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Contour plot of the Kretchmann scalar tanh(σ −4 R αβγδ R αβγδ ) in the (ρ, z) plane for p = 1/3. The centre of the flower-shaped region is the ring singularity.
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We analyze the $\delta=2$ Tomimatsu-Sato spacetime in the context of the
proposed Kerr/CFT correspondence. This 4-dimensional vacuum spacetime is
asymptotically flat and has a well-defined ADM mass and angular momentum, but
also involves several exotic features including a naked ring singularity, and
two disjoint Killing horizons separated by a reg...
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Recently double black hole vacuum and electrovacuum metrics attracted attention as exact solutions suitable for visualization of ultra-compact objects beyond the Kerr paradigm. However, many of the proposed systems are plagued with ring curvature singularities. Here we present a new simple solution of this type which is asymptotically Kerr, has zero electric and magnetic charges, but is endowed with magnetic dipole moment and electric quadrupole moment. It is manifestly free of ring singularities, and contains only a mild string-like singularity on the axis corresponding to a distributional energy-momentum tensor. Its main constituents are two extreme co-rotating black holes carrying equal electric and opposite magnetic and NUT charges.
We study the extremal rotating spacetimes with a NUT twist in the context of recently proposed Kerr/CFT correspondence. The Kerr/CFT correspondence states that the near-horizon states of an extremal four (or higher) dimensional black hole could be identified with a certain chiral conformal field theory. The corresponding Virasoro algebra is generated with a class of diffeomorphism which preserves an appropriate boundary condition on the near-horizon geometry. We combine the calculated central charges with the expected form of the temperature, using the Cardy formula to obtain the microscopically entropy of the extremal rotating spacetimes with a NUT twist. All results are in agreement with the macroscopic entropy of the extremal spacetimes.
We model the spacetime of low-mass X-ray binaries with the Tomimatsu-Sato
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epicyclic frequencies. The numerical analysis shows that the properties of the
characteristic frequencies of oscillation do not differ qualitatively from
those of the Kerr black hole. Estimates for the angular momenta of the three
stellar mass black hole candidates GRO 1655-40, XTE 1550-564 and GRS 1915+105
are made with the application of the nonlinear resonance model. We find
agreement between the predictions based on the 3 : 2 nonlinear resonance model
for a TS2 background and the current estimates found in the literature.
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The physical properties of the Tomimatsu-Sato delta=2 spacetime are analyzed,
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analysis it is proved analytically that the Kerr spacetime with negative mass
always has a massless naked ring singularity off the symmetry axis accompanied
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We study the hidden conformal symmetry of four-dimensional extremal
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symmetry enables us to obtain the conjugate charges for the CFT side. The
real-time correlators are also found to agree with the CFT expectations.
The extremal Kerr black hole with the angular momentum J is conjectured to be
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is non-zero, but still the order of near extremal parameter. Redefining the
algebras to take the standard form, we obtain a finite value as expected by the
Kerr/CFT correspondence.
