Causal concept for black hole shadows

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABC440zbMATH Open1479.83169arXiv1908.02921OpenAlexW3094117390MaRDI QIDQ5162482FDOQ5162482

Authors: Masaru Siino 

Publication date: 2 November 2021

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

Abstract: Causal concept for the general black hole shadow is investigated, instead of the photon sphere. We define several `wandering null geodesics' as complete null geodesics accompanied by repetitive conjugate points, which would correspond to null geodesics on the photon sphere in Schwarzschild spacetime. We also define a `wandering set', that is, a set of totally wandering null geodesics as a counterpart of the photon sphere, and moreover, a truncated wandering null geodesic to symbolically discuss its formation. Then we examine the existence of a wandering null geodesic in general black hole spacetimes mainly in terms of Weyl focusing. We will see the essence of the black hole shadow is not the stationary cycling of the photon orbits which is the concept only available in a stationary spacetime, but their accumulation. A wandering null geodesic implies that this accumulation will be occur somewhere in an asymptotically flat spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02921

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zbMATH Keywords

conjugate pointphoton sphereblack hole shadow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Black holes (83C57)

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