Nonradial stability of marginal stable circular orbits in stationary axisymmetric spacetimes
Nonradial stability of marginal stable circular orbits in stationary axisymmetric spacetimes
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.94.064042
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发表时间:
2016-05
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5
通讯作者:
T. Ono;Tomohito Suzuki;H. Asada
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作者:
T. Ono;Tomohito Suzuki;H. Asada
We study linear nonradial perturbations and stability of a marginal stable circular orbit such as the innermost stable circular orbit of a test particle in stationary axisymmetric spacetimes which possess a reflection symmetry with respect to the equatorial plane. A zenithal stability criterion is obtained in terms of the metric components, the specific energy, and angular momentum of a test particle. The proposed approach is applied to the Kerr solution and Majumdar-Papapetrou solution to the Einstein equation. Moreover, we reexamine marginal stable circular orbits for a modified metric of a rapidly spinning black hole that has been recently proposed by Johannsen and Psaltis [Phys. Rev. D 83, 124015 (2011)]. We show that, for the Johannsen and Psaltis model, circular orbits that are stable against radial perturbations for some parameter region become unstable against zenithal perturbations. This suggests that the last circular orbit for this model may be larger than the innermost stable circular orbit.