Abstract
General relativity predicts that gravitational lensing near black holes will produce narrow "photon rings"on images. Building on recent work of Johnson, Lupsasca et al. focusing on circular rings, I calculate the long-baseline interferometric signature of a narrow feature of arbitrary shape and intensity. The shape information is contained in the oscillation frequencies of the complex visibility as a function of baseline length, for each baseline angle. These results raise the possibility of measuring the detailed shape of a photon ring and comparing to the precise predictions of general relativity.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 044017 |
Journal | Physical Review D |
Volume | 102 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 15 2020 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)