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超大质量黑洞阴影能检验克尔度规吗?

Can supermassive black hole shadows test the Kerr metric?

Kostas Glampedakis, George Pappas

摘要:

这张前所未有的M87* 超大质量黑洞图像引发了一些关于它作为广义相对论克尔度规测试有用性的争议。批评主要与黑洞的准圆形阴影有关,并主张其半径不仅取决于黑洞的真实时空性质,还取决于鲜为人知的物理学照明吸积流。在本文中,我们采取了一个清醒的观点的问题,并认为我们的能力,探测引力与黑洞阴影只是部分受损的物质自由度和非克尔参数的数量在模型中使用。正如我们在这里所展示的,一个更有趣的情况来自于通常出现在非GR引力理论中的维度耦合常数的质量标度。现有的引力波观测的限制意味着,像M87* 黑洞这样的超大质量系统在它们的度规中会受到所有非GR偏差参数的抑制,使得时空和产生的阴影实际上是克尔的。因此,一个超大质量黑洞的阴影很可能只探测那些广义相对论的扩展,这些扩展被赋予了无量纲的耦合常数或其他特殊情况下的屏蔽机制的黑洞或某些类型的自发标量化。

英文摘要:

The unprecedented image of the M87* supermassive black hole has sparked some controversy over its usefulness as a test of the general relativistic Kerr metric. The criticism is mainly related to the black hole's quasi-circular shadow and advocates that its radius depends not only on the black hole's true spacetime properties but also on the poorly known physics of the illuminating accretion flow. In this paper we take a sober view of the problem and argue that our ability to probe gravity with a black hole shadow is only partially impaired by the matter degrees of freedom and the number of non-Kerr parameters used in the model. As we show here, a more intriguing situation arises from the mass scaling of the dimensional coupling constants that typically appear in non-GR theories of gravity. Existing limits from gravitational wave observations imply that supermassive systems like the M87* black hole would suffer a suppression of all non-GR deviation parameters in their metric, making the spacetime and the produced shadow virtually Kerr. Therefore, a supermassive black hole shadow is likely to probe only those extensions of General Relativity which are endowed with dimensionless coupling constants or other special cases with a screening mechanism for black holes or certain types of spontaneous scalarisation.

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