A fast new public code for computing photon orbits in a Kerr spacetime

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 696, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1616-1629

  Dexter, Jason ^a   Agol, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

accretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; radiative transfer; relativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649790851     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/696/2/1616     Document Type: Article

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