Extended bodies with spin induced quadrupoles on circular equatorial orbits in Kerr spacetime

Iason Timogiannis, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Theocharis A. Apostolatos

This work discusses the motion of extended test bodies as described by the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) equations in the pole-dipole-quadrupole approximation. We focus on the c…