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GR Kerr Light Program
written by
Wolfgang Christian,
Mario Belloni, and
Anne Cox
The GR Kerr Light program simulates the path of light in the equatorial plane near a rotating black hole using the Kerr metric. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the gr_kerr_light.jar file will run the program if Java is installed. The default setting is light with an initial r value of 3.0 near a black-hole with angular momentum parameter, J/M = 0.75.
GR Kerr Light is part of a suite of Open Source Physics programs that model aspects of General Relativity. Other programs provide additional visualizations. They can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, OSP, or General Relativity. Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java. 
2 supplemental documents are available
GR Kerr Light DocumentationA pdf document that briefly describes the GR Kerr Light program. It describes how to use the gr_kerr_light.jar file and contains short tutorial exercises and for use with the gr_kerr_light.jar file. download 106kb .pdf Published: May 1, 2009 
GR Kerr Light DistributionThe materials distributed in this zip file are in support of the GR Kerr Light program. This distribution contains the GR Kerr Light program, documentation and exercises. download 563kb .zip Published: May 1, 2009
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=8859">Christian, W, M. Belloni, and A. Cox. "GR Kerr Light Program."</a>
AIP Format
W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR KERR LIGHT PROGRAM (2009), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8859&DocID=1182).
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W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR KERR LIGHT PROGRAM (2009), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8859&DocID=1182>.
APA Format
Christian, W., Belloni, M., & Cox, A. (2009). GR Kerr Light Program [Computer software]. Retrieved September 26, 2017, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8859&DocID=1182
Chicago Format
Christian, W, M. Belloni, and A. Cox. "GR Kerr Light Program." https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8859&DocID=1182 (accessed 26 September 2017).
MLA Format
Christian, Wolfgang, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox. GR Kerr Light Program. Computer software. 2009. Java 1.5. 26 Sep. 2017 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8859&DocID=1182>.
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@misc{
Author = "Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni and Anne Cox",
Title = {GR Kerr Light Program},
Month = {May},
Year = {2009}
}
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%A Wolfgang Christian
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General Relativity (GR) Package
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