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A new approximation of photon geodesics in Schwarzschild spacetime

LA PLACA, Riccardo, Pavel BAKALA, Luigi STELLA and Maurizio FALANGA

Basic information

Original name

A new approximation of photon geodesics in Schwarzschild spacetime

Authors

LA PLACA, Riccardo, Pavel BAKALA, Luigi STELLA and Maurizio FALANGA

Edition

Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 2019

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

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International impact
Změněno: 15/10/2019 08:55, RNDr. Pavel Bakala, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

In this research note we introduce a new approximation of photon geodesics in Schwarzschild spacetime which is especially useful to describe highly bent trajectories, for which the angle between the initial emission position and the line of sight to the observer approaches π : this corresponds to the points behind the central mass of the Schwarzschild metric with respect to the observer. The approximation maintains very good accuracy overall, with deviations from the exact numerical results below 1% up to the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) located at 6 GM/c2 .