2008-09-12

black-hole orbits

Today was black-hole-orbit day, with talks by Gabe Perez-Giz and Janna Levin (both Columbia) on methods for calculating and classifying all possible orbits around black holes. Their techniques make use of periodic orbits, which comprise a dense set that fully covers orbit space (at least for extreme mass ratio). Two nice talks and lots of discussion.

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