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Strong gravitational lensing in a squashed Kaluza-Klein G\"{o}del black hole

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-03-18 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing in a squashed Kaluza-Klein black hole immersed in the G\"{o}del universe with global rotation. Our result show that the strong gravitational lensing in the squashed Kaluza-Klein G\"{o}del black hole spacetime has some distinct behaviors from that in the Kerr case. In the squashed Kaluza-Klein G\"{o}del black hole spacetime, the photon sphere radius, the minimum impact parameter, the coefficient aˉ\bar{a}, bˉ\bar{b} and the deflection angle α(θ)\alpha(\theta) in the ϕ\phi direction are independent of whether the photon goes with or against the global rotation of the G\"{o}del Universe. While in the Kerr black hole, the values of these quantities for the prograde photons are different from those for the retrograde photons. Moreover, the coefficient of bˉ\bar{b} increases with jj in the squashed Kaluza-Klein G\"{o}del black hole, but decreases with aa in the Kerr case. We also probe the influence of the squashed effect on the strong gravitational lensing in this black hole and find that in the extremely squashed case ρ0=0\rho_0=0, the coefficient aˉ\bar{a} is a constant 1 and is independent of the global rotation of the G\"{o}del Universe. Furthermore, we assume that the gravitational field of the supermassive central object of the Galaxy can be described by this metric and estimate the numerical values of the coefficients and the main observables in the strong gravitational lensing.

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@article{arxiv.1102.0086,
  title  = {Strong gravitational lensing in a squashed Kaluza-Klein G\"{o}del black hole},
  author = {Songbai Chen and Yue Liu and Jiliang Jing},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.0086},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D