GR Kerr Light Program

APS Excellence in Physics Education Award
November 2019

Science SPORE Prize
November 2011

The Open Source Physics Project is supported by NSF DUE-0442581.

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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.

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Last Modified: May 1, 2009

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Astronomy - Fundamentals = Relativity Relativity - General Relativity	- Upper Undergraduate - Lower Undergraduate - Graduate/Professional	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation

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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a GNU General Public License Version 3 license. Additional information is available.
Rights Holder:: Wolfgang Christian
PACSs:: 01.50.hv; 04.20.-q; 07.05.Tp
Keywords:: black-hole, open source physics, osp, spinning black hole
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created May 1, 2009 by Anne Cox
Record Updated:: August 22, 2009 by Gregory Comer
Last Update when Cataloged:: May 1, 2009
Other Collections:: The Spacetime Emporium

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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/OSP/items/detail.cfm?ID=8859">Christian, W, M. Belloni, and A. Cox. "GR Kerr Light Program."</a>

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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>.

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Christian, W., Belloni, M., & Cox, A. (2009). GR Kerr Light Program [Computer software]. Retrieved October 6, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8859&DocID=1182

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Christian, W, M. Belloni, and A. Cox. "GR Kerr Light Program." https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8859&DocID=1182 (accessed 6 October 2024).

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Christian, Wolfgang, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox. GR Kerr Light Program. Computer software. 2009. Java 1.5. 6 Oct. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8859&DocID=1182>.

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