Lensing by Kerr black holes
dc.contributor.author | Gralla, Samuel E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lupsasca, Alexandru | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-01T20:29:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-04-01T20:29:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-02-14 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Gralla, S. E., & Lupsasca, A. (2020). Lensing by Kerr black holes. Physical Review D, 101(4), 044031. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2470-0010 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/physrevd.101.044031 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/657275 | |
dc.description.abstract | Interpreting horizon-scale observations of astrophysical black holes demands a general understanding of null geodesics in the Kerr spacetime. These may be divided into two classes: "direct" rays that primarily determine the observational appearance of a given source, and highly bent rays that produce a nested sequence of exponentially demagnified images of the main emission: the so-called "photon ring." We develop heuristics that characterize the direct rays and study the highly bent geodesics analytically. We define three critical parameters gamma, delta, and tau that respectively control the demagnification, rotation, and time delay of successive images of the source, thereby providing an analytic theory of the photon ring. These observable parameters encode universal effects of general relativity, independent of the details of the emitting matter. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2020 American Physical Society. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en_US |
dc.title | Lensing by Kerr black holes | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2470-0029 | |
dc.contributor.department | Univ Arizona, Dept Phys | en_US |
dc.identifier.journal | PHYSICAL REVIEW D | en_US |
dc.description.collectioninformation | This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu. | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
dc.source.journaltitle | Physical Review D | |
dc.source.volume | 101 | |
dc.source.issue | 4 | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-04-01T20:29:35Z |