Perturbative photon escape cones in the Kerr spacetime
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| author | Baines, Joshua Visser, Matt |
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| contents | We consider the perturbative, fully explicit, analytical behaviour of photon escape cones in the Kerr spacetime. When one conducts the fully general non-perturbative Kerr analysis, one quickly finds that one must at some point appeal to numerical and/or graphical methods. Herein we find that we are able to say much more if we look at the slow rotation limit (i.e., $a \ll m$). Indeed we give explicit and tractable expressions for the first and second order (in $a$) contributions to both the shape of the escape cone, and the solid angle subtended by the escape cone. We then look at a few special cases at each order, thereby leading to explicit expressions for the black hole silhouette, expressions which are of great interest to the observational community when studying images of black hole silhouettes ("shadows"). |
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| spellingShingle | Perturbative photon escape cones in the Kerr spacetime Baines, Joshua Visser, Matt General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology We consider the perturbative, fully explicit, analytical behaviour of photon escape cones in the Kerr spacetime. When one conducts the fully general non-perturbative Kerr analysis, one quickly finds that one must at some point appeal to numerical and/or graphical methods. Herein we find that we are able to say much more if we look at the slow rotation limit (i.e., $a \ll m$). Indeed we give explicit and tractable expressions for the first and second order (in $a$) contributions to both the shape of the escape cone, and the solid angle subtended by the escape cone. We then look at a few special cases at each order, thereby leading to explicit expressions for the black hole silhouette, expressions which are of great interest to the observational community when studying images of black hole silhouettes ("shadows"). |
| title | Perturbative photon escape cones in the Kerr spacetime |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13058 |