Examining the Kerr metric through wave fronts of null geodesics

DOI10.1007/S10714-019-2518-1MaRDI QIDQ1730001zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas P. Kling, Eric Grotzke, Kevin Roebuck, Harry Waite

Publication date 7 March 2019

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00990

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensingsingularitiescausticsKerr metricnull geodesicswavefronts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) General questions in astronomy and astrophysics (85A04) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: We examine the singularities of the wave fronts of null geodesics from point sources in the Kerr Metric. We find that the wave fronts develop a tube like structure that collapses non-symmetrically, leading to cusp features in the wave front singularities. As the wave front advances, the cusps trace out an astroidal shaped caustic tube, which had been discovered previously using lens mapping and geodesic deviation methods. Thus, the wave front approach in this study helps to complete a picture of caustics and gravitational lensing in the Kerr geometry.

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