Interior structure of rotating black holes. III. Charged black holes

Andrew J. S. Hamilton
Phys. Rev. D 84, 124057 – Published 28 December 2011

Abstract

This paper extends to the case of charged rotating black holes the conformally stationary, axisymmetric, conformally separable solutions presented for uncharged rotating black holes in a companion paper. In the present paper, the collisionless fluid accreted by the black hole may be charged. The charge of the black hole is determined self-consistently by the charge accretion rate. As in the uncharged case, hyper-relativistic counterstreaming between ingoing and outgoing streams drives inflation at (just above) the inner horizon, followed by collapse. If both ingoing and outgoing streams are charged, then conformal separability holds during early inflation, but fails as inflation develops. If conformal separability is imposed throughout inflation and collapse, then only one of the ingoing and outgoing streams can be charged: the other must be neutral. Conformal separability prescribes a hierarchy of boundary conditions on the ingoing and outgoing streams incident on the inner horizon. The dominant radial boundary conditions require that the incident ingoing and outgoing number densities be uniform with latitude, but the charge per particle must vary with latitude such that the incident charge densities vary in proportion to the radial electric field. The subdominant angular boundary conditions require specific forms of the incident number- and charge-weighted angular motions. If the streams fall freely from outside the horizon, then the prescribed angular conditions can be achieved by the charged stream, but not by the neutral stream. Thus, as in the case of an uncharged black hole, the neutral stream must be considered to be delivered ad hoc to just above the inner horizon.

  • Received 6 April 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.124057

© 2011 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Andrew J. S. Hamilton*

  • JILA and Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, Box 440, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA

  • *Andrew.Hamilton@colorado.edu

See Also

Interior structure of rotating black holes. I. Concise derivation

Andrew J. S. Hamilton and Gavin Polhemus
Phys. Rev. D 84, 124055 (2011)

Interior structure of rotating black holes. II. Uncharged black holes

Andrew J. S. Hamilton
Phys. Rev. D 84, 124056 (2011)

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Vol. 84, Iss. 12 — 15 December 2011

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