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Testing the Kerr spacetime with gravitational-wave and electromagnetic observations
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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.
Editors
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Emanuele Berti
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Articles (8 in this collection)
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Testing general relativity with the Event Horizon Telescope
Authors
- Dimitrios Psaltis
- Content type: Invited Report: Introduction to Current Research
- Published: 28 October 2019
- Article: 137
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Stellar tidal disruption events in general relativity
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Nicholas C. Stone
- Michael Kesden
- Sjoert van Velzen
- Content type: Editor’s Choice (Invited Review: State of the Field)
- Published: 12 February 2019
- Article: 30
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Difficulties of quantitative tests of the Kerr-hypothesis with X-ray observations of mass accreting black holes
Authors
- Henric Krawczynski
- Content type: Editor’s Choice (Invited Review: State of the Field)
- Published: 24 July 2018
- Article: 100
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The collisional Penrose process
Authors
- Jeremy D. Schnittman
- Content type: Editor’s Choice (Invited Review: State of the Field)
- Published: 05 June 2018
- Article: 77
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Extreme gravity tests with gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences: (II) ringdown
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Emanuele Berti
- Kent Yagi
- Nicolás Yunes
- Content type: Review Article
- Published: 06 April 2018
- Article: 49
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Extreme gravity tests with gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences: (I) inspiral–merger
Authors
- Emanuele Berti
- Kent Yagi
- Nicolás Yunes
- Content type: Editor’s Choice (Review Article)
- Published: 03 April 2018
- Article: 46
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Shadows and strong gravitational lensing: a brief review
Authors
- Pedro V. P. Cunha
- Carlos A. R. Herdeiro
- Content type: Editor’s Choice (Invited Review: State of the Field)
- Published: 20 March 2018
- Article: 42