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Properties of blueshifted light rays in quasispherical Szekeres metrics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-04-04 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

This paper is a follow-up on two previous ones, in which properties of blueshifted rays were investigated in Lema\^{\i}tre - Tolman (L-T) and quasispherical Szekeres (QSS) spacetimes. In the present paper, an axially symmetric QSS deformation is superposed on such an L-T background that was proved, in the first paper, to mimic several properties of gamma-ray bursts. The present model makes zz closer to 1-1 than in the background L-T spacetime, and, as implied by the second paper, strong blueshifts exist in it only along two opposite directions. The QSS region is matched into a Friedmann background. The Big Bang (BB) function tB(r)t_B(r), which is constant in the Friedmann region, has a gate-shaped hump in the QSS region. Since a QSS island generates stronger blueshifts than an L-T island, the BB hump can be made lower - then it is further removed from the observer and implies a smaller observed angular radius of the source. Consequently, more sources can be fitted into the sky - all these facts are confirmed by numerical computations. Null geodesics reaching present observers from different directions relative to the BB hump are numerically calculated. Patterns of redshift across the image of the source and along the rays are displayed.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1704.08145,
  title  = {Properties of blueshifted light rays in quasispherical Szekeres metrics},
  author = {Andrzej Krasiński},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08145},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

17 pages, 12 figures. Most references to gamma-ray bursts removed at the insistence of the referee, with the implications unchanged. Title changed. Old Fig. 2 removed. Tables I, III and IV recalculated, and Figs. 4, 5, and 7 - 10 redrawn to correct a numerical error; this did not influence any conclusions. The current text matches the published version