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To investigate how chaos affects gravitational waves, we study the gravitational waves from a spinning test particle moving around a Kerr black hole, which is a typical chaotic system. To compare the result with those in non-chaotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Kenta Kiuchi , Kei-ichi Maeda

The rotation of asymmetric bodies in eccentric Keplerian orbits can be chaotic when there is some overlap of spin-orbit resonances. Here we show that the rotation of two coorbital bodies (two planets orbiting a star or two satellites of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-14 Philippe Robutel , A. C. M. Correia , Adrien Leleu

The occurrence of chaos for test particles moving around a slowly rotating black hole with a dipolar halo is studied using Poincar\'e sections. We find a novel effect, particles with angular momentum opposite to the black hole rotation have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 P. S. Letelier , W. M. Vieira

The observational data from some black hole candidates suggest the importance of electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of a black hole. Highly magnetized disk accretion may play an importance rule, and large scale magnetic field may be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Masaaki Takahashi , Hiroko Koyama

We describe and characterize rigorously the chaotic behavior of the sine-Gordon equation. The existence of invariant manifolds and the persistence of homoclinic orbits for a perturbed sine--Gordon equation are established. We apply a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Vassilios M. Rothos

While the motion of particles near a rotating, electrically-neutral (Kerr), and charged (Kerr--Newman) black hole is always strictly regular, a perturbation in the gravitational or the electromagnetic field generally leads to chaos. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-28 O. Kopáček , V. Karas

Galactic centres are highly dynamic regions dominated by a supermassive black hole (BH) surrounded by nuclear star clusters (NSC), molecular gas, and asymmetric matter distributions such as disks or halos. The combined gravitational effects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Ushasee Paria , Uditi Nag , Yeasin Ali , Suparna Roychowdhury

We investigate the (conservative) dynamics of binary black holes using the Hamiltonian formulation of the post-Newtonian (PN) equations of motion. The Hamiltonian we use includes spin-orbit coupling, spin-spin coupling, and mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Michael D. Hartl , Alessandra Buonanno

Studies of dynamical stability (chaotic versus regular motion) in galactic dynamics often rely on static analytical models of the total gravitational potential. Potentials based upon self-consistent N-body simulations offer more realistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-08 Rubens E. G. Machado , T. Manos

Small bodies of the Solar system, like asteroids, trans-Neptunian objects, cometary nuclei, planetary satellites, with diameters smaller than one thousand kilometers usually have irregular shapes, often resembling dumb-bells, or contact…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-26 José Lages , Dima L. Shepelyansky , Ivan I. Shevchenko

We consider test particle motion in a gravitational field generated by a homogeneous circular ring placed in $n$-dimensional Euclidean space. We observe that there exist no stable stationary orbits in $n=6, 7, \ldots, 10$ but exist in $n=3,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-18 Takahisa Igata

Cosmic black holes can act as agents of particle acceleration. We study properties of a system consisting of a rotating black hole immersed in a large-scale organized magnetic field. Electrically charged particles in the immediate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-21 Ondřej Kopáček

The Kerr-MOG black hole has recently attracted significant research attention and has been extensively applied in various fields. To accurately characterize the long-term dynamical evolution of charged particles around Kerr-MOG black hole,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Zhen-Meng Xu , Da-Zhu Ma , Wen-Fu Cao , Kai Li

We study the onset of chaos due to temporal and spatially periodic perturbations in charged Gauss-Bonnet AdS black holes in extended thermodynamic phase space, by analyzing the zeros of the appropriate Melnikov functions. Temporal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-25 Sandip Mahish , Chandrasekhar Bhamidipati

Chaotic motion near black holes has recently been examined through the lens of the Maldacena-Shenker-Stanford (MSS) chaos-bound, but reported violations remain contradictory. A significant source of ambiguity stems from treating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-13 Terkaa Victor Targema , Kazuharu Bamba , Riasat Ali , Usman Zafar

We numerically study quantum chaos properties of long-range XXZ dipolar Hamiltonian spin systems. Two geometries are considered: (i) an open chain with 19 spins, (ii) a face-centered cubic lattice with 14 spins. Energy level-spacing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Dhrubo Jyoti

We consider the motion of a particle subjected to the constant gravitational field and scattered inelasticaly by hard boundaries which possess the shape of parabola, wedge, and hyperbola. The billiard itself performs oscillations. The…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Z. Gorski , T. Srokowski

Based on the Melnikov method, we investigate chaotic behaviors in the extended thermodynamic phase space for a slowly rotating Kerr-AdS black hole under temporal and spatial perturbations. Our results show that the temporal perturbation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-08 Bing Tang

The Johannsen-Psaltis spacetime is a perturbation of the Kerr spacetime designed to avoid pathologies like naked singularities and closed timelike curves. This spacetime depends not only on the mass and the spin of the compact object, but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-09 Ondřej Zelenka , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

We analyse the massless particles orbiting a spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat black hole with a radius equal to the photon sphere and a circular geodesic. Asymptotic observers record the orbital period of the null circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-24 Yuxuan Shi