Strong gravity effects of rotating black holes: quasi-periodic oscillations

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/4/045010zbMATH Open1266.83098arXiv1205.2838OpenAlexW3105325440MaRDI QIDQ4920133FDOQ4920133

Authors: A. N. Aliev, Göksel Daylan Esmer, Pamir Talazan 

Publication date: 16 May 2013

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

Abstract: We explore strong gravity effects of the geodesic motion in the spacetime of rotating black holes in general relativity and braneworld gravity. We focus on the description of the motion in terms of three fundamental frequencies: The orbital frequency, the radial and vertical epicyclic frequencies. For a Kerr black hole, we perform a detailed numerical analysis of these frequencies at the innermost stable circular orbits and beyond them as well as at the characteristic stable orbits, at which the radial epicyclic frequency attains its highest value. We find that the values of the epicyclic frequencies for a class of stable orbits exhibit good qualitative agreement with the observed frequencies of the twin peaks quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) in some black hole binaries. We also find that at the characteristic stable circular orbits, where the radial (or the vertical) epicyclic frequency has maxima, the vertical and radial epicyclic frequencies exhibit an approximate 2 : 1 ratio even in the case of near-extreme rotation of the black hole. Next, we perform a similar analysis of the fundamental frequencies for a rotating braneworld black hole and argue that the existence of such a black hole with a negative tidal charge, whose angular momentum exceeds the Kerr bound in general relativity, does not confront with the observations of high frequency QPOs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2838

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zbMATH Keywords

Kerr black holegeodesic motionstable orbitsstrong gravity effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Black holes (83C57) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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