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Kerr ISCO spin limits

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For equatorial test-particle circular orbits in the extremal-spin limit, the prograde Kerr black hole innermost stable circular orbit has Boyer-Lindquist radius tending to GM/c2 and specific energy tending to 1/3​. The retrograde limit has radius 9GM/c2 and specific energy 5/(33​). The prograde radius approaching the horizon coordinate does not make the massive limiting orbit identical to the null horizon generator.[ref]

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