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Strong gravitational lensing by braneworld black holes

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we use the strong field limit approach to investigate the gravitational lensing properties of braneworld black holes. Applying this method to the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the lensing observables for some candidate braneworld black hole metrics are compared with those for the standard Schwarzschild case. It is found that braneworld black holes could have significantly different observational signatures to the Schwarzschild black hole.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411786,
  title  = {Strong gravitational lensing by braneworld black holes},
  author = {Richard Whisker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411786},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX4; v2 reference added; v3 minor technical correction