Strong gravity Lense-Thirring Precession in Kerr and Kerr-Taub-NUT spacetimes

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An exact expression derived in the literature for the rate of dragging of inertial frames (Lense-Thirring (LT) precession) in a general stationary spacetime, is reviewed.

• The exact LT precession frequencies for Kerr, Kerr-Taub-NUT and Taub-NUT spacetimes are explicitly derived.
• Remarkably, in the case of the zero angular momentum Taub-NUT spacetime, the frame-dragging effect is shown {\it not} to vanish, when considered for spinning test gyroscopes.
• The result becomes sharper for the case of vanishing ADM mass of that spacetime.