Photon Ring Interferometric Signatures Beyond The Universal Regime

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Autores principales: Jia, He, Quataert, Eliot, Lupsasca, Alexandru, Wong, George N.
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Publicado: 2024
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author Jia, He
Quataert, Eliot
Lupsasca, Alexandru
Wong, George N.
author_facet Jia, He
Quataert, Eliot
Lupsasca, Alexandru
Wong, George N.
contents We calculate the interferometric signatures of black hole photon rings beyond the universal regime by perturbatively including the effects of finite ring width. Our approach first slices a thick ring into a series of thin rings, each of which falls within the universal regime. We thus calculate the visibility of the thick ring by aggregating the contributions from each thin ring, and then perturbatively expand the result into polynomials of the baseline length $u$. We show that the visibility amplitude of a thick ring depends on its "center-of-light" diameter; it also includes additional higher-order corrections due to the width of the ring, with the leading correction terms proportional to $u^2$ for the envelope and $u^3$ for the phase. We apply our method to images ray traced from general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations and demonstrate that incorporating the higher-order corrections is crucial for accurately modeling the visibility of the first photon ring around M87*.
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spellingShingle Photon Ring Interferometric Signatures Beyond The Universal Regime
Jia, He
Quataert, Eliot
Lupsasca, Alexandru
Wong, George N.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
We calculate the interferometric signatures of black hole photon rings beyond the universal regime by perturbatively including the effects of finite ring width. Our approach first slices a thick ring into a series of thin rings, each of which falls within the universal regime. We thus calculate the visibility of the thick ring by aggregating the contributions from each thin ring, and then perturbatively expand the result into polynomials of the baseline length $u$. We show that the visibility amplitude of a thick ring depends on its "center-of-light" diameter; it also includes additional higher-order corrections due to the width of the ring, with the leading correction terms proportional to $u^2$ for the envelope and $u^3$ for the phase. We apply our method to images ray traced from general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations and demonstrate that incorporating the higher-order corrections is crucial for accurately modeling the visibility of the first photon ring around M87*.
title Photon Ring Interferometric Signatures Beyond The Universal Regime
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08804