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Radiation drag in the field of a non-spherical source (Articolo in rivista)
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- Radiation drag in the field of a non-spherical source (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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- 2014-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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- 10.1093/mnras/stu2082 (literal)
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- Bini D., Geralico A. , Passamonti A. (literal)
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- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo \"M. Picone,\" CNR, I-00185 Rome, Italy
INFN, Sezione di Napoli, I-80126 Naples, Italy
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via Frascati 44, I-00040, Monteporzio Catone (Roma), Italy (literal)
- Titolo
- Radiation drag in the field of a non-spherical source (literal)
- Abstract
- The motion of a test particle in the gravitational field of a non-spherical source endowed
with both mass and mass quadrupole moment is investigated when a test
radiation field is also present. The background is described by the Erez-Rosen solution,
which is a static spacetime belonging to the Weyl class of solutions to the
vacuum Einstein's field equations, and reduces to the familiar Schwarzschild solution
when the quadrupole parameter vanishes. The radiation flux has a fixed but arbitrary
(non-zero) angular momentum. The interaction with the radiation field is assumed
to be Thomson-like, i.e., the particles absorb and re-emit radiation, thus suffering for
a friction-like drag force. Such an additional force is responsible for the PoyntingRobertson
effect, which is well established in the framework of Newtonian gravity and
has been recently extended to the general theory of relativity. The balance between
gravitational attraction, centrifugal force and radiation drag leads to the occurrence
of equilibrium circular orbits which are attractors for the surrounding matter for every
fixed value of the interaction strength. The presence of the quadrupolar structure
of the source introduces a further degree of freedom: there exists a whole family of
equilibrium orbits parametrized by the quadrupole parameter, generalizing previous
works. This scenario is expected to play a role in the context of accretion matter
around compact objects. (literal)
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