2002/05/31 by Banibrata Mukhopadhyay · 5 citations
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Accretion disc #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Black hole (networking) #Classical mechanics #General relativity #Geometry #Gravitation #Kerr metric #Mathematics #Mechanics and Biomechanics Studies #Newtonian fluid #Newtonian potential #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum mechanics #Relativistic quantum chemistry #Rotating black hole #Rotation (mathematics) #Schwarzschild metric #astro-ph #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/344227
published as Astrophys.J. 581 (2002) 427 · 5 Latex pages including 1 figure. Version to appear in Astrophysical Journal, V-581, N-1, December 10, 2002
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We present a pseudo-Newtonian potential for accretion disk modeling around a rotating black hole. This potential can describe the general relativistic effects on the accretion disk. As the inclusion of rotation in a proper way is very important at the inner edge of the disk, the potential is derived from the Kerr metric. This potential can reproduce all the essential properties of general relativity within 10% error, even for rapidly rotating black holes.