Can we distinguish black holes from naked singularities by the images of their accretion disks?

Abstract

We study here images of thin accretion disks around black holes and two classes of naked singularity spacetimes and compare these scenarios. The naked singularity models which have photon spheres have single accretion disk with its inner edge lying outside the photon sphere. The images and shadows created by these models mimic those of black holes. It follows, therefore, that further and more detailed analysis of the images and shadows structure in such case is needed to confirm or otherwise the existence of an event horizon for the compact objects such as the galactic centers. However, naked singularity models which do not have any photon spheres can have either double disks or a single disk extending up to the singularity. The images obtained from such models significantly differ from those of black holes. Moreover, the images of the two classes of naked singularities in this latter case, differ also from one another, thereby allowing them to be distinguish from one another through the observation of the images.

arXiv comment21 pages, 3 figures, published in JCAP

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