Imaging and Polarimetric Signatures of Konoplya-Zhidenko Black Holes with Various Thick Disk

Fuente: arXiv
Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Wang, Xinyu, Wang, Yukang, Zeng, Xiao-Xiong
Formato: Preprint
Publicado: 2025
Materias:
Acceso en línea:
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
_version_ 1866915966472945664
author Wang, Xinyu
Wang, Yukang
Zeng, Xiao-Xiong
author_facet Wang, Xinyu
Wang, Yukang
Zeng, Xiao-Xiong
contents We investigate the imaging properties of spherically symmetric Konoplya-Zhidenko (KZ) black holes surrounded by geometrically thick accretion flows, adopting a phenomenological radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF) model and an analytical ballistic approximation accretion flow (BAAF) model. General relativistic radiative transfer is employed to compute synchrotron emission from thermal electrons and generate horizon-scale images. For the RIAF model, we analyze the dependence of image morphology on the deformation parameter, observing frequency, and flow dynamics. The photon ring and central dark region expand with increasing deformation parameter, with brightness asymmetries arising at high inclinations and depending on flow dynamics and emission anisotropy. The BAAF disk produces narrower rings and darker centers, while polarization patterns trace the brightness distribution and vary with viewing angle and deformation, revealing spacetime structure. These results demonstrate that intensity and polarization in thick-disk models provide probes of KZ black holes and near-horizon accretion physics.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2510_17906
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Imaging and Polarimetric Signatures of Konoplya-Zhidenko Black Holes with Various Thick Disk
Wang, Xinyu
Wang, Yukang
Zeng, Xiao-Xiong
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We investigate the imaging properties of spherically symmetric Konoplya-Zhidenko (KZ) black holes surrounded by geometrically thick accretion flows, adopting a phenomenological radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF) model and an analytical ballistic approximation accretion flow (BAAF) model. General relativistic radiative transfer is employed to compute synchrotron emission from thermal electrons and generate horizon-scale images. For the RIAF model, we analyze the dependence of image morphology on the deformation parameter, observing frequency, and flow dynamics. The photon ring and central dark region expand with increasing deformation parameter, with brightness asymmetries arising at high inclinations and depending on flow dynamics and emission anisotropy. The BAAF disk produces narrower rings and darker centers, while polarization patterns trace the brightness distribution and vary with viewing angle and deformation, revealing spacetime structure. These results demonstrate that intensity and polarization in thick-disk models provide probes of KZ black holes and near-horizon accretion physics.
title Imaging and Polarimetric Signatures of Konoplya-Zhidenko Black Holes with Various Thick Disk
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17906