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Relativistic hydrodynamics around black holes and horizon adapted coordinate systems

Philippos Papadopoulos and José A. Font

  • Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Schlaatzweg 1, D-14473, Potsdam, Germany

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Phys. Rev. D 58, 024005 – Published 9 June, 1998

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.024005

Abstract

Despite the fact that the Schwarzschild and Kerr solutions for the Einstein equations, when written in standard Schwarzschild and Boyer-Lindquist coordinates, present coordinate singularities, all numerical studies of accretion flows onto collapsed objects have been widely using them over the years. This approach introduces conceptual and practical complications in places where a smooth solution should be guaranteed, i.e., at the gravitational radius. In the present paper, we propose an alternative way of solving the general relativistic hydrodynamic equations in background (fixed) black hole spacetimes. We identify classes of coordinates in which the (possibly rotating) black hole metric is free of coordinate singularities at the horizon, independent of time, and admits a spacelike decomposition. In the spherically symmetric, non-rotating case, we re-derive exact solutions for dust and perfect fluid accretion in Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates, and compare them with numerical hydrodynamic integrations. We perform representative axisymmetric computations. These demonstrations suggest that the use of those coordinate systems carries significant improvements over the standard approach, especially for higher dimensional studies.

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Phys. Rev. D 58, 024005– Published 9 June, 1998
  • Received 26 January 1998

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