Black hole continuum spectra as a test of general relativity: quadratic gravity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/aa6dbczbMath1370.83037arXiv1701.07003WikidataQ59941614 ScholiaQ59941614MaRDI QIDQ5350381

Nicolás Yunes, Dimitry Ayzenberg

Publication date: 31 August 2017

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07003

zbMATH Keywords

black holes; general relativity; Kerr metric; accretion disks; modified theories of gravity; Chern-Simons gravity; quadratic gravity; continuum spectrum; Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C57: Black holes

83D05: Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories

85A15: Galactic and stellar structure

58J28: Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants

83C25: Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory

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Uses Software

• GRTensorII

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