2019•Physical review. D/Physical review. D.Open access

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

Rahul Kumar, Sushant G. Ghosh, Anzhong Wang

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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-\`a-vis go over to the Kerr and Kerr-Newman black holes in the appropriate limits.

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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-\`a-vis go over to the Kerr and Kerr-Newman black holes in the appropriate limits.

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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-\`a-vis go over to the Kerr and Kerr-Newman black holes in the appropriate limits.

Key concepts: Physics, Rotating black hole, Black hole (networking), Charged black hole, Gravitational lens, Deflection (physics), Extremal black hole, Electric charge

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