Shadow cast and deflection of light by charged rotating regular black holes

Rahul Kumar, Sushant G. Ghosh, and Anzhong Wang
Phys. Rev. D 100, 124024 – Published 10 December 2019

Abstract

We discuss the horizon properties, shadow cast, and the weak gravitational lensing of charged rotating regular black holes, which in addition to mass (M) and rotation parameter (a) have an electric charge (Q) and magnetic charge (g). The considered regular black holes are the generalization of the Kerr (Q=g=0) and Kerr-Newman (g=0) black holes. Interestingly, for a given parameter set, the apparent size of the shadow monotonically decreases and the shadow gets more distorted with increasing charge parameter Q. We put constraints on the black hole parameters with the aid of recent M87* shadow observation. The conserved quantities associated with the rotating regular black holes are calculated and also a brief description of the weak gravitational lensing using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem is presented. Interestingly, the deflection angle decreases with the charge of the black hole. Our results vis-à-vis go over to the Kerr and Kerr-Newman black holes in the appropriate limits.

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  • Received 25 October 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.124024

© 2019 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

Rahul Kumar1,*, Sushant G. Ghosh1,2,†, and Anzhong Wang3,4,‡

  • 1Center for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 110025, India
  • 2Astrophysics and Cosmology Research Unit, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag 54001, Durban 4000, South Africa
  • 3GCAP-CASPER, Physics Department, Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76798-7316, USA
  • 4Institute for Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310032, China

  • *rahul.phy3@gmail.com
  • sghosh2@jmi.ac.in, sgghosh@gmail.com
  • anzhong_wang@baylor.edu

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Vol. 100, Iss. 12 — 15 December 2019

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