Trajectory of test particle around a slowly rotating relativistic star emitting isotropic radiation

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2010-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/1003.3077v2

Phys.Rev.D81:084005,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

23 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D.

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.81.084005

We explored the motion of test particles near slowly rotating relativistic star having a uniform luminosity. In order to derive the test particle's equations of motion, we made use of the radiation stress-energy tensor first constructed by Miller and Lamb \cite{ML96}. From the particle's trajectory obtained through the numerical integration of the equations of motion, it is found that for sufficiently high luminosity, "suspension orbit" exists, where the test particle hovers around at uniform angular velocity in the same direction as the star's spin. Interestingly, it turned out that the radial position of the "suspension orbit" was determined by the luminosity and the angular momentum of the star alone and was independent of the initial positions and the specific angular momentum of the particle. Also found is that there exist not only the radiation drag but also "radiation counter-drag" which depends on the stellar radius and the angular momentum and it is this radiation counter-drag that makes the test particle in the "suspension orbit" to hover around at uniform angular velocity which is greater than that induced by the Lense-Thirring effect (i.e., general relativistic dragging of inertial frame).

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