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Time delay and magnification centroid due to gravitational lensing by black holes and naked singularities
Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, v 77(12), 124014
01 Jun 2008
Abstract
We model the massive dark object at the center of the Galaxy as a Schwarzschild black hole as well as Janis-Newman-Winicour naked singularities, characterized by the mass and scalar charge parameters, and study gravitational lensing (particularly time delay, magnification centroid, and total magnification) by them. We find that the lensing features are qualitatively similar (though quantitatively different) for Schwarzschild black holes, weakly naked, and marginally strongly naked singularities. However, the lensing characteristics of strongly naked singularities are qualitatively very different from those due to Schwarzschild black holes. The images produced by Schwarzschild black hole lenses and weakly naked and marginally strongly naked singularity lenses always have positive time delays. On the other hand, strongly naked singularity lenses can give rise to images with positive, zero, or negative time delays. In particular, for a large angular source position the direct image (the outermost image on the same side as the source) due to strongly naked singularity lensing always has a negative time delay. We also found that the scalar field decreases the time delay and increases the total magnification of images; this result could have important implications for cosmology. As the Janis-Newman-Winicour metric also describes the exterior gravitational field of a scalar star, naked singularities as well as scalar star lenses, if these exist in nature, will serve as more efficient cosmic telescopes than regular gravitational lenses.
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- Title
- Time delay and magnification centroid due to gravitational lensing by black holes and naked singularities
- Creators
- K. S. Virbhadra - University of the SciencesC. R. Keeton - University of the Sciences
- Publication Details
- Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, v 77(12), 124014
- Publisher
- Amer Physical Soc
- Number of pages
- 13
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Mathematics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000257290600074
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-44949091353
- Other Identifier
- 991021866372004721
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