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[ascl:1305.008] YNOGK: Calculating null geodesics in the Kerr spacetime

YNOGK, written in Fortran, calculates the null geodesics in the Kerr spacetime. It uses Weierstrass' and Jacobi's elliptic functions to express all coordinates and affine parameters as analytical and numerical functions of a parameter $p$, which is an integral value along the geodesic. The information about the turning points do not need to be specified in advance by the user, allowing applications such as imaging, the calculation of line profiles or the observer-emitter problem to become root finding problems. Elliptic integrations are computed by Carlson's elliptic integral method, which allows fast computation.

Code site:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220211162431/http://www1.ynao.ac.cn/~yangxl/yxl.html
Described in:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJS..207....6Y
Bibcode:
2013ascl.soft05008Y

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