Killing horizon

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A Killing horizon is a null hypersurface on which there is a null Killing vector field. (Killing fields are named after Wilhelm Killing.)

Associated to a Killing horizon is a geometrical quantity known as surface gravity, κ. If the surface gravity vanishes, then the Killing horizon is said to be degenerate.

[edit] Black hole Killing horizons

Exact black hole metrics such as the Kerr-Newman metric contain Killing horizons which coincide with their event horizons, however it should be emphasised that these two notions of horizon are independent. For this spacetime, the Killing horizon is located at

r = r_+ := M + \sqrt{M - Q^2 - J^2/M^2}.

In the usual coordinates, outside the Killing horizon, the killing vector field \partial / \partial t is timelike, whilst inside it is spacelike. The temperature of Hawking radiation is related to the surface gravity by TH = κ / 2π.

[edit] Cosmological Killing horizons

De Sitter space has a Killing horizon at r = \sqrt{3 / \Lambda} which emits thermal radiation at temperature T = (1 / 2 \pi) \sqrt{\Lambda / 3}.


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