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QED Effect on Black Hole Shadow

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-03-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In this work, taking the QED effect into account, we investigate the shadows of the static black hole with magnetic monopoles and neutral black holes in magnetic fields through the numerical backward ray-tracing method. For a static black holes with magnetic monopole, we obtain the relation between the shadow radius and the coupling constant. For neutral black holes in the uniform magnetic fields, we find that the shadow curves deviate very small from the ellipses for equatorial observer, and we read the linear relation between the eccentricity and the coupling constant. For θoπ/2\theta_o\neq\pi/2, we find that the shadow curves can be well approximated by ellipses in most cases, except the case that the magnetic field is very strong and the observer sits around the angle θo=π/4\theta_o=\pi/4 or 3π/43\pi/4. Moreover we extend our investigation to a neutral static black hole surrounded with a current loop.

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@article{arxiv.2012.07022,
  title  = {QED Effect on Black Hole Shadow},
  author = {Zezhou Hu and Zhen Zhong and Peng-Cheng Li and Minyong Guo and Bin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.07022},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

27 pages and 14 figures, some references added

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