Null Geodesics for Kerr & Schwarzschild Geometry

🐞 What bugs you? Null-geodesics is the path traced by light rays in 4-D space-time. We aim to calculate null geodesics around non-rotating (Schwarzschild) and rotating (Kerr) massive bodies given the initial conditions. This feature would support the one of the celebrated phenomenons in GR, gravitational lensing.

🎯 Goal

• Null geodesic in Kerr/Schwarzschild space-time
• Plotting class for both Kerr and Schwarzschild null geodesics.

💡 Possible solutions Papers for references :

• https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.02063
• https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2004/36/aa0814/aa0814.html
• http://www.math.mcgill.ca/gantumur/math599w17/project-kerr.pdf

📋 Steps to solve the problem

• Comment below about what you’ve started working on.
• Add, commit, push your changes
• Submit a pull request and add this in comments - Addresses #<put issue number here>
• Ask for a review in comments section of pull request
• Celebrate your contribution to this project 🎉

[GTron-1729]

As the project is touching the concept of Gravitational lensing , i guess what if we could add an addon feature of determining the existence of dark matter substructure , from gravitational lensing simulations , we could prove the existence of dark matter from it? #newfeature

[ritzvik]

Willingness to immerse yourself in physics during the community bonding period and first 1-2 weeks would do 😃

Regards, Ritwik

On 22-Feb-2020, at 2:20 PM, Vedant Paranjape [e-mail] wrote:

Hey, i am coming from gsoc page, I’m am from electronics engineering background, with decent coding skills, does this problem idea require extensive physics knowledge?

— You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.