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GR Kerr Wavefront Program
written by Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox
The GR Kerr Wavefront program simulates the path of light emitted in all directions 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_wavefront.jar file will run the program if Java is installed. The default setting is a wavefront with an initial r value of 3.0 near a black hole with an angular momentum, J/M = .75.

GR Kerr Wavefront program 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
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Astronomy
- Fundamentals
= Relativity
Relativity
- General Relativity
- Lower Undergraduate
- Upper Undergraduate
- Graduate/Professional
- Instructional Material
= Interactive Simulation
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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
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when Cataloged:
May 1, 2009
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Posted: October 29, 2009 at 6:09AM
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W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR KERR WAVEFRONT PROGRAM (2009), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8861&DocID=1188).
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W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR KERR WAVEFRONT PROGRAM (2009), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8861&DocID=1188>.
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Christian, W., Belloni, M., & Cox, A. (2009). GR Kerr Wavefront Program [Computer software]. Retrieved October 3, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8861&DocID=1188
Chicago Format
Christian, W, M. Belloni, and A. Cox. "GR Kerr Wavefront Program." https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8861&DocID=1188 (accessed 3 October 2024).
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Christian, Wolfgang, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox. GR Kerr Wavefront Program. Computer software. 2009. Java 1.5. 3 Oct. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8861&DocID=1188>.
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@misc{ Author = "Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni and Anne Cox", Title = {GR Kerr Wavefront Program}, Month = {May}, Year = {2009} }
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GR Kerr Wavefront Program:

Is Part Of General Relativity (GR) Package

The General Relativity (GR) Package contains curricular materials for the teaching of general relativity using the GR Kerr Wavefront Program.

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