General relativistic radiative transfer code in rotating black hole space–time: ARTIST

• Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 464; no. 4; pp. 4567 - 4585
• Main Authors: 梅村 雅之, Takahashi Rohta, Umemura Masayuki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Oxford University Press 01.02.2017
• Subjects: Artists; Astronomy; Bending; Black holes; Black holes (astronomy); Geodesy; Propagation; Radiation; Radiative transfer; Scattering; Wave fronts; Wave propagation

We present a general relativistic radiative transfer code, ARTIST (Authentic Radiative Transfer In Space–Time), that is a perfectly causal scheme to pursue the propagation of radiation with absorption and scattering around a Kerr black hole. The code explicitly solves the invariant radiation intensi...