Bound orbits in a class of traversable wormhole spacetimes

Authors

  • Jerome Pardo Mecca National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Michael Francis Ian Vega National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

We consider a two-parameter family of spherically-symmetric wormhole spacetimes introduced by Konoplya and Zhidenko. Such wormholes belong to the more general Morris-Thorne class of traversable wormholes. We study timelike geodesics in this class of spacetimes and investigate the possibility of bound orbits. For Konoplya-Zhidenko wormholes, we show that there exists only an unstable circular orbit at the throat location. This particular class of wormhole spacetimes also admits eccentric bound orbits for a particular set of initial conditions (particle energy, initial radial position, wormhole throat and shape exponent, and the parameter p). We generalized our result to the generic Morris-Thorne class of traversable wormholes and demonstrated that this class does not permit stable circular orbit at the throat.

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Article ID

SPP-2018-PB-42

Section

Poster Session B (Complex Systems, Simulations, and Theoretical Physics)

Published

2018-05-28

How to Cite

[1]
JP Mecca and MFI Vega, Bound orbits in a class of traversable wormhole spacetimes, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 36, SPP-2018-PB-42 (2018). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2018-PB-42.