General Relativity and Gravitation - 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 (this opens in a new tab) 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 (this opens in a new tab)
- 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 (this opens in a new tab) - 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 (this opens in a new tab) - 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 (this opens in a new tab) - 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 (this opens in a new tab) - Schnittman, J.D.: The collisional Penrose process. Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 50(6), 77 (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-018-2373-5 (this opens in a new tab) - 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 (this opens in a new tab) - 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 (this opens in a new tab)