Kinetic gas disks surrounding Schwarzschild black holes

Abstract

We describe stationary and axisymmetric gas configurations surrounding black holes. They consist of a collisionless relativistic kinetic gas of identical massive particles following bound orbits in a Schwarzschild exterior spacetime and are modeled by a one-particle distribution function which is the product of a function of the energy and a function of the orbital inclination associated with the particle's trajectory. The morphology of the resulting configuration is analyzed.

7 pages, 6 figures, prepared for the Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity

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