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Spinning gyroscope in an acoustic black hole: precession effects and observational aspects

The European Physical Journal C

The exact precession frequency of a freelyprecessing test gyroscope is derived for a 2 + 1 dimensional rotating acoustic black hole analogue spacetime, without making the somewhat unrealistic assumption that the gyroscope is static. We show that, as a consequence, the gyroscope crosses the acoustic ergosphere of the black hole with a finite precession frequency, provided its angular velocity lies within a particular range determined by the stipulation that the Killing vector is timelike over the ergoregion. Specializing to the 'Draining Sink' acoustic black hole, the precession frequency is shown to diverge near the acoustic horizon, instead of the vicinity of the ergosphere. In the limit of an infinitesimally small rotation of the acoustic black hole, the gyroscope still precesses with a finite frequency, thus confirming a behaviour analogous to geodetic precession in a physical non-rotating spacetime like a Schwarzschild black hole. Possible experimental approaches to detect acoustic spin precession and measure the consequent precession frequency, are discussed.

Gyroscopic precession in the vicinity of a static blackhole’s event horizon

General Relativity and Gravitation, 2023

In this article, we investigate gyroscopic precession in the vicinity of a spherically symmetric static event horizon. Our goal is to address whether the gyroscopic precession frequency diverges when approaching an event horizon. To do so, we employ the Frenet–Serret formalism of gyroscopic precession, which provides a complete covariant formalism, and extend it to include arbitrary timelike curves. We analyze the precession frequency near the Schwarzschild and Schwarzschild-anti-de-Sitter black holes, using horizon-penetrating Kerr–Schild coordinates to eliminate coordinate singularities near the horizon. Our study shows that a diverging gyroscopic precession frequency is not a universal feature for a trajectory crossing an event horizon. As a counter-example, we construct a timelike curve passing through the event horizon along which the gyroscopic precession frequency remains finite at the horizon.

Spin Precession in the Gravity Wave Analogue Black Hole Spacetime

Universe

It was predicted that the spin precession frequency of a stationary gyroscope shows various anomalies in the strong gravity regime if its orbit shrinks, and eventually, its precession frequency becomes arbitrarily high very close to the horizon of a rotating black hole. Considering the gravity waves of a flowing fluid with a vortex in a shallow basin, which acts as a rotating analogue black hole, one can observe the predicted strong gravity effect on the spin precession in the laboratory. Attaching a thread with the buoyant particles and anchoring it to the bottom of the fluid container with a short-length miniature chain, one can construct a simple local test gyroscope to measure the spin precession frequency in the vicinity of the gravity wave analogue black hole. The thread acts as the axis of the gyroscope. By regulating the orbital frequency of the test gyroscope, one can also measure the strong gravity Lense–Thirring effect and geodetic/de-Sitter effect with this experimental ...

Spin precession in a black hole and naked singularity spacetimes

Physical Review D, 2017

We propose here a specific criterion to address the existence or otherwise of Kerr naked singularities, in terms of the precession of the spin of a test gyroscope due to the frame dragging by the central spinning body. We show that there is indeed an important characteristic difference in the behavior of gyro spin precession frequency in the limit of approach to these compact objects, and this can be used, in principle, to differentiate the naked singularity from black hole. Specifically, if gyroscopes are fixed all along the polar axis upto the horizon of a Kerr black hole, the precession frequency becomes arbitrarily high, blowing up as the event horizon is approached. On the other hand, in the case of naked singularity, this frequency remains always finite and well-behaved. Interestingly, this behavior is intimately related to and is governed by the geometry of the ergoregion in each of these cases which we analyze here. One intriguing behavior that emerges is, in the Kerr naked singularity case, the Lense-Thirring precession frequency (ΩLT) of the gyroscope due to frame-dragging effect decreases as (ΩLT ∝ r) after reaching a maximum, in the limit of r = 0, as opposed to r −3 dependence in all other known astrophysical cases.

Gyroscope precession along unbound equatorial plane orbits around a Kerr black hole

Physical Review D

The precession of a test gyroscope along unbound equatorial plane geodesic orbits around a Kerr black hole is analyzed with respect to a static reference frame whose axes point towards the "fixed stars." The accumulated precession angle after a complete scattering process is evaluated and compared with the corresponding change in the orbital angle. Limiting results for the non-rotating Schwarzschild black hole case are also discussed.

Acoustic black holes: horizons, ergospheres and Hawking radiation

Classical and Quantum Gravity, 1998

It is a deceptively simple question to ask how acoustic disturbances propagate in a non-homogeneous flowing fluid. Subject to suitable restrictions, this question can be answered by invoking the language of Lorentzian differential geometry. This paper begins with a pedagogical derivation of the following result: if the fluid is barotropic and inviscid, and the flow is irrotational (though possibly time dependent), then the equation of motion for the velocity potential describing a sound wave is identical to that for a minimally coupled massless scalar field propagating in a (3 + 1)-dimensional Lorentzian geometry ψ ≡ 1 √ −g ∂ µ √ −g g µν ∂ ν ψ = 0. The acoustic metric g µν (t, x) governing the propagation of sound depends algebraically on the density, flow velocity, and local speed of sound. Even though the underlying fluid dynamics is Newtonian, non-relativistic, and takes place in flat space plus time, the fluctuations (sound waves) are governed by an effective (3 + 1)-dimensional Lorentzian spacetime geometry. This rather simple physical system exhibits a remarkable connection between classical Newtonian physics and the differential geometry of curved (3 + 1)-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes, and is the basis underlying a deep and fruitful analogy between the black holes of Einstein gravity and supersonic fluid flows. Many results and definitions can be carried over directly from one system to another. For example, it will be shown how to define the ergosphere, trapped regions, acoustic apparent horizon, and acoustic event horizon for a supersonic fluid flow, and the close relationship between the acoustic metric for the fluid flow surrounding a point sink and the Painlevé-Gullstrand form of the Schwarzschild metric for a black hole will be exhibited. This analysis can be used either to provide a concrete non-relativistic analogy for black-hole physics, or to provide a framework for attacking acoustics problems with the full power of Lorentzian differential geometry.

On gravitomagnetic precession around black holes

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1999

We compute exactly the frequency of Lense-Thirring precession for point masses in the Kerr metric, for arbitrary black hole mass and specific angular momentum. We show that this frequency, for point masses at or close to the innermost stable orbit, and for holes with moderate to extreme rotation, is less than, but comparable to the rotation frequency. Thus, if the quasi-periodic oscillations observed in the modulation of the Xray flux from some black holes candidates, BHCs, are due to Lense-Thirring precession of orbiting material, we predict that a separate, distinct QPO ought to be observed in each object.

The motion of a gyroscope freely falling into a Schwarzschild black hole

General Relativity and Gravitation, 1991

In this note we investigate the motion of the axis of a gyroscope freely falling along the radial geodesic in Schwarzschild space-time. It is shown that the gyroscope's axis rotates to the radial direction in the orthonormal frame as it falls into the black hole.

Superresonance from a rotating acoustic black hole

Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2003

Using the analogy between a shrinking fluid vortex ('draining bathtub'), modelled as a (2+1) dimensional fluid flow with a sink at the origin, and a rotating (2+1) dimensional black hole with an ergosphere, it is shown that a scalar sound wave is reflected from such a vortex with an amplification for a specific range of frequencies of the incident wave, depending on the angular velocity of rotation of the vortex. We discuss the possibility of observation of this phenomenon, especially for inviscid fluids like liquid HeII, where vortices with quantized angular momentum may occur.

Gyroscope precession in cylindrically symmetric spacetimes

Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2000

We present calculations of gyroscope precession in spacetimes described by Levi-Civita and Lewis metrics, under different circumstances. By doing so we are able to establish a link between the parameters of the metrics and observable quantities, providing thereby a physical interpretation for those parameters, without specifying the source of the field.