Perturbative photon escape cones in the Kerr spacetime

J Baines, M Visser - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.13058, 2024 - arxiv.org
We consider the perturbative, fully explicit, analytical behaviour of photon escape cones in
the Kerr spacetime. When one conducts the fully general non-perturbative Kerr analysis, one …

Exact analytic photon escape cones and silhouettes for extremal Kerr

J Baines, M Visser - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.08875, 2024 - arxiv.org
We exhibit exact analytic, fully explicit, photon escape cones and related silhouettes ("
shadows") at arbitrary distance from the extremal Kerr black hole. In contrast to the situation …