Humpy LNRF-velocity profiles in accretion discs orbiting rapidly rotating Kerr black holes: a possible relation to epicyclic oscillations
Abstract
Coordinate-independent definition of the characteristic, so-called "humpy" frequency related to the positive gradient of the orbital velocity in locally non-rotating frames around nearly extreme Kerr black holes is given and compared with the epicyclic and orbital frequencies for both Keplerian thin discs and limiting marginally stable thick discs.
- Publication:
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Black Holes from Stars to Galaxies -- Across the Range of Masses
- Pub Date:
- April 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921307005947
- Bibcode:
- 2007IAUS..238..459S
- Keywords:
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- accretion disks;
- black hole physics;
- relativity;
- instabilities