Quasi-local measurements and orientation in black-hole fields

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Aug 1997

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Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 14, Issue 8, pp. 2381-2392 (1997).

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An observer travelling in the Kerr - Newman field can deduce the parameters of the host spacetime and those of his orbit from quasi-local measurements only. A way to achieve this result is first to set oneself into the orbit of an equatorial canonical (Carter) observer, and then measure (i) the electric and magnetic fields, (ii) the linear velocities of the equatorial circular geodesics at a given radius (and possibly also those of geodesics which are purely latitudinal locally), (iii) one's thrust, (iv) the angular frequency of the `Pharaoh's fan' and (v) the angular velocity of precession of comoving gyroscopes. We show that the local experiments which are necessary to acquire all the desired information can be performed in a general Kerr - Newman background and also in the special cases of Kerr, Reissner - Nordström and Schwarzschild spacetimes. We point out a close connection between the behaviour of one of the observer's devices - the `Pharaoh's fan' - and the Wilkins effect.

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