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Exact relativistic viscous fluid solutions in near horizon extremal Kerr background

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2009-09-15 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Realistic accretion disk models require a number of ingredients, including viscous fluids, electromagnetic fields and general relativistic corrections. Close to the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) the latter can be appreciable and (quasi-)Newtonian approximations become unreliable. This is particularly true for nearly extremal black holes like GRS 1915+105, where the ISCO almost coincides with the black hole horizon. To describe the physics close to the ISCO adequately in a simplified model we approximate the nearly extremal Kerr geometry by the near-horizon extremal Kerr geometry and construct in this background relativistic viscous fluid solutions with electromagnetic fields. We discuss some applications of our solutions and possible relations to the Kerr/CFT correspondence.

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@article{arxiv.0909.2041,
  title  = {Exact relativistic viscous fluid solutions in near horizon extremal Kerr background},
  author = {Daniel Grumiller and Ana-Maria Piso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.2041},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure