Published September 7, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Non-monotonic Keplerian velocity profiles around near-extreme braneworld Kerr black holes

  • 1. Institute of Physics, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University, Bezrucovo nam. 13, CZ-746 01 Opava (Czech Republic)

Description

We study the non-monotonic Keplerian velocity profiles related to locally non-rotating frames (LNRF) in the field of near-extreme braneworld Kerr black holes and naked singularities in which the non-local gravitational effects of the bulk are represented by a braneworld tidal charge b and the 4D geometry of the spacetime structure is governed by the Kerr-Newman geometry. We show that positive tidal charge has a tendency to restrict the values of the black hole dimensionless spin a admitting the existence of the non-monotonic Keplerian LNRF-velocity profiles; the non-monotonic profiles exist in the black hole spacetimes with tidal charge smaller than b = 0.410 05 (and spin larger than a = 0.768 08). With decreasing value of the tidal charge (which need not be only positive), both the region of spin allowing the non-monotonicity in the LNRF-velocity profile around braneworld Kerr black hole and the velocity difference in the minimum-maximum parts of the velocity profile increase implying growing astrophysical relevance of this phenomenon.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/28/17/175002

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/28/17/175002;
PII
S0264-9381(11)91935-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
28
Journal Issue
17
Journal Page Range
[18 p.]
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43028928
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ASTROPHYSICS; BLACK HOLES; BRANES; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; KERR FIELD; M-THEORY; SINGULARITY; SPACE-TIME; SPIN; VELOCITY
Descriptors DEC
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PHYSICS