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Chaotic geodesic motion around a black hole and disc

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2011

Abstract

We study the chaotic features of time-like free motion around a Schwarzschild black hole, induced by the presence of a static, axially and reflectionally symmetric thin disc or ring. We describe the field by an exact (Weyl-type) solution of Einstein's equations and use Poincaré sections and time-series analysis in order to recognise overall tendencies in the evolution of phase portrait as well as changes that can be traced down to single orbits and their segments.