Innermost stable circular orbit of a spinning particle in Kerr spacetime

Shingo Suzuki and Kei-ichi Maeda
Phys. Rev. D 58, 023005 – Published 25 June 1998
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Abstract

We study the stability of circular orbits of spinning test particles in Kerr spacetime. We find that some of the circular orbits become unstable in the direction perpendicular to the equatorial plane, although the orbits are still stable in the radial direction. For the large spin case [S/μMO(1)], the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) appears before the minimum of the effective potential in the equatorial plane disappears. This changes the radius of the ISCO and therefore the frequency of the last circular orbit.

  • Received 29 December 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.023005

©1998 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Shingo Suzuki* and Kei-ichi Maeda

  • Department of Physics, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169, Japan

  • *Electronic address: shingo@gravity.phys.waseda.ac.jp
  • Electronic address: maeda@mse.waseda.ac.jp

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Vol. 58, Iss. 2 — 15 July 1998

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