New light rings from multiple critical curves as observational signatures of black hole mimickers

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2022.137045zbMATH Open1496.85003arXiv2110.10002OpenAlexW3206846356MaRDI QIDQ2140657FDOQ2140657

Diego Rubiera-Garcia, Gonzalo J. Olmo, Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

Publication date: 23 May 2022

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We argue that the appearance of additional light rings in a shadow observation - beyond the infinite sequence of exponentially demagnified self-similar rings foreseen in the Kerr solution - would make a compelling case for the existence of black hole mimickers having multiple critical curves. We support this claim by discussing three different scenarios of spherically symmetric wormhole geometries having two such critical curves, and explicitly work out the optical appearance of one such object when surrounded by an optically and geometrically thin accretion disk.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10002

zbMATH Keywords

wormhole

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Plane and space curves (14H50) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Black holes (83C57) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

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