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Geodesic motion in the vacuum C metric

Yen-Kheng Lim*

  • Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117551, Singapore

  • *phylyk@nus.edu.sg
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Phys. Rev. D 89, 104016 – Published 8 May, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.104016

Abstract

Geodesic equations of the vacuum C metric are derived and solved for various cases. The solutions describe the motion of timelike or null particles with conserved energy and angular momentum. Polar, nearly circular orbits around weakly accelerated black holes may be regarded as a perturbation of circular Schwarzschild geodesics. Results indicate that circular Schwarzschild geodesics of radius r0>6m are stable under small uniform accelerations along the orbital plane. These stable orbits undergo small oscillations around r0, behaving like a harmonic oscillator driven by a periodic force plus another constant force. Circular orbits with axis parallel to the direction of black hole acceleration are also considered. In this case an algebraic relation expressing the condition of stability is obtained. This refines the stability analysis done in previous literature. We also present an analysis of radial geodesics along the poles. There exist a solution where a particle remains at unstable equilibrium at a fixed distance directly behind the accelerating black hole. Examples of numerical solutions are presented for other more general cases.

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Phys. Rev. D 89, 104016– Published 8 May, 2014
  • Received 25 March 2014

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