Novel shadows from the asymmetric thin-shell wormhole

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135930zbMATH Open1475.83099arXiv2007.03327OpenAlexW3097320335MaRDI QIDQ820408FDOQ820408

Authors: Xiaobao Wang, Pengcheng Li, Chengyong Zhang, Minyong Guo 

Publication date: 27 September 2021

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

Abstract: For dark compact objects such as black holes or wormholes, the shadow size has long been thought to be determined by the unstable photon sphere (region). However, by considering the asymmetric thin-shell wormhole (ATSW) model, we find that the impact parameter of the null geodesics is discontinuous through the wormhole in general and hence we identify novel shadows whose sizes are dependent of the photon sphere in the other side of the spacetime. The novel shadows appear in three cases: (A2) The observer's spacetime contains a photon sphere and the mass parameter is smaller than that of the opposite side; (B1, B2) there' s no photon sphere no matter which mass parameter is bigger. In particular, comparing with the black hole, the wormhole shadow size is always smaller and their difference is significant in most cases, which provides a potential way to observe wormholes directly through Event Horizon Telescope with better detection capability in the future.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03327

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Black holes (83C57)

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