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Analytic solutions for the motion of spinning particles near spherically symmetric black holes and exotic compact objects

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-09-10 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Rapidly rotating bodies moving in curved space-time experience the so-called spin-curvature force, which becomes important for the motion of compact objects in gravitational-wave inspirals. As a first approximation, this effect is captured in the motion of a spinning test particle. We solve the equations motion of a spinning particle to leading order in spin in arbitrary static and spherically symmetric space-times in terms of one-dimensional closed-form integrals. This solves the problem and proves its integrability in a wide range of modified gravities and near exotic compact objects. Then, by specializing to the case of bound orbits in Schwarzschild space-time, we demonstrate how to express the solution in the form of Jacobi elliptic functions.

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@article{arxiv.2308.00021,
  title  = {Analytic solutions for the motion of spinning particles near spherically symmetric black holes and exotic compact objects},
  author = {Vojtěch Witzany and Gabriel Andres Piovano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00021},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

The notebooks and machine-readable formulas can be found in the repo https://github.com/VojtechW/Analytical-Solution-Spinning-particle-Spherical