Epicyclic oscillations of fluid bodies: II. Strong gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/5/014zbMATH Open1089.83018arXivastro-ph/0511375OpenAlexW2091107225MaRDI QIDQ3377905FDOQ3377905

Authors: Omer M. Blaes, Jiří Horák, Włodek Kluźniak, Paola Rebusco, Marek A. Abramowicz 

Publication date: 29 March 2006

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Fluids in external gravity may oscillate with frequencies characteristic of the epicyclic motions of test particles. We explicitly demonstrate that global oscillations of a slender, perfect fluid torus around a Kerr black hole admit incompressible vertical and radial epicyclic modes. Our results may be directly relevant to one of the most puzzling astrophysical phenomena -- high (hundreds of hertz) frequency quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) detected in X-ray fluxes from several black hole sources. Such QPOs are pairs of stable frequencies in the 3/2 ratio. It seems that they originate a few gravitational radii away from the black hole and thus observations of them have the potential to become an accurate probe of super-strong gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511375

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55)

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