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We consider the motion of classical spinning test particles in Schwarzschild and Kerr metrics and investigate innermost stable circular orbits (ISCO). The main goal of this work is to find analytically the small-spin corrections for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-25 Paul I. Jefremov , Oleg Yu. Tsupko , Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

The innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) offers a fundamental test of spacetime structure. However, its behavior in higher-dimensional black holes influenced by anisotropic energy-momentum tensors remains insufficiently explored. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Hocheol Lee , Bogeun Gwak

We study stability of a circular orbit of a spinning test particle in a Kerr spacetime. We find that some of the circular orbits become unstable in the direction perpendicular to the equatorial plane, although the orbits are still stable in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Shingo Suzuki , Kei-ichi Maeda

We study stable circular orbits in spherically symmetric AdS black holes in various dimensions and their limiting innermost stable circular orbits (ISCOs). We provide analytic expressions for their size, angular velocity and angular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 David Berenstein , Ziyi Li , Joan Simon

We determine the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of binary neutron stars (BNSs) by performing dynamical simulations in full general relativity. Evolving quasiequilibrium (QE) binaries that begin at different separations, we bracket…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Pedro Marronetti , Matthew D. Duez , Stuart L. Shapiro , Thomas W. Baumgarte

We study causal geodesics in the equatorial plane of the extremal Kerr-Taub-NUT spacetime, focusing on the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit (ISCO),and compare its behaviour with extant results for the ISCO in the extremal Kerr spacetime.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-13 Chandrachur Chakraborty

We investigate the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a test particle moving on the equatorial plane around rotating relativistic stars such as neutron stars. First, we derive approximate analytic formulas for the angular velocity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Masaru Shibata , Misao Sasaki

In this paper, we investigate the dynamical evolution of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) and light ring of a charged black hole during dynamical scalarization. This is achieved through nonlinear simulations within the framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 Yu-Peng Zhang , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

In this paper we study the effective gravitational potential of Schwarzschild, Kerr, Reissner-Nordstr\"om and Kerr-Newman black holes with the relativistic corrections to evaluate the circular orbits and the Innermost Stable Circular Orbits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Eahsaan Nazir Najar , Raja Nisar Ali , Yasmeena Mushtaq , Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat

In the spacetime of horizonless compact objects described by Einsteinian cubic gravity (ECG), we demonstrate the existence of static stable timelike circular orbits on which massive particles remain at rest relative to distant observers.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Zhen-Hua Zhao , Yong-Qiang Wang

We investigate the dynamics of charged particles in the spacetime of a global monopole swallowed by a Reissner-Nordstr\"om (RN) black hole in the presence of an external, weak, asymptotically homogeneous magnetic field. We carefully analyze…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-01 Hamza M. Haddad , M. Haluk Seçuk , Özgür Delice

We study the impact of a non-vanishing (positive) cosmological constant on the innermost and outermost stable circular orbits (ISCOs and OSCOs, respectively) within massive gravity in four dimensions. The gravitational field generated by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-04 Angel Rincon , Grigoris Panotopoulos , Ilidio Lopes , Norman Cruz

Newtonian point mass binaries can be brought into arbitrarily close circular orbits. Neutron stars and black holes, however, are extended, relativistic objects. Both finite size and relativistic effects make very close orbits unstable, so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas W. Baumgarte

The innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) delimits the transition from circular orbits to those that plunge into a black hole. In the test-mass limit, well-defined ISCO conditions exist for the Kerr and Schwarzschild spacetimes. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-25 Marc Favata

We study a marginally stable circular orbit (MSCO) such as the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a timelike geodesic in any spherically symmetric and static spacetime. It turns out that the metric components are separable from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-04 Toshiaki Ono , Tomohito Suzuki , Naomasa Fushimi , Kei Yamada , Hideki Asada

We study linear nonradial perturbations and stability of a marginal stable circular orbit (MSCO) such as the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a test particle in stationary axisymmetric spacetimes which possess a reflection symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 Toshiaki Ono , Tomohito Suzuki , Hideki Asada

In this paper we investigate the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a spinning test particle moving in the rotating Maxwell-dilaton black hole spacetime. By using the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations along with the Tulczyjew…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-03 Carlos Conde , Cristian Galvis , Eduard Larrañaga

We consider circular particle motion under the action of an unspecified force in a static spherically symmetric spacetime. We derive the machinery that allows one to find the force acting on a circular particle and deduce whether its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Hryhorii Ovcharenko , O. B. Zaslavskii

[abridged] Barack & Sago have recently computed the shift of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) due to the conservative self-force that arises from the finite-mass of an orbiting test-particle. This is one of the first concrete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-25 Marc Favata

This paper presents results for the innermost stable circular orbit in a Kerr-like spacetime. The metric employed is an approximation that combines the Kerr metric with the Erez-Rosen metric, expanded in a Taylor series. Consequently, this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-30 Fabián Chaverri-Miranda , Francisco Frutos-Alfaro , Diego Solano-Alfaro , Pedro Gómez-Ovares , André Oliva
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