Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2010-12-22
Phys.Rev.Lett.106:151101,2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
4 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.151101
When one splits spacetime into space plus time, the spacetime curvature (Weyl tensor) gets split into an "electric" part E_{jk} that describes tidal gravity and a "magnetic" part B_{jk} that describes differential dragging of inertial frames. We introduce tools for visualizing B_{jk} (frame-drag vortex lines, their vorticity, and vortexes) and E_{jk} (tidal tendex lines, their tendicity, and tendexes), and also visualizations of a black-hole horizon's (scalar) vorticity and tendicity. We use these tools to elucidate the nonlinear dynamics of curved spacetime in merging black-hole binaries.
Brink Jeandrew
Chen Yanbei
Kaplan Jeffrey D.
Lovelace Geoffrey
Matthews Keith D.
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