Numerical study of nonspherical black hole accretion
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Classical General Relativity

Analytic and foundational general-relativity work — spacetime structure, Kerr and Schwarzschild geometries, and strong-field theory.

Image: A Numerical Study of Nonspherical Black Hole Accretion (Hawley, Smarr, Wilson, 1984)

Analytic and foundational general-relativity work — spacetime structure, Kerr and Schwarzschild geometries, and strong-field theory.

  1. Mass Formula for Kerr Black Holes
    publication

    Mass formula for Kerr black holes

    1973-01-08

    L. Smarr, Physical Review Letters, 30, 71-73 (1973).

  2. publication

    Surface Geometry Of Charged Rotating Black Holes

    1973-01-15

    L. Smarr, Physical Review D7, 289-295. (1973).

  3. publication

    Maximally Slicing a Black Hole

    1973-05-15

    F. Estabrook, H. Wahlquist, S. Christensen, B. DeWitt, L. Smarr and E. Tsiang, Physical Review D7, 2814-2817, (1973).

  4. publication

    Are There Geon Analogues in Sourceless Gauge-Field Theories?

    1977-03-01

    S. Coleman and L. Smarr, Comm. Math. Phys., 56, 1-9 (1977).

  5. media

    University of Texas – Center for Relativity

    1978-04-01

    April 1, 1978 – The Center for Relativity began in 1962, under the direction of Alfred Schild. New Chair Harold Hanson conceived the idea of forming, within the Physics Department, centers of excellence.

  6. publication

    Radiation Gauge in General Relativity

    1978-04-15

    L. Smarr and J. W. York, Jr., Physical Review D17, 1945-1956 (1978).

  7. publication

    Kinematical Conditions in the Construction of Spacetime

    1978-05-15

    L. Smarr and J. W. York, Jr., Physical Review D17, 2529-2551 (1978).

  8. publication

    Time Functions in Numerical Relativity: I. Marginally Bound Dust Collapse

    1979-04-15

    D. Eardley and L. Smarr, Physical Review D19, 2239-2259 (1979).

  9. publication

    The Contributions of Bryce DeWitt to Classical General Relativity

    1983-01-01

    Larry Smarr in Ahead of His Time: Bryce S. DeWitt. Essays on the Quantum Theory of Gravity in Honor of his 60th Birthday, 1984, ed. S. Christensen (Adam Hilger, Lmt.: Bristol, England).