How to measure a black hole’s mass, spin, and direction of spin axis in the Kerr lens effect 1: Test case with simple source emission near a black hole

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTX060MaRDI QIDQ3379713zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hiromi Saida

Publication date 27 September 2021

Published in PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04716

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

Abstract: We propose a theoretical principle to measure the mass, spin and direction of spin axis of Kerr black holes (BHs) through observing 2 quantities of the spinning strong gravitational lens effect of BHs. Those observable quantities are generated by 2 light rays emitted at the same time by a source near the BH: the primary and secondary rays that reach a distant observer, respectively, the earliest and secondary temporally. The time delay between detection times and the ratio of observed specific fluxes of those rays are the observable quantities. Rigorously, our proposal is applicable to a single burst-like (short duration) isotropic emission by the source. An extension of our principle to cases of complicated emissions may be constructed by summing up appropriately the result of this paper, which will be treated in future works.

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