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Equatorial Circular Motion of Charged Test Particles in a Weakly Magnetized Taub--NUT Background

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-05-27 v1

Abstract

We study circular motion of charged test particles on the equatorial slice of a Taub--NUT black hole with Manko--Ruiz parameter CC, 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 l0l\neq 0, generic charged orbits lie on cones x=cosθ0x=\cos\theta\neq 0 rather than on the equatorial plane. We therefore analyse \emph{constrained} circular orbits obtained by imposing x=x˙=0x=\dot x=0, 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 BB and CC shift the ISCO radius for prograde and retrograde branches. Increasing BB monotonically decreases rISCOr_{\mathrm{ISCO}}; the sign of the particle charge splits the two branches, with the ordering reversed between prograde and retrograde motion; and CC contributes only subleading corrections. The extension to self-consistent conical orbits is the natural direction for follow-up work.

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@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}
}

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10 pages, 18 figures