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Hunting for extra dimensions in the shadow of Sagittarius A*

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-05-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Recently, Vagnozzi and Visinelli's work [Phys. Rev. D 100, 024020 (2020)] reveals that M87*'s shadow establishes an upper limit of l170l \lesssim 170 AU, where ll is the AdS5_5 curvature radius and 1 AU is one astronomical unit. The Event Horizon Telescope, on the other hand, just captured the first image of the shadow of Sagittarius A* (SgrA*), the Galactic center source associated with a supermassive black hole. In this paper, we are motivated to comprehensively explore a new upper limit of ll with the shadow of SgrA*, and the findings suggest that l0.097l \lesssim 0.097 AU. Our results improve accuracy by three orders of magnitude. This is also one of the first quantifiable limitations on exotic physics derived from the remarkable first image of the shadow of SgrA*.

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@article{arxiv.2205.07207,
  title  = {Hunting for extra dimensions in the shadow of Sagittarius A*},
  author = {Di Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.07207},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

According to arXiv:2205.11314, the limit $\Delta C \lesssim 10%$ in my introduction have not been quoted for Sgr A*'s image as explicitly discussed by the EHT collaboration, so the overall assumption of the quadrupolemoment $\epsilon \lesssim 4$ for Sgr A* is not applicable