The orbital Lense-Thirring precession in a strong field

DOI10.1007/S10714-019-2563-9zbMATH Open1419.83045arXiv1906.05309OpenAlexW3098473422MaRDI QIDQ2003385FDOQ2003385

Authors: Vladimir N. Strokov, Shant Khlghatyan 

Publication date: 8 July 2019

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the exact evolution of the orbital angular momentum of a massive particle in the gravitational field of a Kerr black hole. We show analytically that, for a wide class of orbits, the angular momentum's hodograph is always close to a circle. This applies to both bounded and unbounded orbits that do not end up in the black hole. Deviations from the circular shape do not exceed $approx10\mathrm{\%}$ and $approx7\mathrm{\%}$ for bounded and unbounded orbits, respectively. We also find that nutation provides an accurate approximation for those deviations, which fits the exact curve within $sim0.01\mathrm{\%}$ for the orbits of maximal deviation. Remarkably, the more the deviation, the better the nutation approximates it. Thus, we demonstrate that the orbital Lense-Thirring precession, originally obtained in the weak-field limit, is also a valid description in the general case of (almost) arbitrary exact orbits. As a by-product, we also derive the parameters of unstable spherical timelike orbits as a function of their radii and arbitrary rotation parameter $a$ and Carter's constant $Q$. We verify our results numerically for all the kinds of orbits studied.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05309

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesgeodesicsKerr black holeLense-Thirring precessionCarter's constant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Black holes (83C57)

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