Lightlike geodesics and gravitational lensing in the spacetime of an accelerating black hole

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABE0F5MaRDI QIDQ5163365zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Torben C. Frost, Volker Perlick

Publication date 3 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11908

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensingC-metricaccelerating black holes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: The C-metric is a solution to Einstein's vacuum field equation that describes an accelerating black hole. In this paper we discuss the propagation of light rays and the resulting lensing features in this metric. We first solve the lightlike geodesic equation using elliptic integrals and Jacobi elliptic functions. Then we fix a static observer in the region of outer communication of the C-metric and introduce an orthonormal tetrad to parameterise the directions of the light rays ending at the position of the observer using latitude-longitude coordinates on the observer's celestial sphere. In this parameterisation we rederive the angular radius of the shadow, we formulate a lens equation, and we derive the redshift and the travel time of light rays. We discuss the relevance of our theoretical results for detecting accelerating black holes described by the C-metric and for distinguishing them from non-accelerating black holes.

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