An Investigation of the Tomimatsu-Sato Spacetime

Abstract

We investigate the structure of the $\delta =2$ Tomimatsu-Sato spacetime. We show that this spacetime has degenerate horizons with two components, in contrast to the general belief that the Tomimatsu-Sato solutions with even $\delta$ do not have horizons.

5 pages,4 figures, in proceedings of the 12th Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation, Tokyo, Japan, 25-28 Nov 2002