Magnetized Particles with Electric Charge around Schwarzschild Black Holes in External Magnetic Fields

Abstract

We investigate the dynamics of test particles endowed with both electric charge and a magnetic dipole moment around a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) immersed in an externally asymptotically uniform magnetic field. We further analyse the effective potential and specific angular momentum and energy of the particles. Furthermore, we show that the upper limit for magnetic interaction parameter β increases with increasing cyclotron frequency ωB, while the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) for charged test particles decreases for the upper value of β=βupper. Furthermore, we show that the energy efficiency released from the BH increases up to about 90% due to the presence of the magnetic dipole moment of the test particle. We explore a degeneracy between the spin parameter of rotating Kerr BH and the magnetic parameter for the values of the ISCO radius and energy efficiency. We study in detail the centre of mass energy for collisions of charged and magnetized particles in the environment surrounding the Schwarzchild BH. Finally, as an astrophysical application, we explore the magnetized parameter and cyclotron frequency numerically for a rotating magnetized neutron star. Interestingly, we show that the corresponding values of the above-mentioned parameters for the magnetar PSR J1745-2900 that orbits around the supermassive black hole (SMBH) that exists at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy are ωB≃5 and β≃0.67, respectively, for the magnetic field is about 10 G.

Keywords

• magnetized particles
• black holes
• magnetic field
• and centre-of-mass energy