The motion of a charged black hole in an electromagnetic field

Article

The motion of a charged black hole in an electromagnetic field

Bičák, J.

Proc. R. Soc. A 371(0), 429-438 (1980)

Abstract

The motion of a charged black hole in a weak, asymptotically uniform electric field is analyzed by using the Hamiltonian formalism for coupled electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations of the Reissner-Nordstrom space-time. The hole is shown to accelerate with respect to a distant inertial observer according to Newton's law. The relation of the approximate solution obtained to the exact solution of Ernst, representing the charged C-metric without nodal singularity, is then clarified.

Keywords

ASTROPHYSICS, BLACK HOLES (ASTRONOMY), ELECTRIC FIELDS, STELLAR MOTIONS, ACCELERATION (PHYSICS), ASTRONOMICAL MODELS, ASYMPTOTIC METHODS, PERTURBATION THEORY, TRANSFORMATIONS (MATHEMATICS)

Institute authors

Bičák, Jiří

BibTeX

@article{UTF307,
  author        = {Bičák, J.},
  title         = {{The motion of a charged black hole in an electromagnetic field}},
  journal       = {Proc. R. Soc. A},
  volume        = {371},
  number        = {0},
  pages         = {429-438},
  year          = {1980},
}