Published March 3, 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

Whirling orbits around twirling black holes from conformal symmetry

  • 1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge,Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Department of Physics, UCSB,Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (United States)

Description

Dynamics in the throat of rapidly rotating Kerr black holes is governed by an emergent near-horizon conformal symmetry. The throat contains unstable circular orbits at radii extending from the ISCO down to the light ring. We show that they are related by conformal transformations to physical plunges and osculating trajectories. These orbits have angular momentum arbitrarily higher than that of ISCO. Using the conformal symmetry we compute analytically the radiation produced by the physical orbits. We also present a simple formula for the full self-force on such trajectories in terms of the self-force on circular orbits.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2017)014; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/19225

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2017
Journal Issue
03
Journal Page Range
p. 14
ISSN
1029-8479

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
49004184
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
BLACK HOLES; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; COSMOLOGY; KERR METRIC; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ORBITS; SPACE-TIME; SYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; METRICS

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Copyright
Copyright (c) OPEN ACCESS, © The Authors
Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP03(2017)014; ARXIV:1611.09834; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:19225
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)