized radiative transfer in General Relativity},
author = {Pauli Pihajoki and Antti Rantala and Peter H. Johansson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02828},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium No. 324, New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics