Blacklight: A General-Relativistic Ray-Tracing and Analysis Tool

Abstract

We describe the Blacklight code, intended for post-processing general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulation data. Beyond polarized ray tracing of synchrotron radiation, it can produce a number of outputs that aid in analyzing data sets, such as maps of auxiliary quantities and false-color renderings. Additional features include support for adaptive mesh refinement input, slow-light calculations, and adaptive ray tracing. The code is written with ease of use, readability, and transparency as primary objectives, while it still achieves high performance. Blacklight is publicly available and released into the public domain.

Code paper; to be published in ApJS; code available at https://github.com/c-white/blacklight

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