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We study the motion of a test particle in a stationary, axially and reflection symmetric spacetime of a central compact object, as affected by interaction with a test radiation field of the same symmetries. Considering the radiation flux…

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We study the growth and saturation of the superradiant instability of a complex, massive vector (Proca) field as it extracts energy and angular momentum from a spinning black hole, using numerical solutions of the full Einstein-Proca…

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We analyze the influence of a massive photon in the dispersive interaction between two atoms in their fundamental states. We work in the context of Proca Quantum Electrodynamics. The photon mass not only introduces a new length scale but…

Light propagating through a perturbed spacetime could imprint the underlying gravitational waveform directly onto electromagnetic observables. In this Letter, we develop a covariant perturbative framework for polarized photon propagation in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Jiewei Huang , Yehui Hou , Zhen Zhong , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

If a pulsar orbits a supermassive black hole, the timing of pulses that pass close to the hole will show a variety of strong field effects. To compute the intensity and timing of pulses that have passed close to a nonrotating black hole we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Yan Wang , Frederick A. Jenet , Teviet Creighton , Richard H. Price

In this paper, we study the kinematic effects of spinning test particles orbiting the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson black hole. Employing with the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations, we explore the dynamics of precessing orbits and distinct…

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For twisted particles in arbitrary gravitational fields, the problems of the rotation of intrinsic orbital angular momentum and the orbital Hall effect are solved in the general case. We need not use the Maxwell equations in curved…

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This study investigates photon orbits around Kerr-MOG black holes. The equation of photon of motion around the Kerr-MOG black hole is derived by solving the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, expressed as a sixth-order polynomial involving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Shi-Yu Li , Song-Shan Luo , Zhong-Wen Feng

Within monochromatic optical fields, we demonstrate the rotating-wave structured light with wave vortex carrying an intrinsic transverse orbital angular momentum orthogonal to the propagation direction of light. Remarkably, we find that…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-21 Zhen-Lai Wang

The problem of anomalous diffusion in momentum space is considered for plasma-like systems on the basis of a new collision integral, which is appropriate for consideration of the probability transition function (PTF) with long tails in…

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We investigate the influence of plasma presence on relativistic images formed by Schwarzschild black hole lensing. When a gravitating body is surrounded by a plasma, the lensing angle depends on a frequency of the electromagnetic wave due…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oleg Yu. Tsupko , Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

Variability in active galactic nuclei is observed in ultraviolet to X-ray emission based light curves. This could be attributed to orbital signatures of the plasma that constitutes the accretion flow on the putative disk or in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Mangalam , P. Mohan

This article delves into the observational properties of a Schwarzschild-like black hole (BH). Initially, the research provides a succinct examination of the spacetime geometry and the configuration of its horizon. Furthermore, we study the…

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The presence of charge promotes the propensity of a rotating black hole to support the propagation of electromagnetic plane waves with negative phase velocity (NPV) in its ergosphere, whether the Kerr-Newman or the Kerr-Sen metric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-07 Benjamin M. Ross , Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

The turbulence induced decay of orbital angular momentum (OAM) entanglement between two photons is investigated numerically and experimentally. To compare our results with previous work, we simulate the turbulent atmosphere with a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Alpha Hamadou Ibrahim , Filippus S. Roux , Melanie McLaren , Thomas Konrad , Andrew Forbes

The properties of light rays around compact objects surrounded by a plasma are affected by both strong gravitational fields described by a general-relativistic spacetime and by a dispersive and refractive medium, characterized by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-22 Barbora Bezdekova , Volker Perlick , Jiri Bicak

We introduce a new class of nondiffracting optical pulses possessing orbital angular momentum. By generalizing the X-waves solution of the Maxwell equation, we discover the coupling between angular momentum and the temporal degrees of…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-09 Marco Ornigotti , Claudio Conti , Alexander Szameit

Motivated by electromagnetic-field confinement due to plasma near accreting black holes, we continue our exploration of the linear dynamics of an electromagnetic field propagating in curved spacetime in the presence of plasma by including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Enrico Cannizzaro , Andrea Caputo , Laura Sberna , Paolo Pani

When structured light is propagated through the atmosphere, turbulence results in modal scattering and distortions. An extensively studied example is that of light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), where the atmosphere is treated as…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-22 Asher Klug , Isaac Nape , Andrew Forbes

We discuss certain astrophysical implications of the photon mass. It offers a new mechanism of black hole magnetization, described as ``vortextrap magnetization" (VTM), which can generate a near-saturated magnetic field in astrophysical…

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