New light rings from multiple critical curves as observational signatures of black hole mimickers
arXiv:2110.10002 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137045
Abstract
We argue that the appearance of additional light rings in a shadow observation - beyond the infinite sequence of exponentially demagnified self-similar rings foreseen in the Kerr solution - would make a compelling case for the existence of black hole mimickers having multiple critical curves. We support this claim by discussing three different scenarios of spherically symmetric wormhole geometries having two such critical curves, and explicitly work out the optical appearance of one such object when surrounded by an optically and geometrically thin accretion disk.
6 pages, 5 figures
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