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Weak deflection angle of a dirty black hole

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-07-21 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we present the weak deflection angle in a Schwarzschild black hole of mass mm surrounded by the dark matter of mass MM and thickness Δrs\Delta r_{s}. The Gauss-Bonnet theorem, formulated for asymptotic spacetimes, is found to be ill-behaved in the third-order of 1/Δrs1/\Delta r_{s} for very large Δrs\Delta r_{s}. Using the finite-distance for the radial locations of the source and the receiver, we derived the expression for the weak deflection angle up to the third-order of 1/Δrs1/\Delta r_{s} using Ishihara (\textit{et al.}) method. The result showed that the required dark matter thickness is 23mM\sim2\sqrt{3mM} for the deviations in the weak deflection angle to occur. Such thickness requirement is better by a factor of 2 as compared to the deviations in the shadow radius (3mM\sim\sqrt{3mM}). It implies that the use of the weak deflection angle in detecting dark matter effects in one's galaxy is better than using any deviations in the shadow radius.

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@article{arxiv.2003.00764,
  title  = {Weak deflection angle of a dirty black hole},
  author = {Reggie C. Pantig and Emmanuel T. Rodulfo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.00764},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure; expressions in section 4 simplified thoroughly; accepted for publication in Chinese Journal of Physics

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