Equatorial Circular Motion of Charged Test Particles in a Weakly Magnetized Taub--NUT Background
Abstract
We study circular motion of charged test particles on the equatorial slice of a Taub--NUT black hole with Manko--Ruiz parameter , immersed in a weak external magnetic field introduced via Wald's prescription. Because the Taub--NUT metric is not reflection-symmetric about the equator once , generic charged orbits lie on cones rather than on the equatorial plane. We therefore analyse \emph{constrained} circular orbits obtained by imposing , and we exhibit in closed form the residual angular constraint that a fully self-consistent orbit would have to satisfy. Within this scope we derive the circularity and marginal-stability conditions and study how and shift the ISCO radius for prograde and retrograde branches. Increasing monotonically decreases ; the sign of the particle charge splits the two branches, with the ordering reversed between prograde and retrograde motion; and contributes only subleading corrections. The extension to self-consistent conical orbits is the natural direction for follow-up work.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.26395,
title = {Equatorial Circular Motion of Charged Test Particles in a Weakly Magnetized Taub--NUT Background},
author = {B. J. Bansawang and Tasrief Surungan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.26395},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
10 pages, 18 figures