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Rafal Moderski

Publications and source records attributed to Rafal Moderski.

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arXiv1999

The Question of Abelian Higgs Hair Expulsion from Extremal Dilaton Black Holes

It has been argued that the extremal dilaton black holes exhibit a flux expulsion of Abelian-Higgs vortices. We re-examine carefully the problem and give analytic proofs for the flux expulsion always takes place. We also conduct numerical analysis of the problem using three initial data sets on the horizon of an extreme dilatonic black hole, namely, core, vacuum and sinusoidal initial conditions. We also show that an Abelian-Higgs vortex can end on the extremal dilaton black hole. Concluding, we calculate the backreaction of the Abelian-Higgs vortex on the geometry of the extremal black hole and drew a conclusion that a straight cosmic string and the extreme dilaton black hole hardly knew their presence.

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arXiv1998

Abelian Higgs Hair for Electrically Charged Dilaton Black Holes

It is argued that an electronically charged dilaton black hole can support a long range field of a Nielsen-Olesen string. Combining both numerical and perturbative techniques we examine the properties of an Abelian-Higgs vortex in the presence of the black hole under consideration. Allowing the black hole to approach extremality we found that all fields of the vortex are expelled from the extreme black hole. In the thin string limit we obtained the metric of a conical electrically charged dilaton black hole. The effect of the vortex can be measured from infinity justifying its characterization as black hole hair.

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arXiv1997

On Black Hole Spins and Dichotomy of Quasars

Most quasars are known to be radio quiet and according to the ``spin paradigm'', which connects their radio-loudness with the value of the black hole spin, they must harbor very slowly rotating black holes. On the other hand, quasars are powered by accretion which tends to increase the spin of the black hole. We show that the Blandford-Znajek mechanism is not efficient enough to counteract the spinning up of black holes by an accretion disk, regardless of the accretion rate. We establish conditions under which it is possible to obtain low values of the black hole spin, in the scenario involving a sequence of many accretion events with random angular momenta. Our results are used to select possible evolutionary scenarios which can explain radio bimodality of quasars in terms of the ``spin paradigm''.

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