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Polynomial approximation of the Lense-Thirring rigid precession frequency

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-02-28 v1

Abstract

We propose a polynomial approximation of the global Lense-Thirring rigid precession frequency to study low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations around spinning black holes. This high-performing approximation allows to determine the expected frequencies of a precessing thick accretion disc with fixed inner radius and variable outer radius around a black hole with given mass and spin. We discuss the accuracy and the applicability regions of our polynomial approximation, showing that the computational times are reduced by a factor of 70\approx70 in the range of minutes.

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@article{arxiv.1802.02866,
  title  = {Polynomial approximation of the Lense-Thirring rigid precession frequency},
  author = {Vittorio De Falco and Sara Motta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.02866},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages, 6 figures

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