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Circular geodesics of naked singularities in the Kehagias-Sfetsos metric of Horava's gravity

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 90, Issue 2, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.024035

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  1. Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [2013/01001-0, CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0071]
  2. Polish NCN [2013/08/A/ST9/00795, 2011/01/B/ST9/05439]
  3. Albert Einstein Center for Gravitation and Astrophysics, Czech Science Foundation [14-37086G]

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We discuss photon and test-particle orbits in the Kehagias-Sfetsos (KS) metric of Horava's gravity. For any value of the Horava parameter., there are values of the gravitational mass M for which the metric describes a naked singularity, and this is always accompanied by a vacuum antigravity sphere on whose surface a test particle can remain at rest (in a zero angular momentum geodesic), and inside which no circular geodesics exist. The observational appearance of an accreting KS naked singularity in a binary system would be that of a quasistatic spherical fluid shell surrounded by an accretion disk, whose properties depend on the value of M, but are always very different from accretion disks familiar from the Kerr-metric solutions. The properties of the corresponding circular orbits are qualitatively similar to those of the Reissner-Nordstrom naked singularities. When event horizons are present, the orbits outside the Kehagias-Sfetsos black hole are qualitatively similar to those of the Schwarzschild metric.

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