Marginally stable circular orbit of a test body in spherically symmetric and static spacetimes

2014/10/23 by Ono, Toshiaki, Suzuki, Tomohito, Fushimi, Naomasa +2
#FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1410.6265

Abstract

We study a marginally stable circular orbit (MSCO) such as the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a timelike geodesic in any spherically symmetric and static spacetime. It turns out that the metric components are separable from the constants of motion along geodesics. We show also that a metric component g_rr with a radial coordinate r does not affect MSCOs. This suggests that, as a test of gravity, any ISCO measurement may be put into the same category as gravitational redshift experiments. MSCOs for exact solutions to the Einstein's equation are also mentioned.

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