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A general study of the stability of equatorial circular orbits in static axially symmetric gravitating systems is presented. Important circular geodesics as the marginally stable orbit, the marginally bounded orbit and the photon orbit are…

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Recently, ultracompact objects have been found to be susceptible to a new nonlinear instability, known as the light-ring instability, triggered by stable light rings. This discovery raises concerns about the viability of these objects as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-12 Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Yupeng Zhang

Relativistic Keplerian orbital frequency and related epicyclic frequencies play an important role in physics of accretion discs orbiting Kerr black holes and can by resonant or trapping effects explain quasiperiodic oscillations observed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriel Torok , Zdenek Stuchlik

A full-relativistic approach is used to compute the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO), the Keplerian, frame-dragging, precession and oscillation frequencies of the radial and vertical motions of neutral test particles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 Andres F. Gutierrez-Ruiz , Cesar A. Valenzuela-Toledo , Leonardo A. Pachon

This is the first of a series of papers investigating the oscillation properties of relativistic, non-selfgravitating tori orbiting around a black hole. In this initial paper we consider the axisymmetric oscillation modes of a torus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luciano Rezzolla , Shin'ichirou Yoshida , Olindo Zanotti

We investigate the stability of timelike Ricci curvature lower bounds under low-regularity limits of Lorentzian metrics. Specifically, we prove that the synthetic curvature-dimension condition $TCD^e_p(K,N)$, which provides an optimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Andrea Mondino , Vanessa Ryborz , Clemens Sämann

We construct dark energy stars with Chaplygin-type equation of state (EoS) in the presence of anisotropic pressure within the framework of Einstein gravity. From the classification established by Iyer et al. [Class. Quantum Grav. 2, 219…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Juan M. Z. Pretel

We explore strong gravity effects of the geodesic motion in the spacetime of rotating black holes in general relativity and braneworld gravity. We focus on the description of the motion in terms of three fundamental frequencies: The orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Alikram N. Aliev , Göksel Daylan Esmer , Pamir Talazan

Non-singular horizonless ultracompact objects provide a simple resolution to the black holes singularity problem. It has been shown that, if these objects are compact enough to exhibit the presence of the light-ring required to mimic the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Francesco Di Filippo

Rapidly rotating neutron stars can be unstable to the gravitational-wave-driven CFS mechanism if they have a neutral point in the spectrum of nonaxisymmetric f-modes. We investigate the frequencies of these modes in two sequences of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-16 Burkhard Zink , Oleg Korobkin , Erik Schnetter , Nikolaos Stergioulas

We discuss static, spherically symmetric solutions to the 5D Einstein-Maxwell equations (belonging to wide classes of multidimensional solutions known at least from the 1990s) and select among them those which must observationally look like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Kirill A. Bronnikov , Sergei V. Bolokhov , Milena V. Skvortsova

We study the existence of light rings (LR's) and timelike circular orbits (TCO's) in spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat wormhole geometries. We use a purely geometric approach based in the intrinsic curvatures of a $2$-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Boris Bermúdez-Cárdenas , Oscar Lasso Andino

In general relativity, the asymptotically flat space-time of a charged, spherically symmetric (non-rotating) body is described by the Reissner-Nordstr\"om metric. This metric corresponds to a naked singularity when the absolute value of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-29 Ruchi Mishra , Włodek Kluźniak

We study oscillations and instabilities of relativistic stars using perturbation theory in general relativity and take into account the contribution of a dynamic spacetime. We present the oscillation spectrum as well as the critical values…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 C. J. Krüger , K. D. Kokkotas

We report on numerical calculations of orbital and epicyclic frequencies in nearly circular orbits around rotating neutron stars and strange quark stars. The FPS equation of state was used to describe the neutron star structure while the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-24 Mateusz Wiśniewicz , Dorota Gondek-Rosińska , Włodzimierz Kluźniak , Nikolaos Stergioulas

This is the second of a series of papers investigating the oscillation properties of relativistic, non-selfgravitating tori orbiting around black holes. Extending the work done in a Schwarzschild background, we here consider the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pedro J. Montero , Luciano Rezzolla , Shin'ichirou Yoshida

At the dawn of a golden age for gravitational wave astronomy, we must leave no stone unturned in our quest for new phenomena beyond our current understanding of General Relativity (GR), particle physics and nuclear physics. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-15 Alfredo Urbano , Hardi Veermäe

We investigate the existence and stability of both the timelike and null circular orbits for a (2+1) dimensional charged BTZ black hole in Einstein-nonlinear Maxwell gravity with a negative cosmological constant. The stability analysis of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Shobhit Giri , Hemwati Nandan , Lokesh Kumar Joshi , Sunil D Maharaj

It has been argued that ultracompact objects, which possess light rings but no horizons, may be unstable against gravitational perturbations. To test this conjecture, we revisit the quasi-black hole solutions, a family of horizonless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-24 Minyong Guo , Zhen Zhong , Jinguang Wang , Sijie Gao

Nuclear rings at centers of barred galaxies exhibit strong star formation activities. They are thought to undergo gravitational instability when sufficiently massive. We approximate them as rigidly-rotating isothermal objects and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 Woong-Tae Kim , Sanghyuk Moon