Geometrically thick tori around compact objects with a quadrupole moment

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABFEBFMaRDI QIDQ5163549zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan-Menno Memmen, Volker Perlick

Publication date 4 November 2021

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

\(q\)-metricaccretionErez-RosenPolish doughnutsquadrupole momentthick accretion tori

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60) 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) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

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.

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