Geometrically thick tori around compact objects with a quadrupole moment

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABFEBFzbMATH Open1481.83051arXiv2103.04702OpenAlexW3134747180MaRDI QIDQ5163549FDOQ5163549

Authors: Jan-Menno Memmen, Volker Perlick 

Publication date: 4 November 2021

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

Abstract: We study geometrically thick perfect-fluid tori with constant specific angular momentum, so-called "Polish doughnuts", orbiting deformed compact objects with a quadrupole moment. More specifically, we consider two different asymptotically flat, static and axisymmetric vacuum solutions to Einstein's field equation with a non-zero quadrupole moment, the q-metric and the Erez-Rosen spacetime. It is our main goal to find features of Polish doughnuts in these two spacetimes which qualitatively distinguish them from Polish doughnuts in the Schwarzschild spacetime. As a main result we find that, for both metrics, there is a range of positive (Geroch-Hansen) quadrupole moments which allows for the existence of double tori. If these double tori fill their Roche lobes completely, their meridional cross-section has the shape of a fish, with the body of the fish corresponding to the outer torus and the fish-tail corresponding to the inner torus. Such double tori do not exist in the Schwarzschild spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04702

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zbMATH Keywords

accretion\(q\)-metricquadrupole momentPolish doughnutsErez-Rosenthick accretion tori

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Black holes (83C57) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60)

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