Analytic Kerr black hole lensing for equatorial observers in the strong deflection limit

Details Analytic Kerr black hole lensing for equatorial observers in the strong deflection limit Analytic Kerr black hole lensing for equatorial observers in the strong deflection limit

2005-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0507137v2

Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 083003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

19 pages, 9 figures, published on Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.72.083003

In this paper we present an analytical treatment of gravitational lensing by Kerr black holes in the limit of very large deflection angles, restricting to observers in the equatorial plane. We accomplish our objective starting from the Schwarzschild black hole and adding corrections up to second order in the black hole spin. This is sufficient to provide a full description of all caustics and the inversion of lens mapping for sources near them. On the basis of these formulae we argue that relativistic images of Low Mass X-ray Binaries around Sgr A* are very likely to be seen by future X-ray interferometry missions.

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