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The study of circular orbits offers profound insights into the structure of spacetime around black holes. While the topological properties of these orbits are well-established for neutral particles, the influence of electric…

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Ultra-compact objects describe horizonless solutions of the Einstein field equations which, like black-hole spacetimes, possess null circular geodesics (closed light rings). We study {\it analytically} the physical properties of spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-21 Shahar Hod

Geodesic equations of the vacuum C-metric are derived and solved for various cases. The solutions describe the motion of timelike or null particles with conserved energy and angular momentum. Polar, nearly-circular orbits around weakly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-13 Yen-Kheng Lim

We present analytical solutions of the geodesic equations of test particles and light in the five dimensional singly spinning black ring spacetime for special cases, since it does not appear possible to separate the Hamilton-Jacobi-equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-05 Saskia Grunau , Valeria Kagramanova , Jutta Kunz , Claus Lämmerzahl

We consider the projection of null geodesics of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini metric in n+1 dimensions to the space of orbits of the static Killing vector where the motion of a given light ray is seen to lie in a plane. The projected curves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Stephen Casey

Black-hole spacetimes with a "photonsphere", a hypersurface on which massless particles can orbit the black hole on circular null geodesics, are studied. We prove that among all possible trajectories (both geodesic and non-geodesic) which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Shahar Hod

Oscillatons are spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein Klein Gordon (EKG) equations for soliton stars made of real time dependent scalar fields. These equations are non singular and satisfy flatness conditions asymptotically with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Ali. Mahmoodzadeh , B. Malakolkalami

The starting point of this work is the principle that all movement of particles and photons must follow geodesics of a 4-dimensional space where time intervals are always a measure on geodesic arc lengths. The last 3 coordinates (alpha =…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose B. Almeida

This work deals with the analysis of cylindrically symmetric and stationary space-times $\mathcal{C}_{t}$ with closed timelike curves. The equation of motion describing the evolution of a massive scalar field in a $\mathcal{C}_{t}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-26 A. B. Pavan

Topology is a promising approach toward to the light ring in a generic black hole background, and equatorial timelike circular orbit in a stationary black hole background. In this paper, we consider the distinct topological configurations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-27 Xu Ye , Shao-Wen Wei

In this manuscript, we present an alternative method for calculating null geodesics in General Static Isotropic Metrics in General Relativity and Extended Theories of Gravity. By applying a conformal transformation, we are able to consider…

Null and timelike equatorial orbits are investigated in a family of hairy black holes in the cubic Galileon theory. These include rotating generalizations of static black hole metrics supporting a time-dependent scalar field. Depending on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Karim Van Aelst , Eric Gourgoulhon , Frederic H. Vincent

Unique features of particle orbits produce novel signatures of gravitational observable phenomena, and are quite useful in testing compact astrophysical objects in general relativity or modified theories of gravity. Here we observe a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-24 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Peng Zhang , Yu-Xiao Liu , Robert B. Mann

In this article we study the geodesic motion of test particles and light in the five-dimensional (rotating) black string spacetime. If a compact dimension is added to the four-dimensional Schwarzschild or Kerr spacetime, the new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-20 Saskia Grunau , Bhavesh Khamesra

Using minimalist assumptions we develop a natural functional decomposition for the spacetime metric, and explicit tractable formulae for the surface gravities, in arbitrary stationary circular (PT symmetric) axisymmetric spacetimes. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Joshua Baines , Matt Visser

Properties of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black-hole and naked-singularity spacetimes with a nonzero cosmological constant are represented by their geodetical structure and embedding diagrams of the central planes of both the ordinary geometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-03-19 Zdeněk Stuchlík , Stanislav Hledík

Tidal perturbations play an important role in the study of the dynamics in the classical two-body system. Understanding tidal effects in strong-field regions may allow one to use gravitational-wave or electromagnetic observations to locate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-14 Vitor Cardoso , Arianna Foschi

Timelike geodesics on a hyperplane orthogonal to the symmetry axis of the G\"odel spacetime appear to be elliptic-like if standard coordinates naturally adapted to the cylindrical symmetry are used. The orbit can then be suitably described…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-27 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Robert T. Jantzen , Wolfango Plastino

The deep connection between black hole thermodynamics and spacetime geometry remains a central focus of general relativity. While recent studies have revealed a precise correspondence for null orbits, given by $K = -\lambda^2$ between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-23 Shi-Hao Zhang , Zi-Yuan Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The geodesics of the rotating extreme black hole in five spacetime dimensions found by Breckenridge, Myers, Peet and Vafa are Liouville integrable and may be integrated by additively separating the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. This allows us…

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