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Motion of particles and photons in the gravitational field of a rotating body (In memory of Vladimir Afanas'evich Ruban)

© 1986 American Institute of Physics
, , Citation I G Dymnikova 1986 Sov. Phys. Usp. 29 215 DOI 10.1070/PU1986v029n03ABEH003178

0038-5670/29/3/215

Abstract

A study is made of the trajectories of free motion of test particles and photons in the Kerr metric, which describes the gravitational field of a rotating massive body. The trajectories are classified on the basis of the integrals of the motion, which have a clear physical meaning. The cases of a strong gravitational field in the neighborhood of a rotating black hole as well as the weak-field approximation describing the motion of particles in the gravitational field of a rotating star or galaxy are considered. The review includes bound states (orbits) in the field of a rotating mass, scattering and gravitational capture of particles and photons by a rotating black hole, trajectories of falling into a black hole, and the bending of light rays and the gravitational time delay of signals in the gravitational field of a rotating body.

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10.1070/PU1986v029n03ABEH003178