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Optical Appearance of the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson Black Hole with a Magnetically Driven Synchrotron Emissivity Model

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2026-05-12 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate the optical appearance of a Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson (Kerr-BR) black hole illuminated by a geometrically and optically thin accretion disk. Instead of using a phenomenological power-law emissivity, we adopt a magnetically driven synchrotron emissivity proxy coupled to the local electromagnetic environment. With a backward ray-tracing framework, we examine the effects of the spin aa, magnetic parameter BB, and observer inclination θO\theta_O on the ray-classification maps, redshift distributions, and specific-intensity images. We show that the ISCO position is modified by both aa and BB, and that rapidly rotating prograde configurations can develop an additional model-dependent inner cutoff when the magnetically dominated approximation underlying the emissivity prescription ceases to be applicable. High-resolution one-dimensional intensity profiles further separate the direct image, the n=1n=1 lensing-ring contribution, and the higher-order n2n\geq 2 photon-ring subimages, while quantifying the Doppler-induced brightness asymmetry. Retrograde disks exhibit a wider emission-depleted central region because of the outwardly shifted ISCO, making the higher-order lensed components more clearly distinguishable from the direct emission. These results show that the disk inner boundary and the magnetic-field-dependent emissivity can substantially influence the observable appearance of Kerr-BR black holes.

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@article{arxiv.2605.09593,
  title  = {Optical Appearance of the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson Black Hole with a Magnetically Driven Synchrotron Emissivity Model},
  author = {Zeng-Yi Zhang and Xiang-Qian Li and Hao-Peng Yan and Xiao-Jun Yue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.09593},
  year   = {2026}
}

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29 pages, 10 figures