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黑洞阴影探测了事件视界几何吗?

Does the black hole shadow probe the event horizon geometry?

Pedro V. P. Cunha, Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, Maria J. Rodriguez

摘要:

利用事件视界望远镜在不久的将来获得天体物理黑洞阴影是一个令人兴奋的前景。作为一个原则问题,这证明了我们可以从这样的测量中了解多少关于BH视界本身的信息。由于阴影是由一组特殊的光子轨道决定的,而不是由视界属性决定的,所以不同的视界几何形状可能会产生类似的阴影。人们可能会问,阴影对地平线几何的细节有多敏感?作为一个案例研究,我们认为双史瓦西BH和分析的影响,透镜和阴影的锥形奇点,保持两个BH的平衡-这里采取的是一个支柱沿对称轴之间的两个BH。而圆锥奇点诱导光子散射角的不连续性,在沿着支柱位置方向的透镜图案中清晰可见,它对阴影没有产生可观察到的影响,阴影的边缘在任何地方都保持平滑。后一个特征通过包括相等和不相等质量BH的示例来说明。这种平滑性与这些BH的视界(的空间部分)的不平滑的固有几何形状形成对比,并且提供了关于BH阴影如何对某些视界几何形状细节不敏感的鲜明示例。此外,这一观察表明,对于研究它们的阴影,这个静态双BH系统可能是动态双星的信息代理。

英文摘要:

There is an exciting prospect of obtaining the shadow of astrophysical black holes (BHs) in the near future with the Event Horizon Telescope. As a matter of principle, this justifies asking how much one can learn about the BH horizon itself from such a measurement. Since the shadow is determined by a set of special photon orbits, rather than horizon properties, it is possible that different horizon geometries yield similar shadows. One may then ask how sensitive is the shadow to details of the horizon geometry? As a case study, we consider the double Schwarzschild BH and analyse the impact on the lensing and shadows of the conical singularity that holds the two BHs in equilibrium -- herein taken to be a strut along the symmetry axis in between the two BHs. Whereas the conical singularity induces a discontinuity of the scattering angle of photons, clearly visible in the lensing patterns along the direction of the strut's location, it produces no observable effect on the shadows, whose edges remain everywhere smooth. The latter feature is illustrated by examples including both equal and unequal mass BHs. This smoothness contrasts with the intrinsic geometry of the (spatial sections of the) horizon of these BHs, which is not smooth, and provides a sharp example on how BH shadows are insensitive to some horizon geometry details. This observation, moreover, suggests that for the study of their shadows, this static double BH system may be an informative proxy for a dynamical binary.

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