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Rotating regular black holes in conformal massive gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-02-18 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we use a suitable conformal rescaling to construct static and rotating regular black holes in conformal massive gravity. The new metric is characterized by the mass MM, the "scalar charge" QQ, the angular momentum parameter aa, the "hair parameter" λ\lambda, and the conformal scale factor encoded in the parameter LL. We explore the shadow images and the deflection angles of relativistic massive particles in the spacetime geometry of a rotating regular black hole. For λ0\lambda \neq 0 and Q>0Q > 0, the shadow is larger than the shadow of a Kerr black hole. In particular, if λ<0\lambda < 0, the shadow radius increases considerably. For λ0\lambda \neq 0 and Q<0Q < 0, the shadow is smaller than the shadow of a Kerr black hole. Additionally we put observational constraints on the parameter Q Q using the latest Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observation of the supermassive black hole M87*. Lastly, using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, we show that the deflection angle of massive particles is strongly affected by the parameter LL. The deflection angle might be used to distinguish rotating regular black holes from rotating singular black holes.

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@article{arxiv.1911.07520,
  title  = {Rotating regular black holes in conformal massive gravity},
  author = {Kimet Jusufi and Mubasher Jamil and Hrishikesh Chakrabarty and Qiang Wu and Cosimo Bambi and Anzhong Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.07520},
  year   = {2020}
}

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17 pages, 28 figures, Accepted for Publication (Phys.Rev.D)

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