MALBEC: a new CUDA-C ray-tracer in general relativity

DOI10.1007/S10714-018-2387-ZzbMATH Open1392.83009arXiv1803.08320OpenAlexW2794222981WikidataQ129732199 ScholiaQ129732199MaRDI QIDQ725352FDOQ725352

Authors: Gonzalo D. Quiroga 

Publication date: 1 August 2018

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

Abstract: A new CUDA-C code for tracing orbits around non-charged black holes is presented. This code, named MALBEC, take advantage of the graphic processing units and the CUDA platform for tracking null and timelike test particles in Schwarzschild and Kerr. Also, a new general set of equations that describe the closed circular orbits of any timelike test particle in the equatorial plane is derived. These equations are extremely important in order to compare the analytical behavior of the orbits with the numerical results and verify the correct implementation of the Runge-Kutta algorithm in MALBEC. Finally, other numerical tests are performed, demonstrating that MALBEC is able to reproduce some well-known results in these metrics in a faster and more efficient way than a conventional CPU implementation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08320

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesics around black holestimelike test particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Black holes (83C57) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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Cited In (3)

• GYOTO 2.0: a polarized relativistic ray-tracing code
• GYOTO: a new general relativistic ray-tracing code
• MALBEC

Uses Software

• CUDA
• GYOTO

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