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CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
卷 27, 期 20, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/20/205006
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- JSPS [22740147]
- World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22740147] Funding Source: KAKEN
Within 5-10 years, very long baseline interferometry facilities will be able to observe the 'shadow' of super-massive black hole candidates. This will allow us, for the first time, to test gravity in the strong field regime. In this paper, we numerically study the photon orbits in the delta = 2 Tomimatsu-Sato spacetime. The delta = 2 Tomimatsu-Sato spacetime is a stationary, axisymmetric and asymptotically flat exact solution of the vacuum Einstein equations. We compare the associated shadow with the one of Kerr black holes. The shape of the shadow in the delta = 2 Tomimatsu-Sato spacetime is oblate and the difference between the two axes can be as high as 6% when viewed on the equatorial plane. We argue that future space sub-mm interferometers (e.g. VSOP-3) may distinguish the two cases, and thus are able to test the cosmic censorship conjecture.
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