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Chaotic motion in the Johannsen-Psaltis spacetime
Zelenka, Ondřej ; Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Georgios
The Johannsen-Psaltis spacetime is a perturbation of the Kerr spacetime designed to avoid pathologies like naked singularities and closed timelike curves. This spacetime depends not only on the mass and the spin of the compact object, but also on extra parameters, making the spacetime deviate from Kerr. In this work we consider only the lowest order physically meaningful extra parameter. We use numerical examples to show that geodesic motion in this spacetime can exhibit chaotic behavior. We study the corresponding phase space by using Poincaré sections and rotation numbers to show chaotic behavior, and we use Lyapunov exponents to directly estimate the sensitivity to initial conditions for chaotic orbits.
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Kinematics of particle collisions in the ergosphere of Kerr black hole
Skoupý, Viktor ; Ledvinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Žofka, Martin (referee)
In the thesis we deal with an effect which can be used to extract energy from a rotating black hole, so-called collisional Penrose process. First we investigate the ways to find the equations of motion in the general relativity using Hamilto- nian. Then we examine the equations of motion and their consequences in several coordinate systems for the space-time in the vicinity of a rotating black hole. Fi- nally we look into ways to create a particle capable to escape to infinity with as big energy as possible using Compton scattering and annihilation. The biggest energy found is approximately 14 times the energy of the incoming particles. The efficiency decreases with the distance from the horizon and with the decreasing specific angular momentum of the black hole. 1
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Rotating thin disc around a Schwarzschild black hole: properties of perturbative solution
Kotlařík, Petr ; Semerák, Oldřich (advisor) ; Ledvinka, Tomáš (referee)
In 1974, Will presented a solution for the perturbation of a Schwarzschild black hole due to a slowly rotating and light thin disc given in terms of a multipole expansion of the perturbation series. In a recently submitted paper, P. Čížek and O. Semerák generalized this procedure to the perturbation by a slowly rotating finite thin disc, using closed forms of Green functions rather than the multipole expansion. The method is illustrated there, in the first perturbation order, on the constant-density disc. In this thesis, we summarize, check and plot some of the obtained properties, and show how the presence of the disc changes the geometry of a horizon and the position of significant circular orbits. 1
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Fields of current loops around black holes
Vlasáková, Zuzana ; Semerák, Oldřich (advisor) ; Svítek, Otakar (referee)
The magnetic field of a test circular current loop placed symmetrically around a Schwarzschild black hole has been determined several times in the literature and solutions has been expressed by different formulas. We compare these formulas analytically as well as numerically, and show, in particular, how they behave on the symmetry axis, in the equatorial plane and on the horizon. The problem is relevant for modelling accretion discs around black holes.
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Tidal disruption in the vicinity of black holes in active galaxies
Štolc, Marcel ; Svoboda, Jiří (advisor) ; Haas, Jaroslav (referee)
In this thesis we studied tidal disruptions of stars in the vicinity of com- pact objects and performed spectral re-analysis of XMMSL1 J074008.2-853927, one of the most prominent candidates of tidal disruption events (TDE) around super-massive black holes. This particular TDE shows signs of thermal and non- thermal radiation component and is also indicating the energy excess correspond- ing to the iron line emission of Fe Kα line. We analysed X-ray spectra from two XMM-Newton observations - from the 30-th of April 2014 and the 12-th of Jan- uary 2015 that were follow-up observations after the discovery of this TDE. We confirmed the possible thermal and non-thermal profile of radiation and the pres- ence of Fe Kα line in the data of the first XMM-Newton follow-up observation. We studied in detail the parameters of the iron line, which cannot be to tightly constrained due to insufficient quality of data. However, we also showed that in case of modelling the excess in lower energy band with relativistic reflection the parameters can be constrained. 1
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Chaotic motion in Johannsen-Psaltis spacetime
Zelenka, Ondřej ; Loukes Gerakopoulos, Georgios (advisor) ; Kopáček, Ondřej (referee)
The Johannsen-Psaltis spacetime is a perturbation of the Kerr spacetime de- signed to avoid pathologies like naked singularities and closed timelike curves. This spacetime depends not only on the mass and the spin of the central object, but also on extra parameters, making the spacetime deviate from Kerr; in this work we consider only the lowest order physically meaningful extra parameter. In this thesis we summarize the basics of the theory of regular and chaotic dynamics and we use numerical examples to show that geodesic motion in this spacetime can exhibit chaotic behavior. We study the corresponding phase space by using Poincaré sections and rotation numbers to show chaotic behavior both directly and indirectly (e.g. Birkhoff chains), and we use Lyapunov exponents to directly estimate the sensitivity to initial conditions for chaotic orbits. 1
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Space-times with toroidal horizons
Pešta, Milan ; Semerák, Oldřich (advisor) ; Ledvinka, Tomáš (referee)
Basic results of the uniqueness theorems and the topological-censorship theorem are presented. Properties of the well-known solution of Einstein's equations with a toroidal event horizon are examined and one of possible visualizations of the coordinate system that helps to better understand the behaviour of various invariants in the vicinity of the singularity is suggested. Apart from this solution, two solutions with a ring singularity are introduced as potential candidates for space-times with toroidal horizons whose properties are interpreted intuitively using the toroidal or Weyl coordinate systems. Last part is devoted to apparent horizons of the considered solutions and the differential equation for the apparent horizon of an arbitrary solution of the Weyl class is derived. The numerical solution of this equation is not presented.
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Magnetic fields of current loops around black holes
Pejcha, Jakub ; Semerák, Oldřich (advisor) ; Ledvinka, Tomáš (referee)
Magnetic field of equatorial current loop around Schwarzschild (or Kerr) black hole has been studied in many papers and solutions expressed in different forms. In this work we summarize derivations of some of these solutions, illustrate them on specific examples and compare these examples. We also indicate analytic com- parison of some of the formulas. Published formulas lead, as expected, to same results, but some of them are more convenient for numerical evaluation. 1
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Symmetries of systems in spaces related to high-dimensional black hole spacetime
Kolář, Ivan ; Krtouš, Pavel (advisor) ; Kubizňák, David (referee)
In this work we study properties of the higher-dimensional generally rotating black hole space-time so-called Kerr-NUT-(A)dS and the related spaces with the same explicit and hidden symetries as the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetime. First, we search commuta- tivity conditions for classical (charged) observables and their operator analogues, then we investigate a fulfilment of these conditions in the metioned spaces. We calculate the curvature of these spaces and solve the charged Hamilton-Jacobi and Klein-Gordon equations by the separation of the variables for an electromagnetic field, which pre- serves integrability of motion of a charged particle and mutual commutativity of the corresponding operators.
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