Circular geodesics of naked singularities in the Kehagias-Sfetsos metric of Hořava's gravity
Abstract
We discuss photon and test-particle orbits in the Kehagias-Sfetsos (KS) metric of Hořava's gravity. For any value of the Hořava parameter ω, there are values of the gravitational mass M for which the metric describes a naked singularity, and this is always accompanied by a vacuum "antigravity sphere" on whose surface a test particle can remain at rest (in a zero angular momentum geodesic), and inside which no circular geodesics exist. The observational appearance of an accreting KS naked singularity in a binary system would be that of a quasistatic spherical fluid shell surrounded by an accretion disk, whose properties depend on the value of M, but are always very different from accretion disks familiar from the Kerr-metric solutions. The properties of the corresponding circular orbits are qualitatively similar to those of the Reissner-Nordström naked singularities. When event horizons are present, the orbits outside the Kehagias-Sfetsos black hole are qualitatively similar to those of the Schwarzschild metric.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- July 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.024035
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1311.5820
- Bibcode:
- 2014PhRvD..90b4035V
- Keywords:
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- 04.50.Kd;
- 04.70.Bw;
- 04.40.Dg;
- 95.10.Eg;
- Modified theories of gravity;
- Classical black holes;
- Relativistic stars: structure stability and oscillations;
- Orbit determination and improvement;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 9 figures