Charged perfect fluid tori in strong central gravitational and dipolar magnetic fields

We study electrically charged perfect fluid toroidal structures encircling a spherically symmetric gravitating object with Schwarzschild spacetime geometry and endowed with a dipole magnetic field. The work represents a direct continuation of our previous general-relativistic studies of electrically...

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Published in:Physical review. D 2016-06, Vol.93 (12), Article 124055
Main Authors: Kovář, Jiří, Slaný, Petr, Cremaschini, Claudio, Stuchlík, Zdeněk, Karas, Vladimír, Trova, Audrey
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Charging
Computational fluid dynamics
Fluids
Gravitation
Magnetic fields
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical models
Toruses
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Summary:We study electrically charged perfect fluid toroidal structures encircling a spherically symmetric gravitating object with Schwarzschild spacetime geometry and endowed with a dipole magnetic field. The work represents a direct continuation of our previous general-relativistic studies of electrically charged fluid in the approximation of zero conductivity, which formed tori around a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole or a Schwarzschild black hole equipped with a test electric charge and immersed in an asymptotically uniform magnetic field. After a general introduction of the zero-conductivity charged fluid model, we discuss a variety of possible topologies of the toroidal fluid configurations. Along with the charged equatorial tori forming interesting coupled configurations, we demonstrate the existence of the off-equatorial tori, for which the dipole type of magnetic field seems to be necessary. We focus on orbiting structures with constant specific angular momentum and on those in permanent rigid rotation. We stress that the general analytical treatment developed in our previous works is enriched here by the integrated form of the pressure equations. To put our work into an astrophysical context, we identify the central object with an idealization of a nonrotating magnetic neutron star. Constraining ranges of its parameters and also parameters of the circling fluid, we discuss a possible relevance of the studied toroidal structures, presenting along with their topology also pressure, density, temperature and charge profiles.
ISSN:2470-0010
2470-0029
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.124055