Spherical Photon Orbits Around a Kerr Black Hole

By Edward Teo. 2003

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

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3. V. Perlick
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In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. O. Tsupko
2. P. Cunha
3. Carlos A. R. Herdeiro
4. V. Perlick
5. A. Lupsasca
6. S. Gralla
7. P. Blue
8. D. Holz

Citations in the corpus

• Black hole shadows, photon rings, and lensing rings (2019, background): “We first summarize the basic results on image coordinates [7] and photon orbits [18] that will be needed for our analysis.”
• Calculating black hole shadows: Review of analytical studies (2021, background): “The spherically symmetric and static traversable wormholes of Morris and Thorne have been generalized to axisymmetric and stationary (i.e., rotating) traversable wormholes by Teo [150].”
• Lensing by Kerr black holes (2019, unknown): “[22].”
• Silhouette of M87*: A new window to peek into the world of hidden dimensions (2019, background): “n and the equatorial plane, respectively. Note that for non-zero Carter constant the motion of the photon is not conned to the equatorial plane, which endows its orbital motion a much rich structure [61]. To construct the BH shadow in the observer’s sky, it is customary to consider the observer to b”
• Shadows and strong gravitational lensing: a brief review (2018, background): “For such coordinates, orbits with a constant rBL exist, known in the literature as spherical orbits [28] (see section 3).”
• Hidden symmetries and decay for the wave equation on the Kerr spacetime (2009, background): “There are many descriptions of the Kerr spacetime and its geodesics, including [5, 27, 50].”
• Observing the Inner Shadow of a Black Hole: A Direct View of the Event Horizon (2021, background): “32 2 Unstable bound null geodesics, which neither escape to infinity nor intersect the event horizon, form a “photon shell” (Bardeen 1973; Teo 2003; Johnson et al. 2020) outside of the outer event horizon.”