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most citedKilling horizons and surface gravities for a well-behaved three-function generalisation of the Kerr spacetime

16 citations · 26 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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gr-qc2024

Perturbative photon escape cones in the Kerr spacetime

Joshua Baines, Matt Visser

We consider the perturbative, fully explicit, analytical behaviour of photon escape cones in the Kerr spacetime. When one conducts the fully general non-perturbative Kerr analysis,…

gr-qc2023

Photon escape cones, physical and optical metrics, asymptotic and near-horizon physics

Joshua Baines, Matt Visser

We consider the explicit analytic behaviour of photon escape cones in generic static spherically symmetric spacetimes, emphasizing the interplay between the physical spacetime metr…

gr-qc2023

Defect wormholes are defective

Joshua Baines, Rudeep Gaur, Matt Visser

The various "defect wormholes" developed by Klinkhamer have recently attracted considerable attention -- especially in view of the fact that the simplest example, the so-called "va…

gr-qc2023

Explicit formulae for surface gravities in stationary circular axi-symmetric spacetimes

Joshua Baines, Matt Visser

Using minimalist assumptions we develop a natural functional decomposition for the spacetime metric, and explicit tractable formulae for the surface gravities, in arbitrary station…

gr-qc202316 cited

Killing horizons and surface gravities for a well-behaved three-function generalisation of the Kerr spacetime

Joshua Baines, Matt Visser

Thanks to the recent advent of the event horizon telescope (EHT), we now have the opportunity to test the physical ramifications of the strong-field near-horizon regime for astroph…

gr-qc202210 cited

Physically motivated ansatz for the Kerr spacetime

Joshua Baines, Matt Visser

Despite some 60 years of work on the subject of the Kerr rotating black hole there is as yet no widely accepted physically based and pedagogically viable ansatz suitable for derivi…