GRG Topical Collection "Testing the Kerr spacetime with gravitational-wave and electromagnetic observations"
Special collection of invited articles completed and free-to-read until 11 December 2019
Guest editor: Emanuele Berti
One of the Holy Grails of observational astronomy is to confirm the prediction that black holes in the Universe are described by the Kerr solution of Einstein’s field equations of general relativity. This Topical Collection provides a status report of theoretical and experimental progress towards confirming the “Kerr paradigm” through X-ray astronomy, gravitational lensing, stellar tidal disruption events, superradiance, and gravitational-wave observations of black hole binary mergers.
Berti, E.: Topical collection: Testing the Kerr spacetime with gravitational-wave and electromagnetic observations (EDITORIAL), Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 51(11), 140 (2019).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-019-2622-2
- Krawczynski, H.: Difficulties of quantitative tests of the Kerr-hypothesis with X-ray observations of mass accreting black holes. Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 50(8), 100 (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-018-2419-8 - Cunha, P.V.P., Herdeiro, C.A.R.: Shadows and strong gravitational lensing: a brief review. Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 50(4), 42 (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-018-2361-9 - Psaltis, D.: Testing general relativity with the Event Horizon Telescope. Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 51(10), 137 (2019).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-019-2611-5 - Stone, N.C., Kesden, M., Cheng, R.M., van Velzen, S.: Stellar tidal disruption events in general relativity. Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 51(2), 30 (2019).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-019-2510-9 - Schnittman, J.D.: The collisional Penrose process. Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 50(6), 77 (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-018-2373-5 - Berti, E., Yagi, K., Yunes, N.: Extreme gravity tests with gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences: (I) inspiral-merger. Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 50(4), 46 (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-018-2362-8 - Berti, E., Yagi, K., Yang, H., Yunes, N.: Extreme gravity tests with gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences: (II) ringdown. Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 50(5), 49 (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-018-2372-6