Particle on the innermost stable circular orbit of a rapidly spinning black hole

We compute the radiation emitted by a particle on the innermost stable circular orbit of a rapidly spinning black hole both (a) analytically, working to leading order in the deviation from extremality and (b) numerically, with a new high-precision Teukolsky code. We find excellent agreement between...

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Main Authors: Gralla, Samuel E., Porfyriadis, Achilleas P., Warburton, Niels J
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98858