Volume 338 - High Energy Astrophysics in Southern Africa (HEASA2018) - HEASA 2018 Speakers
Accretion onto deformed black holes via pseudo–Newtonian potentials
A. John,* C. Stevens
*corresponding author
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Published on: 2019 July 29
Abstract
The Johannsen-Psaltis spacetime describes a rotating black hole with parametric deviations from the Kerr metric. By construction this spacetime explicitly violates the no-hair theorems. Rotating black hole solutions in any modified theory of gravity could be written in terms of the Johannsen-Psaltis metric. We examined the accretion of gas onto a black hole described by the static limit of this spacetime. We employed a potential that generalises the Paczynski-Wiita potential to the static Johannsen-Psaltis metric. Our analysis utilised a recent pseudo-Newtonian formulation of the dynamics around arbitrary static, spherically symmetric spacetimes. We found that positive (negative) values of the scalar hair parameter, $\epsilon_{3}$ increased (decreased) the accretion rate. This framework can be extended to incorporate various astrophysical phenomena like radiative processes, viscous dissipation and magnetic fields.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.338.0001
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