Orbital widening due to radiation reaction around a magnetized black hole

Abstract

Radiation reaction acting on a charged particle moving at a stable circular orbit of a magnetized black hole can lead to the shift of the orbital radius outwards from the black hole. The effect causes increase of the energy and angular momentum of the particle measured by an observer at rest at infinity. In this note we show that "widening" of such orbits is independent of the field configuration, however, it appears only in the cases with the external Lorentz force acting outwards from the black hole. This condition corresponds to $qLB>0$, where $q$ and $L$ are the charge and angular momentum of the particle and $B$ is intensity of the external magnetic field. As examples of the orbital widening we consider two scenarios with an external homogeneous magnetic field and a magnetic dipole field generated by a current loop around a Schwarzschild black hole. We show that the orbital widening is accompanied by quasi-harmonic oscillations of the particle which are considerably large in the magnetic dipole fields. We also estimate the timescales of orbital widening from which it follows that the effect can be relevant in the vicinity of stellar mass black holes.

arXiv comment6 pages, 2 figures

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