Effects of a positive cosmological constant on circular orbits in the Reissner-Nordström, Schwarzschild, and Kerr fields.
Abstract
Criteria for the existence and stability of circular orbits in a general stationary axisymmetric field are established using the equation of geodesic deviation. Circular orbits in the ReissnerNordström, Schwarzschild and Kerr fields, all with a positive cosmological constant “Λ” included, are considered and the effects of “Λ” are detailed.
- Publication:
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General Relativity and Gravitation
- Pub Date:
- September 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00764269
- Bibcode:
- 1981GReGr..13..829H
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics;
- Circular Orbits;
- Cosmology;
- Field Theory (Physics);
- Particle Motion;
- Kerr Effects;
- Reissner-Nordstrom Solution;
- Schwarzschild Metric;
- Astrophysics;
- Cosmological Models