“Peeling” refers to the fact that different parts of the metric (specifically the Weyl tensor) fall off at different
rates with distance. The dominant monopole component is effectively the mass of the central object, while the
next-order component, the current dipole, is effectively the spin or angular momentum of the central black
hole. The “peeling” constraints imposed in [458] ensured that the mass and spin were not changed by the
perturbation. Such changes are already contained within the Kerr metric family and do not represent modifications to
GR.