Numerical black hole initial data and shadows in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAFCDFMaRDI QIDQ3380509zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Maria Okounkova, Mark A. Scheel, Saul A. Teukolsky

Publication date 29 September 2021

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05306

zbMATH Keywords

black hole shadowsdynamical Chern-Simonsgeneral relativitynumerical relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: We present a scheme for generating first-order metric perturbation initial data for an arbitrary background and source. We then apply this scheme to derive metric perturbations in order-reduced dynamical Chern-Simons gravity (dCS). In particular, we solve for metric perturbations on a black hole background that are sourced by a first-order dCS scalar field. This gives us the leading-order metric perturbation to the spacetime in dCS gravity. We then use these solutions to compute black hole shadows in the linearly perturbed spacetime by evolving null geodesics. We present a novel scheme to decompose the shape of the shadow into multipoles parametrized by the spin of the background black hole and the perturbation parameter $varepsilo{n}^2$. We find that we can differentiate the presence of a pure Kerr spacetime from a spacetime with a dCS perturbation using the shadow, allowing in part for a null-hypothesis test of general relativity. We then consider these results in the context of the Event Horizon Telescope.

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