Teukolsky

Version 0.2 Copyright 2019 Black Hole Perturbation Toolkit

The Teukolsky package provides a set of functions for computing solutions to the Teukolsky equation for perturbations about the spacetime of a Kerr black hole.

Getting the package

The latest development version will always be available from the project git repository:

git clone https://github.com/BlackHolePerturbationToolkit/Teukolsky.git

Requirements

Mathematica: Teukolsky requires a recent version of Mathematica. It is typically tested with only the latest available version.

Installation

Clone the repository and place it somewhere on Mathematica's $Path. Typical locations are inside ${HOME}/.Mathematica/Applications/ for Linux or inside ${HOME}/Library/Mathematica/Applications/ for Mac OSX.

Usage

The package may be loaded into Mathematica using the command:

<< Teukolsky`

Examples

Examples are included in the documentation. See the Teukolsky page in Documentation Center.

Changelog

25 May 2019: Move the development work into the main branch. You can now calculate the flux for s=-2 for a particle on a circular, equatorial orbit 7 Dec 2018: The module is going through massive API changes so do not update for a while 7 Jul 2017: Initial version released.

Known problems

Known bugs are recorded in the project bug tracker:

https://github.com/BlackHolePerturbationToolkit/Teukolsky/issues

License

This code is distributed under the MIT License. Details can be found in the LICENSE file.

Authors

Barry Wardell
Niels Warburton
Marc Casals
Adrian Ottewill
Chris Kavanagh