273 research outputs found
Spinning particles in Schwarzschild-de Sitter space-time
After considering the reference case of the motion of spinning test bodies in
the equatorial plane of the Schwarzschild space-time, we generalize the results
to the case of the motion of a spinning particle in the equatorial plane of the
Schwarzschild-de Sitter space-time. Specifically, we obtain the loci of turning
points of the particle in this plane. We show that the cosmological constant
affect the particle motion when the particle distance from the black hole is of
the order of the inverse square root of the cosmological constant.Comment: 8 pages, 5 eps figures, submitted to Gen.Rel.Gra
A causal Schwarzschild-de Sitter interior solution by gravitational decoupling
We employ the minimal geometric deformation approach to gravitational
decoupling (MGD- decoupling) in order to build an exact anisotropic version of
the Schwarzschild interior solution in a space-time with cosmological constant.
Contrary to the well-known Schwarzschild interior, the matter density in the
new solution is not uniform and possesses subluminal sound speed. It therefore
satisfies all standard physical requirements for a candidate astrophysical
object.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figure
Energy exchange between relativistic fluids: the polytropic case
We present a simple, analytic and straightforward method to elucidate the
effects produced by polytropic fluids on any other gravitational source, no
matter its nature, for static and spherically symmetric spacetimes. As a direct
application, we study the interaction between polytropes and perfect fluids
coexisting inside a self-gravitating stellar objectComment: 10 pages, 12 figure
The NASA Wallops Arc-Second Pointer (WASP) System for Precision Pointing of Scientific Balloon Instruments and Telescopes
The National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA) Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), part of the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), has developed a unique pointing control system for instruments aboard scientific balloon gondolas. The ability to point large telescopes and instruments with arc-second accuracy and stability is highly desired by multiple scientific disciplines, such as Planetary, Earth Science, Heliospheric and Astrophysics, and the availability of a standardized system supplied by NASA alleviates the need for the science user to develop and provide their own system. In addition to the pointing control system, a star tracker has been developed with both daytime and nighttime capability to augment the WASP and provide an absolute pointing reference. The WASP Project has successfully completed five test flights and one operational science mission, and is currently supporting an additional test flight in 2017, along with three science missions with flights scheduled between 2018 and 2020. The WASP system has demonstrated precision pointing and high reliability, and is available to support scientific balloon missions
Circular motion of neutral test particles in Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime
We investigate the motion of neutral test particles in the gravitational
field of a mass with charge described by the Reissner-Nordstr\"om (RN)
spacetime. We focus on the study of circular stable and unstable orbits around
configurations describing either black holes or naked singularities. We show
that at the classical radius, defined as , there exist orbits with zero
angular momentum due to the presence of repulsive gravity. The analysis of the
stability of circular orbits indicates that black holes are characterized by a
continuous region of stability. In the case of naked singularities, the region
of stability can split into two non-connected regions inside which test
particles move along stable circular orbits.Comment: 23 pages, 22 figures. To be published Phys. Rev.
Isotropization and change of complexity by gravitational decoupling
We employ the gravitational decoupling appro- ach for static and spherically symmetric systems to develop a simple and powerful method in order to (a) continuously isotropize any anisotropic solution of the Einstein field equa- tions, and (b) generate new solutions for self-gravitating dis- tributions with the same or vanishing complexity factor. A few working examples are given for illustrative purposes
Electromagnetic Properties of Kerr-Anti-de Sitter Black Holes
We examine the electromagnetic properties of Kerr-anti-de Sitter (Kerr-AdS)
black holes in four and higher spacetime dimensions. Assuming that the black
holes may carry a test electric charge we show that the Killing one-form which
represents the difference between the timelike generators in the spacetime and
in the reference background can be used as a potential one-form for the
associated electromagnetic field. In four dimensions the potential one-form and
the Kerr-AdS metric with properly re-scaled mass parameter solve the
Einstein-Maxwell equations, thereby resulting in the familiar Kerr-Newman-AdS
solution. We solve the quartic equation governing the location of the event
horizons of the Kerr-Newman-AdS black holes and present closed analytic
expressions for the radii of the horizons. We also compute the gyromagnetic
ratio for these black holes and show that it corresponds to g=2 just as for
ordinary black holes in asymptotically flat spacetime. Next, we compute the
gyromagnetic ratio for the Kerr-AdS black holes with a single angular momentum
and with a test electric charge in all higher dimensions. The gyromagnetic
ratio crucially depends on the dimensionless ratio of the rotation parameter to
the curvature radius of the AdS background. At the critical limit, when the
boundary Einstein universe is rotating at the speed of light, it tends to g=2
irrespective of the spacetime dimension. Finally, we consider the case of a
five dimensional Kerr-AdS black hole with two angular momenta and show that it
possesses two distinct gyromagnetic ratios in accordance with its two
orthogonal 2-planes of rotation. In the special case of two equal angular
momenta, the two gyromagnetic ratios merge into one leading to g=4 at the
maximum angular velocities of rotation.Comment: Typos corrected; 31 pages, REVTe
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