Frame-Dragging Vortexes and Tidal Tendexes Attached to Colliding Black Holes: Visualizing the Curvature of Spacetime

被引：58

作者：

Owen, Robert ^{[1
]}

Brink, Jeandrew ^{[2
]}

Chen, Yanbei ^{[3
]}

Kaplan, Jeffrey D. ^{[3
]}

Lovelace, Geoffrey ^{[1
]}

Matthews, Keith D. ^{[3
]}

Nichols, David A. ^{[3
]}

Scheel, Mark A. ^{[3
]}

Zhang, Fan ^{[3
]}

Zimmerman, Aaron ^{[3
]}

Thorne, Kip S. ^{[3
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Cornell Univ, Ctr Radiophys & Space Res, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

[2] Natl Inst Theoret Phys, ZA-7602 Stellenbosch, South Africa

[3] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[4] Univ Stellenbosch, Wallenberg Res Ctr, Stellenbosch Inst Adv Study STIAS, ZA-7600 Stellenbosch, South Africa

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2011年 / 106卷 / 15期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.151101

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

When one splits spacetime into space plus time, the spacetime curvature (Weyl tensor) gets split into an "electric" part epsilon(jk) that describes tidal gravity and a "magnetic" part B-jk that describes differential dragging of inertial frames. We introduce tools for visualizing B-jk (frame-drag vortex lines, their vorticity, and vortexes) and epsilon(jk) (tidal tendex lines, their tendicity, and tendexes) and also visualizations of a black-hole horizon's (scalar) vorticity and tendicity. We use these tools to elucidate the nonlinear dynamics of curved spacetime in merging black-hole binaries.

引用

页数：4

共 5 条

[1] Visualizing spacetime curvature via frame-drag vortexes and tidal tendexes. II. Stationary black holes
Zhang, Fan
Zimmerman, Aaron
Nichols, David A.
Chen, Yanbei
Lovelace, Geoffrey
Matthews, Keith D.
Owen, Robert
Thorne, Kip S.
PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2012, 86 (08):
[2] Visualizing spacetime curvature via frame-drag vortexes and tidal tendexes. III. Quasinormal pulsations of Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes
Nichols, David A.
Zimmerman, Aaron
Chen, Yanbei
Lovelace, Geoffrey
Matthews, Keith D.
Owen, Robert
Zhang, Fan
Thorne, Kip S.
PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2012, 86 (10):
[3] Visualizing spacetime curvature via frame-drag vortexes and tidal tendexes: General theory and weak-gravity applications
Nichols, David A.
Owen, Robert
Zhang, Fan
Zimmerman, Aaron
Brink, Jeandrew
Chen, Yanbei
Kaplan, Jeffrey D.
Lovelace, Geoffrey
Matthews, Keith D.
Scheel, Mark A.
Thorne, Kip S.
PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2011, 84 (12):
[4] Influence of frame-dragging on magnetic null points near rotating black holes
Karas, V.
Kopacek, O.
Kunneriath, D.
CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY, 2012, 29 (03)
[5] Evidence for frame-dragging around spinning black holes in X-ray binaries
Cui, W
Zhang, SN
Chen, W
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 1998, 492 (01): : L53 - L57

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