Thermodynamics of a black hole with moon

Samuel E. Gralla, Alexandre Le Tiec

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Abstract

For a Kerr black hole perturbed by a particle on the "corotating" circular orbit (angular velocity equal to that of the unperturbed event horizon), the black hole remains in equilibrium in the sense that the perturbed event horizon is a Killing horizon of the helical Killing field. The associated surface gravity is constant over the horizon and should correspond to the physical Hawking temperature. We calculate the perturbation in surface gravity/temperature, finding it negative: the moon has a cooling effect on the black hole. We also compute the change in horizon angular frequency, which is positive, and the change in surface area/entropy, which vanishes.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number044021
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume88
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 9 2013
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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