Circular orbits in Kerr-Taub-NUT spacetime and their implications for accreting black holes and naked singularities

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DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2019/05/034zbMATH Open1481.83015arXiv1901.04233OpenAlexW3105189645WikidataQ64297236 ScholiaQ64297236MaRDI QIDQ5862953FDOQ5862953


Authors: Chandrachur Chakraborty, Sudip Bhattacharyya Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 10 March 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It has recently been proposed that the accreting collapsed object GRO J1655--40 could contain a non-zero gravitomagnetic monopole, and hence could be better described with the more general Kerr-Taub-NUT (KTN) spacetime, instead of the Kerr spacetime. This makes the KTN spacetime astrophysically relevant. In this paper, we study properties of various circular orbits in the KTN spacetime, and find the locations of circular photon orbits (CPOs) and innermost-stable-circular-orbits (ISCOs). Such orbits are important to interpret the observed X-ray spectral and timing properties of accreting collapsed objects, viz., black holes and naked singularities. Here we show that the usual methods to find the ISCO radius do not work for certain cases in the KTN spacetime, and we propose alternate ways. For example, the ISCO equation does not give any positive real radius solution for particular combinations of Kerr and NUT parameter values for KTN naked singularities. In such a case, accretion efficiency generally reaches 100% at a particular orbit of radius r=r0, and hence we choose r=r0 as the `ISCO' for practical purposes.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04233




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