scholarly journals Null and Timelike Geodesics near the Throats of Phantom Scalar Field Wormholes

Universe ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Ivan Potashov ◽  
Julia Tchemarina ◽  
Alexander Tsirulev

We study geodesic motion near the throats of asymptotically flat, static, spherically symmetric traversable wormholes supported by a self-gravitating minimally coupled phantom scalar field with an arbitrary self-interaction potential. We assume that any such wormhole possesses the reflection symmetry with respect to the throat, and consider only its observable “right half”. It turns out that the main features of bound orbits and photon trajectories close to the throats of such wormholes are very different from those near the horizons of black holes. We distinguish between wormholes of two types, the first and second ones, depending on whether the redshift metric function has a minimum or maximum at the throat. First, it turns out that orbits located near the centre of a wormhole of any type exhibit retrograde precession, that is, the angle of pericentre precession is negative. Second, in the case of high accretion activity, wormholes of the first type have the innermost stable circular orbit at the throat while those of the second type have the resting-state stable circular orbit in which test particles are at rest at all times. In our study, we have in mind the possibility that the strongly gravitating objects in the centres of galaxies are wormholes, which can be regarded as an alternative to black holes, and the scalar field can be regarded as a realistic model of dark matter surrounding galactic centres. In this connection, we discuss qualitatively some observational aspects of results obtained in this article.

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-241
Author(s):  
Ivan M. Potashov ◽  
Julia V. Tchemarina ◽  
Alexander N. Tsirulev

We study the geodesics motion of neutral test particles in the static spherically symmetric spacetimes of black holes and naked singularities supported by a selfgravitating real scalar field. The scalar field is supposed to model dark matter surrounding some strongly gravitating object such as the centre of our Galaxy. The behaviour of timelike and null geodesics very close to the centre of such a configuration crucially depends on the type of spacetime. It turns out that a scalar field black hole, analogously to a Schwarzschild black hole, has the innermost stable circular orbit and the (unstable) photon sphere, but their radii are always less than the corresponding ones for the Schwarzschild black hole of the same mass; moreover, these radii can be arbitrarily small. In contrast, a scalar field naked singularity has neither the innermost stable circular orbit nor the photon sphere. Instead, such a configuration has a spherical shell of test particles surrounding its origin and remaining in quasistatic equilibrium all the time. We also show that the characteristic properties of null geodesics near the centres of a scalar field naked singularity and a scalar field black hole of the same mass are qualitatively different.


2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-241
Author(s):  
Ivan M. Potashov ◽  
Julia V. Tchemarina ◽  
Alexander N. Tsirulev

We study the geodesics motion of neutral test particles in the static spherically symmetric spacetimes of black holes and naked singularities supported by a selfgravitating real scalar field. The scalar field is supposed to model dark matter surrounding some strongly gravitating object such as the centre of our Galaxy. The behaviour of timelike and null geodesics very close to the centre of such a configuration crucially depends on the type of spacetime. It turns out that a scalar field black hole, analogously to a Schwarzschild black hole, has the innermost stable circular orbit and the (unstable) photon sphere, but their radii are always less than the corresponding ones for the Schwarzschild black hole of the same mass; moreover, these radii can be arbitrarily small. In contrast, a scalar field naked singularity has neither the innermost stable circular orbit nor the photon sphere. Instead, such a configuration has a spherical shell of test particles surrounding its origin and remaining in quasistatic equilibrium all the time. We also show that the characteristic properties of null geodesics near the centres of a scalar field naked singularity and a scalar field black hole of the same mass are qualitatively different.


Author(s):  
Ivan M. Potashov ◽  
Julia V. Tchemarina ◽  
Alexander N. Tsirulev

We study the geodesics motion of neutral test particles in the static spherically symmetric spacetimes of black holes and naked singularities supported by a selfgravitating real scalar field. The scalar field is supposed to model dark matter surrounding some strongly gravitating object such as the centre of our Galaxy. The behaviour of timelike and null geodesics very close to the centre of such a configuration crucially depends on the type of spacetime. It turns out that a scalar field black hole, analogously to a Schwarzschild black hole, has the innermost stable circular orbit and the (unstable) photon sphere, but their radii are always less than the corresponding ones for the Schwarzschild black hole of the same mass; moreover, these radii can be arbitrarily small. In contrast, a scalar field naked singularity has neither the innermost stable circular orbit nor the photon sphere. Instead, such a configuration has a spherical shell of test particles surrounding its origin and remaining in quasistatic equilibrium all the time. We also show that the characteristic properties of null geodesics near the centres of a scalar field naked singularity and a scalar field black hole of the same mass are qualitatively different.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (22) ◽  
pp. 1950123
Author(s):  
Li-Li Shi ◽  
Jian-Ping Hu ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Chen Ma ◽  
Peng-Fei Duan

In this paper, we investigate the geodesic structure of Clifton–Barrow black hole space–time. Through the numerical analysis of the effective potential and the motion equation, the orbital types of test particles and photons and the corresponding orbital motion diagrams of each orbital types under certain conditions are obtained. We find that angular momentum [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] determine the existence of bound orbits and circular orbits. And we also find that the radius of unstable circular orbit decreases with increases in [Formula: see text] while the radius of stable circular orbit increases. Furthermore, as [Formula: see text] increases, the radius of unstable circular orbit increases, while the radius of stable circular orbit decreases. For null geodesic, parameters [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] do not affect the types of null orbits. The radius of the unstable circular orbits increases with the increase of [Formula: see text]. However, the radius of the unstable circular orbits remains unchanged as [Formula: see text] increases. Also, we show that the precession direction of the bound orbits of the test particles is counterclockwise for [Formula: see text], but clockwise with [Formula: see text]. Moreover, different energy values have an effect on the curvature of escape and absorb orbits curve.


2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 25-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. A. BRONNIKOV ◽  
M. S. CHERNAKOVA ◽  
J. C. FABRIS ◽  
N. PINTO-NETO ◽  
M. E. RODRIGUES

We study Einstein gravity minimally coupled to a scalar field in a static, spherically symmetric space–time in four dimensions. Black hole solutions are shown to exist for a phantom scalar field whose kinetic energy is negative. These "scalar black holes" have an infinite horizon area and zero Hawking temperature and are termed "cold black holes" (CBHs). The relevant explicit solutions are well known in the massless case (the so-called anti-Fisher solution), and we have found a particular example of a CBH with a nonzero potential V(ϕ). All CBHs with V(ϕ) ≢ 0 are shown to behave near the horizon, quite similarly to those with a massless field. The above solutions can be converted by a conformal transformation to Jordan frames of a general class of scalar–tensor theories of gravity, but CBH horizons in one frame are in many cases converted to singularities in the other, which gives rise to a new type of conformal continuation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
I.M. Potashov ◽  
Ju.V. Tchemarina ◽  
A.N. Tsirulev

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monimala Mondal ◽  
Farook Rahaman ◽  
Ksh. Newton Singh

AbstractGeodesic motion has significant characteristics of space-time. We calculate the principle Lyapunov exponent (LE), which is the inverse of the instability timescale associated with this geodesics and Kolmogorov–Senai (KS) entropy for our rotating Kerr–Kiselev (KK) black hole. We have investigate the existence of stable/unstable equatorial circular orbits via LE and KS entropy for time-like and null circular geodesics. We have shown that both LE and KS entropy can be written in terms of the radial equation of innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) for time-like circular orbit. Also, we computed the equation marginally bound circular orbit, which gives the radius (smallest real root) of marginally bound circular orbit (MBCO). We found that the null circular geodesics has larger angular frequency than time-like circular geodesics ($$Q_o > Q_{\sigma }$$ Q o > Q σ ). Thus, null-circular geodesics provides the fastest way to circulate KK black holes. Further, it is also to be noted that null circular geodesics has shortest orbital period $$(T_{photon}< T_{ISCO})$$ ( T photon < T ISCO ) among the all possible circular geodesics. Even null circular geodesics traverses fastest than any stable time-like circular geodesics other than the ISCO.


Author(s):  
Bo Gao ◽  
Xue-Mei Deng

The neutral time-like particle’s bound orbits around modified Hayward black holes have been investigated. We find that both in the marginally bound orbits (MBO) and the innermost stable circular orbits (ISCO), the test particle’s radius and its angular momentum are all more sensitive to one of the parameters [Formula: see text]. Especially, modified Hayward black holes with [Formula: see text] could mimic the same ISCO radius around the Kerr black hole with the spin parameter up to [Formula: see text]. Small [Formula: see text] could mimic the ISCO of small-spinning test particles around Schwarzschild black holes. Meanwhile, rational (periodic) orbits around modified Hayward black holes have also been studied. The epicyclic frequencies of the quasi-circular motion around modified Hayward black holes are calculated and discussed with respect to the observed Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) frequencies. Our results show that rational orbits around modified Hayward black holes have different values of the energy from the ones of Schwarzschild black holes. The epicyclic frequencies in modified Hayward black holes have different frequencies from Schwarzschild and Kerr ones. These might provide hints for distinguishing modified Hayward black holes from Schwarzschild and Kerr ones by using the dynamics of time-like particles around the strong gravitational field.


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