A note on circular geodesics in the equatorial plane of an extreme Kerr-Newman black hole [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01973


We examine the behaviour of circular geodesics describing orbits of neutral test particles around an extreme Kerr-Newman black hole. It is well known that the radial Boyer-Lindquist coordinates of the prograde photon orbit $r=r_{\rm ph}$, marginally bound orbit $r=r_{\rm mb}$ and innermost stable orbit $r=r_{\rm ms}$ of the extreme Kerr black hole all coincide with the event horizon’s value $r=r_+$. We find that the same property holds for the extreme Kerr-Newman black hole with mass $M$, angular momentum $J$ and electric charge $Q=\pm\sqrt{M^2-J^2/M^2}$ ($|J|\le M^2$) if and only if $|J|$ is greater than or equal to $M^2/2$, $M^2/\sqrt{3}$ and $M^2/\sqrt{2}$, respectively.

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S. Ulbricht and R. Meinel
Tue, 10 Mar 15
39/77

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures