Brandon Carter
![]() | This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (May 2023) |
Brandon Carter | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Born | 1942 (age 81–82) Australia |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | Anthropic principle Carter constant No-hair theorem Carter–Penrose diagrams Doomsday argument |
Scientific career | |
Fields | General relativity |
Institutions | CNRS |
Doctoral advisor | Dennis Sciama |
Brandon Carter, FRS (born 1942) is an Australian theoretical physicist who explores the properties of black holes, and was the first to name and employ the anthropic principle in its contemporary form. He is a researcher at the Meudon campus of the Laboratoire Univers et Théories, part of the French CNRS.
Biography
Carter studied at the University of Cambridge under Dennis Sciama. He found the exact solution of the geodesic equations for the Kerr/Newman electrovacuum solution, and the maximal analytic extension of this solution. In the process, he discovered the extraordinary fourth constant of motion and the Killing–Yano tensor. Together with Werner Israel and Stephen Hawking, he proved partially the no-hair theorem in general relativity, stating that all stationary black holes are completely characterized by mass, charge, and angular momentum. In 1982 with astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet, he invented the concept of tidal disruption event (TDE), namely the destruction of a star passing in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole. They showed that this phenomenon could result in the violent destruction of the star in the form of a "stellar pancake", causing a reactivation of nuclear reactions in the core of the star in the stage of its maximum compression. More recently, Carter, Chachoua, and Chamel (2005) have formulated a relativistic theory of elastic deformations in neutron stars.
References
- Carter, B. (1968). "Global structure of the Kerr family of gravitational fields". Phys. Rev. 174 (5): 1559–1571. Bibcode:1968PhRv..174.1559C. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.174.1559.
- Carter, B. (1968). "Hamilton-Jacobi and Schrödinger separable solutions of Einstein's equations". Commun. Math. Phys. 10 (4): 280–310. Bibcode:1968CMaPh..10..280C. doi:10.1007/BF03399503. S2CID 122098509.
- Carter, B. (1970). "An axisymmetric black hole has only two degrees of freedom". Phys. Rev. Lett. 26 (6): 331–333. Bibcode:1971PhRvL..26..331C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.26.331.
- Carter, B.; Hartle, J. B., eds. (1987). Gravitation in astrophysics, Cargese, 1986. New York: Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-42590-4.
- Carter, B.; Luminet, J.- P. (1982). "Pancake Detonation of Stars by Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei". Nature. 296 (211).
- Carter, B.; Chachoua, Elie & Chamel, Nicolas (2006). "Covariant Newtonian and Relativistic dynamics of (magneto)-elastic solid model for neutron star crust". General Relativity and Gravitation. 38 (1): 83–119. arXiv:gr-qc/0507006. Bibcode:2006GReGr..38...83C. doi:10.1007/s10714-005-0210-0. S2CID 1860044.
External links
- Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) Archived 1 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- Brandon Carter at the LUTH (in French)
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from April 2022
- Articles lacking in-text citations from May 2023
- All articles lacking in-text citations
- Pages using Template:Post-nominals with missing parameters
- Articles with hCards
- Webarchive template wayback links
- Articles with French-language sources (fr)
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with KBR identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NLA identifiers
- Articles with CINII identifiers
- Articles with MATHSN identifiers
- Articles with MGP identifiers
- Articles with ZBMATH identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1942 births
- 20th-century Australian physicists
- 21st-century Australian physicists
- French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Living people