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GR Kerr Exploding Program
written by Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox
The GR Kerr Exploding program simulates orbits of objects released in an explosion in the equatorial plane of a rotating black hole using the Kerr metric.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the gr_kerr_exploding.jar file will run the program if Java is installed. The default setting is an explosion with an initial velocity of 0.9 and an r-coordinate value of 3.0 near a black-hole at the origin with angular momentum parameter, J/M = .75.

GR Kerr Exploding 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
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Astronomy
- Fundamentals
= Relativity
Relativity
- General Relativity
- Upper Undergraduate
- Lower Undergraduate
- Graduate/Professional
- Instructional Material
= Interactive Simulation
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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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May 1, 2009
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GR Kerr

Author: Parampreet Singh
Posted: June 16, 2013 at 2:25PM

Very nice simulation

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W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR KERR EXPLODING PROGRAM (2009), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8858&DocID=1179).
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W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR KERR EXPLODING PROGRAM (2009), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8858&DocID=1179>.
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Christian, W., Belloni, M., & Cox, A. (2009). GR Kerr Exploding Program [Computer software]. Retrieved December 14, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8858&DocID=1179
Chicago Format
Christian, W, M. Belloni, and A. Cox. "GR Kerr Exploding Program." https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8858&DocID=1179 (accessed 14 December 2024).
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Christian, Wolfgang, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox. GR Kerr Exploding Program. Computer software. 2009. Java 1.5. 14 Dec. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8858&DocID=1179>.
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