Abstract
We construct the light escape cones of isotropic spot sources of radiation residing in special classes of reference frames in the Kerr–de Sitter (KdS) black hole spacetimes, namely in the fundamental class of ‘non-geodesic’ locally non-rotating reference frames (LNRFs), and two classes of ‘geodesic’ frames, the radial geodesic frames (RGFs), both falling and escaping, and the frames related to the circular geodesic orbits (CGFs). We compare the cones constructed in a given position for the LNRFs, RGFs, and CGFs. We have shown that the photons locally counter-rotating relative to LNRFs with positive impact parameter and negative covariant energy are confined to the ergosphere region. Finally, we demonstrate that the light escaping cones govern the shadows of black holes located in front of a radiating screen, as seen by the observers in the considered frames. For shadows related to distant static observers the LNRFs are relevant.
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1 Introduction
Cosmological observations indicate that recent accelerated expansion of the Universe is governed by a dark energy that can be represented by a very small relict vacuum energy (repulsive cosmological constant \(\Lambda > 0\)), or by a quintessential field [1, 2, 6, 14, 23, 25, 48, 51, 57, 92]. The dark energy represents about \(70\%\) of the energy content of the observable universe [13, 64] and the dark energy equation of state is very close to those corresponding to the vacuum energy [13]. Therefore, it is worth to study the astrophysical effects of the recently observed relict cosmological constant implied by the cosmological tests to be \(\Lambda \approx 1.3\times 10^{-56}\,\mathrm {cm^{-2}}\), with the related vacuum energy \(\rho _{\mathrm {vac}} \sim 10^{-29}\,\mathrm {g/cm^{3}}\) that is close to the critical density of the Universe. We can consider even much larger values of \(\Lambda \), which could be related to very early stages of the evolution of the Universe.
The repulsive cosmological constant alters significantly the asymptotic spacetime structure of black holes, naked singularities and superspinars, or any gravitationally bounded configurations, as such backgrounds become asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes, rather than flat, and an event horizon (cosmological horizon) always exists, behind which the geometry is dynamic, if the vacuum region around such an object is extended enough [67].
Significant influence of the repulsive cosmological constant has been demonstrated for both Keplerian and toroidal fluid accretion disks related to active galactic nuclei and their central supermassive black holes [36, 43, 52, 56, 63, 69, 78, 79, 86, 88]. The spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes with the \(\Lambda \) term are described by the vacuum Schwarzschild–de Sitter (SdS) geometry [37, 74]. Their relevance has been discussed in [3,4,5, 24, 26, 67]. The internal, uniform density SdS spacetimes are studied in [12, 68] and polytropic configurations in [77, 84]. The axially symmetric, rotating black holes are governed by the Kerr-de Sitter (KdS) geometry [16, 27]. Motion of photons in the SdS and KdS spacetimes was studied for special cases in [7, 30, 44, 46, 60, 61, 73, 75, 91], while motion of massive test particles was studied in [18, 19, 31, 33, 35, 38,39,40,41,42, 45, 47, 50, 62, 66, 74, 76, 81, 85]. Note that the KdS geometry can be relevant also for the so called Kerr superspinars representing an alternative to black holes inspired by String theory [28, 29, 82], breaking the black hole bound on the dimensionless spin, and exhibiting extraordinary physical phenomena [11, 20, 21, 32, 65, 72, 80, 82, 83]. Moreover, the SdS and KdS spacetimes are equivalent to some solutions of the f(R) gravity representing black holes and naked singularities [49, 87].
Recently, we have studied in detail the general photon motion in the Kerr–de Sitterblack hole and naked singularity spacetimes, giving the effective potentials of the latitudinal and radial photon motion and discussing the properties of the spherical photon orbits [17], generalizing thus the previous work concentrated on the properties of the equatorial photon motion [75].Footnote 1 Here we use the properties of the effective potentials of the general photon motion, and construct local escape cones of photons radiated by point sources located at rest in the most significant local reference frames, namely, the locally non-rotating frames, radial geodesic frames, and circular geodesic frames. We concentrate here on the three classes of the KdS black hole spacetimes according to classification introduced in [17], in the case of circular geodesic systems we restrict our attention to the marginally stable geodesics of both corotating and counter-rotating type. Note that the construction of the escape light cones is very important, being a crucial ingredient of calculations of wide range of the optical phenomena arising in vicinity of black holes, as appearance of Keplerian or toroidal disks and related profiled spectral lines, as viewed by distant observers; note however that also the self-occult effect could be significant is such situations, as shown in [8].
The light escape cones also directly govern the shadow (silhouette) of a black hole located between an observer and a radiating screen. Of special observational interest are the effects expected in vicinity of the supermassive black hole in the Galaxy centre object Sgr A* that were extensively discussed in a large series of papers – see, e. g., [22, 34, 93,94,95,96,97]. The shadow can be defined for any orbiting or falling (escaping) observer, but from the astrophysical and observational point of view the most relevant are shadows related to distant static observers that could be represented by distant locally non-rotating observers [58]. However, in the KdS black hole spacetimes the free static observers are expected near the so called static radius [66, 85] representing the outermost region of gravitationally bound systems in Universe with accelerated expansion [24, 69, 77], while behind the static radius the radially escaping geodesic observer is a more appropriate choice.
2 Motion of test particles and photons in Kerr–de Sitter spacetimes
In the standard Boyer–Lindquist coordinates with geometrical units (\(c = G = 1\)) the line element in the Kerr–de Sitter geometry is given by
The source body has mass M and angular momentum per unit mass a, the cosmological constant \(\Lambda \) is present in the parameter \(y = \frac{1}{3}\Lambda M^2\) in terms of the line elements. If we use dimensionless quantities by transition \(s/M \rightarrow s\), \(t/M \rightarrow t, r/M \rightarrow r, a/M \rightarrow a,\) then
The event horizons of the Kerr–de Sitter geometry are given by
The geodetic motion of test particles and photons is described by the Carter equations [16]
where
Here \(\frac{\,\mathrm {d}x^{\mu }}{\mathrm {d}\lambda }=p^{\mu }\) is the particle four-momentum, m is its rest mass, energy
and axial angular momentum
are constants of motion following, respectively, from the time and axial symmetry of present geometry. The quantity \({{\mathcal {K}}}\) is fourth Carter’s constant, connected with a hidden symmetry of the Kerr–de Sitter spacetime. The affine parameter \(\lambda \) is normalized such that
The four-momentum of photons (\(m=0\)) we shall denote \(k^{\mu }\). The discussion of general off-equatorial photon motion in the Kerr–de Sitter spacetimes has been performed in [17] by method of so called ‘effective potentials’, where a new constants of motion X, q were introduced by the relations
and
The motion constant \(\ell \) can be considered as impact parameter of the photon, and the motion constant q is constructed in such a way that for photons confined to the equatorial plane takes the value \(q=0\). The functions in (7), (8) then read
These functions determine effective potentials governing the motion of test particles and photons, as discussed in detail in [17]. In the following, we use these effective potentials to determine the local light escape cones constructed for most relevant families of reference frames related to astrophysically significant sources (observers). As basic, locally non-rotating frames (LNRFs) are considered that give the simplest view of physical phenomena in KdS spacetimes, as they properly balance the effect of spacetime dragging [9]. Then we consider the reference frames that could be considered as most important and representative from the astrophysical point of view: radial geodesic frames (RGFs), and circular geodesic frames (CGFs). Here we restrict our attention to the reference frames moving in the vicinity of the event horizons of the KdS spacetimes. The light escape cones constructed in such reference frames play crucial role in treating the observationally relevant optical phenomena; e.g., in the case of the CGFs they are relevant in modelling optical effects related to the Keplerian accretion disks [80]. Note that for distant nearly static observers the light escape cones represent the shape of the black hole shadow [9, 58, 80].
3 Light escape cones in locally non-rotating frames
The locally non-rotating reference frames (LNRF) are in general regarded as the most natural platform for description of optical effects and motion of test particles in axially symmetric spacetimes. The reason is that the observer in rest relatively to the LNRF sees the \(+\phi \) and \(-\phi \) directions as being equivalent [9]. We therefore start our investigations from the perspective of the observers sending photons in various directions in the LNRF and compare the obtained results with that received in other reference frames.
3.1 Tetrad of basis vectors
The locally non-rotating observer maintains constant radial coordinate (e. g., by means of rocket engines) and let himself to be dragged by the rotation of the spacetime in azimuthal direction with angular velocity
relative to static distant observers. Using the metric coefficients from (1) we obtain
where
The orthonormal tetrad of basis vectors of such observers reads
and the corresponding dual 1-forms are
The coordinate components of the photon four-momentum are given by Eqs. (7)–(10), together with (20), (21), their projections onto the tetrads determine the locally measured components
The orthonormality of the tetrads ensures that these quantities are associated by relations
3.2 Definition of directional angles
We use the standard definition of directional angles \(\alpha , \beta , \gamma \) of a photon in a local frame of reference, which are connected with the frame components of the photon four-momentum by expressions (for details see, e.g., [80])
Further, there is a correspondence between these locally measured components and the constants of motion due to the relations
and
where the connection with the frame components is provided by
3.3 Effective potentials of the photon motion and their relation to directional angles
Through the Eqs. (35)–(41) we can therefore relate the locally measured directional angles of the photon with its constants of motion and vice versa.
The dependence of the directional angle \(\alpha \), which is the rate of deviation from the radial direction on these constants, can be obtained from the expression (35) by substitution
where the plus (minus) sign has to be taken for the outgoing (ingoing) photon. The turning points of the radial motion are governed by the effective potentials
their properties were in detail studied in [17]. Clearly, for \(X=X_{\pm }(r;\,q,\,y,\,a)\), there is \(\alpha =\pi /2\).
The inverse relation expressing at given radial coordinate r the parameter X in dependence on the directional angle \(\alpha \) of an observer can be derived combining definitions (18) and equalities (38), (39), which yield
or
alternatively. We see that the value \(X=-a\) (respectively \(\ell =0\)) implies \(\alpha =0, \pi ,\) which corresponds to pure radial motion, or, in more general case, \(\beta =0, \pi ,\) corresponding to photons crossing the polar axis, eventually released from the polar axis (\(\theta =0, \pi \)).
Further, in order to construct the light escape cones, we have to express the directional angle \(\beta \) in dependence on the conserved quantities X, q. Using the relation (36), and appropriate identities of this section, one can write
The Eq. (47), which is equivalent to (44), represents the rate of motion in the azimuthal direction in such a way that its positive sign corresponds to prograde photons, while the negative sign to retrograde ones. Identical expression defines the photon azimuthal motion component of spherical orbits in [17] (see the definition for \(\sin \Psi \)), where it is shown that in the ergosphere, there exist photons with positive impact parameter \(X\ge X_{+}>0\) appearing to be retrograde in LNRFs. This is seen in the behaviour of the function \(X(\alpha )\) in (44), when the appropriate photons have directional angle \(\alpha \) in interval \(\alpha \in \langle -\alpha _{d},\alpha _{d}\rangle \). Here \(\pm ~\alpha _{d}\) are points of divergence of \(X(\alpha ),\) symmetrically placed with respect to \(\alpha = 3\pi /2\). Such situation occurs also in the case of Kerr–Newman–de Sitter spacetimes (see [75]). The angle \(\alpha _{d}\) occurs for latitudinal coordinate \(\theta \in \langle \theta _{m}; \pi - \theta _{m} \rangle ,\) where \(\theta _{m}\) is the marginal latitudinal coordinate defining the boundary of the ergosphere at given radial coordinate \(r_{e}\) following from the condition \(g_{tt}=0\). The marginal latitude reads
The dependence of the function \(X(\alpha )\) on the latitudinal coordinate of the source is demonstrated in Fig. 1. Because we deal with the spatial cones, the angle \(\alpha \) runs from 0 to \(\pi \). It is then appropriate to present couples of graphs constructed for \(\beta \) differing by \(\pi ,\) which cover complete revolution of photon’s three-momentum \(\mathbf {k}\) in the particular plane. The absolute value of \(X(\alpha )\) at given \(\alpha \) increases with increasing absolute value of \(\sin \beta ,\) and the divergent points \(\alpha _{d},\) where the function \(X(\alpha )\) diverges, first occurs, if varying \(\beta ,\) for \(\beta =3\pi /2\). This is also the angle for which the relation (48) is valid.
In [17] we have justified that the locally retrograde photons with positive impact parameter X must have negative energy E, hence, it is worth to devote some attention to the properties of the ergosphere, which is illustrated in Fig. 2. In the spacetimes with divergent repulsive barrier (DRB) of the radial motion (see [71] for details), the ergosphere consists of two surfaces (see Fig. 2a) – one being just above to the outer black hole horizon, the latter being located in the vicinity of the cosmological horizon. It is most extended in the equatorial plane, where the inner surface reaches the radii \(r_{d1}\), while the outer spreads from \(r_{d2}\) to the cosmological horizon. Here \(r_{d1,2}\) denote the divergent points of the effective potential \(X_{+}\). These radii coalesce for the marginal spacetime parameters \((a^2, y_{max(d)}(a^2))\) (see the definition in [17]), for which the barrier just becomes restricted, into the value \(r_{d(ex)},\) where \(r_{d(ex)}\) denotes the divergent point of the function \(X_{(ex)}(r;\,y,\,a),\) and both surfaces touch each other in the equatorial plane (Fig. 2b). In the spacetimes with restricted repulsive barrier (RRB) of the radial photon motion, the ergosphere fills the whole region between the outer and cosmological horizon along the equatorial plane, while the region of possible static observers shrinks to the polar axis (Fig. 2c, d). We could intuitively expect such extension of the ergosphere as consequence of large value of the spin parameter, which strengthens the dragging of the spacetime by the rotation of the gravitating body, or large value of the cosmological parameter, which compensates the gravitational attraction at larger distances, while the dragging survives.
3.4 Construction of the light escape cones
The light escape cones are given by directional angles, for which the photon released by emitter (source) at position with given radial and latitudinal coordinates (\(r_{e},\) \(\theta _{e}\)) reaches some unstable spherical orbit with radius \(r_{sph}\). The relations (42), (46), (47), which we use for computation of these angles, thus have to be calculated for \(r=r_{e},\) \(\theta =\theta _{e}\) and parameters \(q=q_{sph}\), \(X=X_{sph},\) where
is the value of q, for which one of the potentials \(X_{\pm }(r)\) has extreme at point \(r_{sph},\) and
is the value of that extreme, i.e., local maximum of \(X_{+},\) or local minimum of \(X_{-}\). The function \(q_{ex}(r;\,y,\,a^2),\) which determines the loci of local extrema of the potentials \(X_{\pm },\) reads [17]
The function in (50) is a projection of local extrema of potentials \(X_{\pm }(r)\) onto a hyperplane orthogonal to q-axis, therefore,
For fixed spacetime parameters \(y, a^2\), the curve \((X_{sph},q_{sph})\) forms so called ‘critical locus’ (see e. g. [90]), which in the (X, q)-plane separates the region of the motion constants corresponding to photons for which a barrier is formed somewhere between the emitter and the black hole horizon (the cosmological horizon), from those corresponding to photons that move freely in the whole stationary region. It is parametrized by all permissible values of radius \(r_{sph}\) of spherical orbits that can be reached by photon released from given position \((r_{e},\theta _{e})\). The range of these orbits is confined by restrictions imposed on values X, q of a photon at given coordinate \(\theta _{e}\) that follows from the requirement on the reality of latitudinal motion. Since the reality condition \(W\ge 0\) in (8) can be expressed, using linearity in q, by inequality
we can compute the limits of the \(r_{sph}\) radii as points corresponding to intersections of the curve \(q_{min}(X;\, \theta _e,\,y,\,a)\) with the curve \((X_{sph},q_{sph})\). We therefore solve the equation
which leads to sixth-degree polynomial in radius that has to be computed numerically. For the parameter sets (a, y) corresponding to the spacetimes with DRB, the curve \((X_{sph},q_{sph})\) is concave, while for the spacetimes with RRB it is convex. However, in both cases, there are two intersections with the curve \(q_{min}\) (see the figures bellow), which result in two solutions \(r_1,r_2\) of the Eq. (54). The range of the spherical orbits are then given by \(r_1\le r_{sph}\le r_2\). Note that for \(\theta _{e}=\pi /2\), there is \(q_{min}=0,\) and the limits are the equatorial circular photon orbits \(r_{1}=r_{ph+}\) and \(r_{2}=r_{ph-},\) where \(r_{ph+}\) denotes radius of the ‘inner’ co-rotating, and \(r_{ph-}\) denotes the ‘outer’ counter-rotating photon orbit.
The restrictions for the motion constants X, q, for which the photon motion is even possible, is given by the inequality (53), together with
following from the reality condition \(R\ge 0\) in (7). The resulting parameter planes \(X-q\) of permissible motion constants are presented in some representative, qualitatively different cases in Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, together with the corresponding light escape cones modelled in 3D. Note that in all cases the rising part of the curve \((X_{sph},q_{sph})\) matches local maxima of the potential \(X_{+}(r;\,q,\,y,\,a),\) and descending part corresponds to local minima of \(X_{-}(r;\,q,\,y,\,a)\).
The final shape of the light escape cones is decisively influenced, besides the values y, a determining the geometry, by the radial position \(r_e\) of the emitting body relative to both outer black hole (\(r_{o}\)) and cosmological horizon (\({r_{c}}\)), radii of the lowest (\(r_{1}\)) and highest (\(r_{2}\)) spherical orbit, loci of divergent points (\(r_{d1},\,r_{d2}\)) of the potential \(X_+(r;\,q,\,y,\,a),\) if they exist, loci od divergent point (\(r_{d(ex)}\)) of the function \(X_{({ ex})}(r;\,,y,\,a),\) if it exists, and the latitudinal coordinate \(\theta \) related to the critical value \(\theta _{m}\). The depiction of the light escape cones in the LNRFs for all outstanding radial positions of the source we postpone to following sections, where they are presented in comparison with the cones obtained in other reference frames in combined figures. Now we construct 3D representative illustrations of the light escape cones, later, in the case of the RGFs and CGFs we give simpler 2D schematic illustrations, i.e., two-dimensional projections of these cones. The relation of 3D and 2D schemes is presented in Fig. 4. We describe construction of the light escape cones in LNRFs in detail for some typical situations, in order to give a clear representation of the construction procedure. We give special attention also to the case of the photons that are counter-rotating relative LNRFs, while having positive impact axial parameter (\(\ell > 0\)) and negative covariant energy (\(E<0\)).
4 Light escape cones in radial geodesic frames
In this section we examine the light escape cones as they appear in frames related to observers (test particles) moving radially with respect to the locally non-rotating frames, orbiting momentarily at the same radii.
4.1 Radially moving observers
First we determine conditions, under which the only non-zero locally measured component of the test particle (observer) 3-velocity relative to the corresponding LNRF is the radial one.
The locally measured components of the observer (test particle) 3-velocity, related to the LNRF, \(v^{(j)}, j=r,\theta ,\phi \), are given by the general formula
where \(u^\mu =\frac{\mathrm {d}x^\mu }{\mathrm {d}\tau }\) are coordinate components of particle’s four-velocity and \(\tau \) is its proper time related to the affine parameter by \(\tau =m \lambda \). The normalization condition (17) then takes the form
In our case, the latitudinal and radial components are of greatest importance. They are given by Carter’s Eqs. (7)–(10).
In order to simplify further discussion, it is convenient to introduce new parameters (motion constant of the test particle)
and
from which we construct another constant of motion
that has to be zero for the motion confined to equatorial plane.
In the following, we must determine constraints that have to be imposed on the above constants of motion to allow a pure radial geodesic motion with respect to the LNRF.
Clearly, the condition \(v^{(\phi )}=0\) is fulfilled if
Using (58)–(62), the Eqs. (7), (8) can be rewritten in the form
where
The condition \(v^{(\theta )}=0\) implies \(u^{\theta }= 0,\) and finally \(W'(\theta ;\,E,\,Q,\,y,\,a^2) = 0,\) which can be expressed in terms of the parameter Q by the equation
The reality condition of the latitudinal motion of a test particle with \(\Phi =0\) then reads \(Q\ge Q_{\theta }(\theta ;\,E,\,y,\,a^2)\), see also [10]. In the following discussion we restrict ourselves to angles \(0\le \theta \le \pi /2,\) since the situation is symmetric with respect to equatorial plane. Clearly, there is always one zero point of \(Q_{\theta }(\theta ;\,E,\,y,\,a^2)\) at \(\theta =\pi /2\). Another zeros are determined by
i.e., they are located at
for \(I^{-1}\le E^2\le 1\).
The function \(Q_{\theta }(\theta ;\,E,\,y,\,a^2)\) is non-negative for \(E^2\le I^{-1},\) while for \(E^2\ge 1\) it is non-positive. Its extrema are given by the condition \(\,\mathrm {d}Q_{\theta }/\,\mathrm {d}\theta =0,\) which is fulfilled for \(\theta =0,\pi /2\) and at loci given by
Verifying the value \(\,\mathrm {d}^2Q_{\theta }/\,\mathrm {d}\theta ^2\;|_{\theta =0, \pi /2},\) we find that at \(\theta =0\) the function takes minimum (maximum) for \(E^2>I\; (E^2<I),\) while at \(\theta =\pi /2\) there is minimum (maximum) for \(E^2<I^{-1}\;(E^2>I^{-1})\). Here
Note that for \(a^2=0\) or \(y=0\) the functions \(E^2_{z(\theta )}(\theta ;\; y,\;a^2),\) \(E^2_{ex(\theta )}(\theta ;\;y,\;a^2),\) degenerate to constant value \(E^2=1\) and \(Q_{\theta }(\theta ;\,E,\,y,\,a^2)\) then yields \(Q=0\). All these functions are depicted for some representative values of its parameters in Fig. 10.
It can be shown by the perturbation analysis that the local minima of the function \(Q_{\theta }(\theta ;\,E,\,y,\,a^2)\) correspond to constant latitudes on which the particle persists stably during its radial fall towards the outer black hole horizon or radial escape towards the cosmological horizon. The motion constants of such stable pure radial motion and the appropriate latitudes \(\theta _{0}\) are therefore mutually bound by the relations
The case \(I^{-1}\le E^2\le I\) in (71) is equivalent to relations
Evidently, for spacetime parameters \(y=0,\) or \(a^2=0,\) the relations (72), (73) yield well known results \(E^2=1,\) \(Q=0\) for any latitude \(\theta _{0}\) [70]. In the following we shall decide, whether some of these constants allow any turning points of the radial motion, that is, the radii at which a particle, if freely released, originate its stable radial fall with respect to the LNRF, or, if equilibrium points located at stationary radii (unstable or stable) are allowed. The turning points are determined by the condition \(R'(r;\,E,\,Q,\,y,\,a^2)=0,\) or, alternatively, by
We focus on the behaviour of this function between the outer black hole (\(r_{o}\)) and cosmological (\(r_{c}\)) horizons. Apparently, \(Q_{r}(r;\,E^2,\,y,\,a^2) \rightarrow \infty \) as \(r \rightarrow r_{o}\) from above, or \(r \rightarrow r_{c}\) from bellow. According to (71), the stable radial motion of constant latitude exists only for \(Q \le 0\) and \(E^2 \ge I^{-1},\) we therefore have to determine zeros of the function in (74) designating the turning points in the equatorial plane. They are given by
The denominator of this function is always positive for \(y>0,\) hence its zeros coincide with loci of the event horizons and in the stationary regions it is positive. It can be shown that it always holds \(E^2_{z(eq)}(r;\,y,\,a^2)<I^{-1}\) for \(y>0,\) therefore, there are no turning points of the radial motion, except for the equatorial plane \(\theta _{o}=\pi /2\). If \(y=0,\) then
The local extrema can be expressed from the condition
by the equation
The curve \(y_{ex(z(eq))}(r;\,a^2)\) determines radii \(r_{eq}(a^2,y)\) of unstable equatorial circular orbits of particles with zero angular momentum. Note that in the case of pure Schwarzschild–de Sitter spacetime (\(a=0\)) the solution of (76) yields \(y=1/r^3,\) i.e., loci of the so called static radius \(r_{s}=1/\root 3 \of {y}\). The common points of the function \(y_{ex(z(eq))}(r;\,a^2)\) and \(y_{h}(r;\,a^2),\) which determines the loci of the spacetime horizons, are determined by
which is identical with the solution of the equation \(\partial y_{h}(r;\,a^2)/\partial r =0\). Hence, the intersections and the local extrema of the function \(y_{h}(r;\,a^2)\), if they exist, coincide, and there are no other intersections of these curves. In the stationary regions it is \(y_{ex(z(eq))}(r;\,a^2)<y_{h}(r;\,a^2)\). The asymptotic behaviour is given by
For completeness,
The behaviour of the characteristic functions \(y_{ex(z(eq))}(r;\,a^2),\) \(E^2_{z(eq)}(r;\,y,\,a^2)\) and \(Q_{r}(r;\,E^2,\,y,\,a^2),\) which is shown for some representative values of parameters \(a^2,\) y and \(E^2\) in Figs. 11 and 12, suggests that in the field of the KdS black hole spacetimes there always exists one equatorial circular orbit of a test particles with \(Q=0, L=0\) and \(E^2=E^2_{z(eq),max},\) corresponding to the local maximum of (75). For particles with \(0<E^2<E^2_{z(eq),max}\) there exist trajectories with either one turning point above the outer black hole horizon, or one under the cosmological horizon. These turning points enclose a forbidden region, which extends to both horizons as \(E^2\rightarrow 0\).
We can summarize that there are no turning points of the stable pure radial motion for trajectories of constant latitude with \(\theta _{0}\ne \pi /2,\) since they are given by the local minima \(Q_{\theta (min)}<0\) of \(Q_{\theta }(\theta ;\,E,\,y,\,a^2),\) which occur for \(E^2>I^{-1},\) but \(Q_{r}(r;E^2,y,a^2)>0\) for \(E^2>I^{-1}\). In the equatorial plane, such turning points occur for \(Q=Q_{\theta ,min}=0\) in the vicinity of the event horizons for particles with small enough energies \(E^2\le E^2_{z(eq),max}<I^{-1}\).
At the spin axis, there can exist some turning points of an unstable radial motion of test particles with motion constants \(Q=Q_{\theta ,max}>0,\) \(0\le E^2 \le E^2_{z(ax)}\). Here we denoted by \(Q_{\theta ,max}\) local maxima of the function \(Q_{\theta }(\theta ;\,E,\,y,\,a^2)\) at \(\theta =0,\pi ,\) which read \(Q_{\theta ,max}=a^2(1-E^2)\) and \(E^2_{z(ax)}\) is a solution of the equation \(Q_{r}(r;E^2,y,a^2)=a^2(1-E^2),\) which yields
The function \(E^2_{z(ax)}\) determines the turning points of the unstable radial motion along the spin axis. Its local maxima, given by the function
determines the radial coordinate \(r_{ax}(a^2,y)\) on the spin axis, where the test particle can stay in an unstable equilibrium. We present the behaviour of this function in comparison with the function \(y_{ex(z(ax))}(r;\,a^2)\) in Fig. 11. They intersect each other at the local extrema of the function \(y_h(r;\,a^2)\) and in the stationary regions of the black hole spacetimes it holds \(y_{ex(z(ax))}(r;\,a^2)< y_{ex(z(eq))}(r;\,a^2) < y_h(r;\,a^2),\) i.e., it is \(r_{ax}(a^2,y)<r_{eq}(a^2,y)\).
4.2 Radial geodesic frames
In the following we shall concentrate on the two extremal cases of radially falling frames, namely, the radial fall confined to the equatorial plane and along the spin axis. The general formula for the locally measured radial velocity \(v^{(r)}\) we get using (56) and associated relations. We arrive to
where the radial component \(u^r\) is given by (63), (65) and the temporal one can be expressed considering (15) and (58) by means of the rescaled parameter E in the form
In order to get the dependence of the radial velocity on the latitudinal coordinate \(\theta _{0}\), we substitute for parameters E, Q from (72), (73), and after some algebraic manipulations we finally obtain
In the case of pure Kerr spacetimes (\(y=0\)) this relation goes over to well known formula \(v^{(r)}=\pm \sqrt{1-\frac{\rho ^2\Delta _{r}}{A}}\) (see, e.g., [59]). However, for energies \(E^2<I^{-1}\) or \(E^2>I\) the formula (83) does not work and one must use the more general expression (81). In the special cases of our interest we can modify the expression (83) inserting \(\theta =0, \pi /2\). The first case corresponds to the stable radial fall/escape along the spin axis with the minimum allowed energy \(E^2=I\) and velocity
the latter case corresponds to the pure radial fall/escape stably confined to the equatorial plane with maximum allowed energy \(E^2=I^{-1}\) and velocity
Considering the relations (75), (79) we can write the formulas (84), (85) in an alternative form
which, as can be verified, hold for any allowed energy. The formula (86) then describes the unstable radial fall/escape for energies \(E^2_{z(ax)}\le E^2 < I\) along the spin axis, and stable radial fall/escape for energies \(I\le E^2,\) while the formula (87) governs the stable radial fall/escape for energies \(E^2_{z(eq)}\le E^2 \le I^{-1},\) and unstable radial fall/escape for energies \(E^2>I^{-1}\) in the equatorial plane. The dependence of the radial velocities on the particle energy is illustrated in Fig. 13.
With the knowledge of the radial velocity, and using the standard Lorentz transformation
where \(k^{({\hat{a}})},\) \(k^{(a)}\) denote the components of a photon‘s four-momentum locally measured by the radially falling observers and by the locally non-rotating observers, respectively, we can relate the directional angles between the both frames. The matrix elements in (88) are given by
where
is the Lorentz factor.
4.3 Construction of light escape cones
Since the directional angles are defined by the same way in every frame, one can derive
In the above relations and hereafter, we denote the observer velocity by v instead of \(v^{(r)}\) for simplicity; \(v>0\) for radially escaping observer, \(v<0\) for the falling one. We shall focus on observers with the radial velocities given by the relation (83). Since
one can put
and the relations (92), (93) imply
hence, the angle \({\hat{\beta }}\) is determined by the same functions as \(\beta \) in the case of the LNRF.
The expression (91) can be regarded as an implicit function of the impact parameter X, or \(\ell ,\) respectively, so it is worth to deal with an inverse relation determining the dependence of the impact parameter \(\ell \) on the directional angles. Following the same procedure as in the LNRF case, and after performing the appropriate transformations, we obtain
We present the behaviour of this function in Fig. 14 for the case of the radially escaping observers.
The light escape cones in the radially moving frames are constructed using the same procedure as those applied and described in details in the LNRF case, and compared with the cones constructed in the LNRF orbiting momentarily at the same position. The results are illustrated for typical situations in Fig. 15. The KdS spacetime parameters are chosen so that they correspond to the three classes of the Kerr–de Sitter black hole spacetimes, differing by the rank of outstanding radii relevant for the character of the photon motion as introduced and described in [17]. At a given position, both falling and escaping RGFs are considered. The light escape cones are in all the considered cases represented by the 2D diagrams in the (\(\alpha - \beta \)) plane. The pure radial inward direction corresponds to \(\alpha =0\).
5 Light escape cones in circular geodesic frames
Now we consider the astrophysically most interesting and significant case of local light escaping cones related to the Keplerian accretion disks governed by the circular geodesic motion.
5.1 Observers on the equatorial circular geodesics
Let us introduce the acronym CGF for the local reference frame connected with a massive test particle following a circular geodesic in the equatorial plane of the Kerr–de Sitter background. The constants of motion defined by the relations (58)–(61) for such particle (observer) read (see [85])
and
The CGF moves in \(\phi \) direction relatively to the LNRF with velocity \(v^{(\phi )},\) which according to (56) reads
Here
is the angular velocity of the observer. For \(y=0\) this relation goes over into \(\Omega _{\pm }=\frac{\pm \sqrt{r}}{r^2\pm a\sqrt{r}}\) (c. f. the appropriate relation in [59]). The ± signs in (100), (101) correspond to plus-family or minus-family orbits introduced in [85], where both cases \(v_{+}>0\) or \(v_{+}<0\) are possible, but for \(v_{-}\) it must be \(v_{-}<0\). Here and in the following we again omit the superscript \((\phi )\) for brevity. The value \(v_{+}=1\) corresponds to the co-rotating circular photon orbit located at \(r=r_{ph+},\) while \(v_{-}=-1\) holds for the counter-rotating photon orbit located at \(r=r_{ph-},\) where the orientation is determined relative to LNRF. According to (100), (101), there is \(v_{+}=v_{-}<0\) at the static radius \(r_{s}=y^{-1/3},\) which is also the limiting value for both functions. For the case of astrophysically most important stable orbits it holds \(r_{ph+}<r_{(ms+)i}<r_{(ms-)i}<r_{(ms-)o}<r_{(ms+)o}<r_{s},\) where \(r_{(ms\pm )i}, r_{(ms\pm )o}\) denote the marginally stable inner and outer plus/minus family orbits, respectively. A detailed analysis of the stability/instability of the equatorial circular orbits can be found in [85].
5.2 Photons in circular geodesic frames
The components of the photon four-momentum \(k^{({\tilde{a}})}\) locally measured in the CGF and corresponding quantities \(k^{(b)}\) measured in the LNRF are mutually tied by the special Lorentz transformation
where the transformation matrix reads
and
is the Lorentz factor. By the same way, as in the previous section, we find that the relations between directional angles in the CGFs and LNRFs read
by which we construct the light escape cones in the CGFs.
The stable circular orbits play important role in the study of accretion processes related to thin Keplerian discs in the vicinity of black holes, therefore we shall focus on construction of the light escape cones at the marginally stable orbits. In the KdS spacetimes, where the stable circular orbits are not allowed, it could be inspiring to deal with such construction at radii differing by the behaviour of \(\ell ({\tilde{\alpha }})\) as described above. Since the shape of the light escape cones is influenced by the radial position of the source with respect to the above mentioned outstanding radial coordinates, we shall divide the KdS spacetime parameter plane \(y-a^2\) according to the succession of these radii relative to loci of marginally stable orbits in the individual spacetimes. In the following list we present all possible sequences of that radii, which results in separation of the KdS black hole spacetimes giving their classification according to mixed criteria for the circular geodesics and general photon motion, as illustrated in Fig. 16:
- Case Ia: :
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\(r_o<r_{d1}<r_{ph+}<r_{ph-}<r_{(ms+)i}<r_{(ms-)i}<r_{(ms-)o}<r_{(ms+)o}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case Ib: :
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\(r_o<r_{d1}<r_{ph+}<r_{(ms+)i}<r_{ph-}<r_{(ms-)i}<r_{(ms-)o}<r_{(ms+)o}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case Ic: :
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\(r_o<r_{ph+}<r_{d1}<r_{(ms+)i}<r_{ph-}<r_{(ms-)i}<r_{(ms-)o}<r_{(ms+)o}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case Id: :
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\(r_o<r_{ph+}<r_{(ms+)i}<r_{d1}<r_{ph-}<r_{(ms-)i}<r_{(ms-)o}<r_{(ms+)o}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case IIa: :
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\(r_o<r_{d1}<r_{ph+}<r_{ph-}<r_{(ms+)i}<r_{(ms+)o}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case IIb: :
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\(r_o<r_{d1}<r_{ph+}<r_{(ms+)i}<r_{ph-}<r_{(ms+)o}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case IIc: :
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\(r_o<r_{ph+}<r_{d1}<r_{(ms+)i}<r_{ph-}<r_{(ms+)o}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case IId: :
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\(r_o<r_{ph+}<r_{(ms+)i}<r_{d1}<r_{ph-}<r_{(ms+)o}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case IIe: :
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\(r_o<r_{ph+}<r_{d1}<r_{ph-}<r_{(ms+)i}<r_{(ms+)o}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case IIf: :
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\(r_o<r_{ph+}<r_{d1}<r_{(ms+)i}<r_{(ms+)o}<r_{ph-}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case IIg: :
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\(r_o<r_{ph+}<r_{(ms+)i}<r_{d1}<r_{(ms+)o}<r_{ph-}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case IIh: :
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\(r_o<r_{ph+}<r_{(ms+)i}<r_{(ms+)o}<r_{d1}<r_{ph-}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case IIIa: :
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\(r_o<r_{d1}<r_{ph+}<r_{ph-}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case IIIb: :
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\(r_o<r_{ph+}<r_{d1}<r_{ph-}<r_s<r_{d2}<r_c\)
- Case IIIc: :
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\(r_o<r_{ph+}<r_{ph-}<r_s<r_c\)
5.3 Construction of the light escape cones
The dependence of the impact parameter \(\ell \) of a photon on its directional angles in the CGF is given by
which, in accordance with (45), takes the form valid in the LNRF for \(v_{\pm }=0\). In Fig. 17 we illustrate all qualitatively possible types of behaviour of the function \(\ell ({\tilde{\alpha }})\). It is compared with \(\ell (\alpha )\) in common graph for \({\tilde{\beta }},\beta =90\,^{\circ },\) since their local extrema located at \({\tilde{\alpha }}=\pi /2,3\pi /2\) then have the same value. In order to clearly display the behaviour of the divergency points of \(\ell ({\tilde{\alpha }})\), these functions are plotted for \({\tilde{\beta }},\beta =90\,^{\circ }\) in the range \(0\le \alpha \le 2\pi ,\) although the natural interval is \(0\le \alpha \le \pi \). However, this can be done because any direction determined by double \((\alpha ,\beta ),\) where \(\pi \le \alpha \le 2\pi ,\) \(0\,^{\circ }\le \beta \le 180\,^{\circ }\) can be identified with that described by double \((\acute{\alpha }, \acute{\beta }),\) \(0\le \acute{\alpha }\le \pi ,\) where \(\acute{\alpha }=2\pi -\alpha ,\) \(\acute{\beta }=\beta +180\,^{\circ }\). With this note in mind we have to understand the graphs above.
The divergent points \({\tilde{\alpha }}_{d}\) of \(\ell ({\tilde{\alpha }})\) again exist in a regions where \(0\le \Delta _{r} \le a^2,\) i.e., for \(r_{o}\le r \le r_{d1}\) (Fig. 17a) or \(r_{d2} \le r \le r_{c}\) in spacetimes with a divergent barrier of a photon motion, or anywhere in the stationary region, i.e., for \(r_{o}\le r \le r_{c}\) in spacetimes with a restricted barrier of a photon motion (Fig. 17b, d, e). The ’most common’ is the behaviour shown in Fig. 17a–c when \(v=v_{+}>0,\) or \(v=v_{-},\) but for \(v_{+}<0\) some qualitative changes arise (see Fig. 17d–f). The radii of orbits with \(v_{+}<0\) satisfy the inequality \(r_{(+)z} \le r \le r_{s},\) where \(r_{(+)z}\) is a solution between the outer black hole and cosmological horizon of the equation
The function in (109) is in [85] denoted \(y_{(L=0)}(r; a),\) since it determines loci of circular orbits with zero angular momentum. However, this solution does not satisfy conditions necessary for existence of the stable circular orbits, see [85]. Hence, orbits with \(v_{+}<0\) must be unstable. Note that the stable orbits with \(L=0\) exist in the KdS naked singularity spacetimes [65, 85] that are not considered in the present paper.
Further, it can be shown that in spacetimes with RRB there exist radii \(r_{(+)z}< r_{crit} < r_{s}\) of the plus-family orbits with velocities
for which the divergent points \({\tilde{\alpha }}_{d}\) of \(\ell ({\tilde{\alpha }})\) occur even when \(0\le {\tilde{\beta }}\le 90\,^{\circ }\). This case is illustrated in Fig. 17f.
For all of the Kerr–de Sitter black hole spacetimes we give for typical radii of circular geodesics in Fig. 18 the light escape cones in the related CGFs in the 2D representation. We again use the same procedure as in the case of the LNRFs and RGFs. The resulting CGF cones are compared to the related cones constructed in the corresponding LNRFs.
6 Conclusions
Inspecting the behaviour of the light escape cones we can summarize following results:
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LNRF
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1.
The rotational effects of the Kerr–de Sitter geometry are strongest in the equatorial plane, where the light escape cones are most distorted. This distortion decreases towards the polar axis, where the cones are symmetric.
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2.
The range of the spherical photon orbits is widest in the equatorial plane, where the limits are radii of the inner co-rotating \(r_{ph+}\) and outer counter-rotating \(r_{ph-}\) equatorial circular photon orbits. Towards the polar axis these marginal orbits approach some value \(r_{pol}\) at which they coalesce on the polar axis.
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3.
At radii between the outer black hole horizon \(r_{o}\) and \(r_{ph+}\), all escaping photons are outwards directed. Approaching the horizon, the cone shrinks to infinitesimal extension.
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4.
At the radius \(r_{ph+}\), and in the equatorial plane, photons emitted in the direction of motion of LNRF follow circular orbit of this radius, another escaping photons are outwards directed.
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5.
At radial distances between \(r_{ph+}\) and radius \(r_{pol}\), and sufficiently close to the equatorial plane, some escaping photons with positive azimuthal motion component inwards directed exist. Approaching the polar axis all escaping photons become outwards directed. On the polar axis and at the radius \(r_{pol}\), the escaping and captured photons are separated by the plane perpendicular to the polar axis.
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6.
There exist circular photon orbits with radius \(r_{pol}\) crossing the polar axis as seen by locally non-rotating observers. Photons on such orbits have impact parameter \(X=-a\) (\(\ell =0\)).
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7.
Above the radius \(r_{pol}\) and under \(r_{ph-}\), some inwards directed escaping photons enter the region of negative azimuthal component of motion. Approaching the polar axis all captured photons become inwards directed.
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8.
At radii \(r_{ph-}\) and in the equatorial plane, photons emitted in the opposite direction of the LNRF revolution follow circular orbit of this radius, another captured photons are all inwards directed.
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9.
At radii greater than \(r_{ph-}\), all captured photons are inwards directed at any latitude. Close to the cosmological horizon \(r_{c}\), the captured cone again reduces to infinitesimal extension.
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10.
In any kind of the Kerr–de Sitter black hole spacetimes, there exist photons with positive impact parameter X that are counter-rotating relatively to the locally non-rotating observers. Such phenomenon exists in the ergosphere. In the KdS spacetimes with the DRB, the ergosphere is confined between the radii \(r_{o}\) and \(r_{d1},\) and between \(r_{d2}\) and \(r_{c}\) in the equatorial plane, where \(r_{d1},\,r_{d2}\) are the points where the potential \(X_{+}(r;\,q,\,y,\;a)\) diverges. For each radius \(r_e\) between these limits, there exists a marginal latitude \(\theta _{m}(r_e)\) as a corresponding latitudinal coordinate of the static limit surface, such that this phenomenon appears between the latitudes \(\theta _{m}\) and \(\pi -\theta _{m}\). In the KdS spacetimes with the RRB, the ergosphere spreads anywhere between the radii \(r_{o}\) and \(r_{c}\) in the equatorial plane.
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11.
The marginal latitude increases with increasing radius from \(\theta _{m}=0\) at \(r=r_{o}\) to \(\theta _{m}=\pi /2\) at \(r=r_{d1}\), and decreases with increasing radius from \(\theta _{m}=\pi /2\) at \(r=r_{d2}\) to \(\theta _{m}=0\) at \(r=r_{c}\) in the KdS spacetimes with the DRB, otherwise it is not defined (see Fig. 2a). Here we restrict ourselves on the latitudes ‘above’ the equatorial plane, since the situation is symmetric with respect to the equatorial plane. In the KdS spacetimes with the RRB, the function \(\theta _{m}(r_{e})\) is defined between both the horizons where it has zeros again, and for \(r=r_{d(ex)}\) it has a local maximum (Figs. 2c, d, 15).
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12.
In the KdS spacetimes with the DRB, all the locally counter-rotating photons with positive impact parameter in the ‘inner’ ergosphere are captured by the black hole, the photons in the ‘outer’ ergosphere escape through the cosmological horizon. In the KdS black hole spacetimes with the RRB, and sufficiently close to the equatorial plane, some of these photons are captured and others escape; at radii \(r_e\ge r_{d(ex)}\) some inwards directed escaping photons emerge, for \(r_e\ge r_{ph-}\) all captured photons are inwards directed. Approaching the marginal latitude \(\theta _{m}(r_e),\) all photons are trapped for \(r_e<r_{d(ex)}\) and all escape for \(r_{d(ex)}<r_e\).
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1.
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RGF
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1.
Similarly to the case of the LNRF, the distortion of the light escape cones for both radially escaping and radially falling observers are most apparent in the equatorial plane, while on the polar axis it disappears.
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2.
The light escape cones appear to be shifted in the opposite direction to the movement of the source. In the same manner this shift affects the photons with high positive impact parameter X, moving in negative azimuthal direction. Such photons exist in the ergosphere.
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3.
In any kind of the Kerr–de Sitter black hole spacetimes, there exist inwards directed escaping photons at any radii in the stationary region, as seen by the radially escaping observers. For radially falling observers, such inwards directed escaping photons can occur in the vicinity of the cosmological horizon and sufficiently close to the equatorial plane.
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4.
Due to the time symmetry of the Kerr–de Sitter geometry, one can reverse the flow of the time and commute the falling/escaping source emitting the light through the light escape cone by the escaping/falling observer receiving the light incoming from the bright celestial background. The light escape cone itself then represents the silhouette of the black hole, rotating, unlike normal, due to the time reversion clockwise. The shift of the silhouette is the result of dragging of the spacetime by the rotation of the black hole and aberration due to the observer motion. Note that near the so called static radius, the radially falling or escaping observers are closely related to the corresponding LNRFs, and can be considered as nearly static distant observers. At distances larger than the static radius of the KdS black hole spacetime, the escaping radial observers have to be considered as a proper generalization of the static distant observers related to asymptotically flat Kerr black hole spacetimes.
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1.
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CGF
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1.
In all cases of the KdS black hole spacetimes, at all the stable circular orbits, there is \(v_{(+)}>0,\) and \(v_{(-)}<0,\) hence the symmetry axis of the light escape cones of the source orbiting along the plus family orbits, located between the inner and outer marginally stable orbits, is shifted in positive azimuthal direction, while in the case of the minus family orbits, it is shifted in negative azimuthal direction.
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2.
The light escape cones of the sources related to the whole range of stable co-rotating circular orbits, limited by the inner and outer marginally stable orbits, appear to be more opened (wider) than in the case of the LNRF sources. This is also the case of all stable counter-rotating orbits in the spacetimes with the rotational parameter a low enough; however, in the KdS spacetimes of the type Id, the cones are narrower in comparison to the LNRF cones. Such effect can be assigned to the dragging by rotation of the spacetime.
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3.
In the ergosphere, the part of the local escape cones related to the locally non-rotating photons with positive impact parameter X and negative energy E appear to be narrower in CGFs in comparison with LNRFs. This is the effect of the relative motion of the source with respect to the LNRF. Note that only co-rotating stable circular orbits can reside in the ergosphere.
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4.
As the inner marginally stable plus family orbit approaches the outer event black hole horizon due to modification of the spacetime parameters a, y, the local escape cone related to the CGF at this orbit becomes more and more opened in comparison with the related LNRF escape cone. This effect can be assigned to an increase of the orbital velocity of the source with approaching to the outer black hole event horizon.
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5.
As in the case of radially moving frames, from the construction of the light escape cones one can get an immediate idea of the shape of the black hole silhouette, observed on the circular orbits, by simultaneous change of the orientation of the black hole spin and orbital velocity of the source/observer.
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1.
We can summarize that we have constructed local escape cones for the sources related to the LNRFs, RGFs, and CGFs in all types of the KdS black hole spacetimes. Such cones in a direct complementary way determine shadow, or silhouette, of a KdS black hole located in front of a radiating screen (or whole radiating sky of the observer). Such shadows can be constructed for any orbiting or falling (escaping) observer. However, the shadows related to distant observers, nearly stationary near the static radius of the KdS spacetimes, or those related to radially escaping observers at distances overcoming the static radius, are clearly astrophysically significant, having direct observational relevance.
Construction of the local photon escape cones enables detailed modelling of the whole variety of the optical observational phenomena (light curves of radiating hot spots, spectral continuum profiles, profiled spectral lines, appearance of the radiating structure) related to the Keplerian accretion disks [9], including the self-occult effect [8], and a minor modification of the CGF model enables modelling of the optical effects connected with the radiating toroids, or complex toroidal configurations [52,53,54].
In addition to the construction of the photon escape cones related to local sources, we have considered in the complementary local photon capture cones their special parts related to the special class of (counter-rotating) photons with positive impact parameters and negative covariant energy. The photons with negatively-valued energy can have a specific role in calculations of the black hole spin and mass evolution due to accretion, with modifications implied by the captured radiation of the accretion disk [89].
In future we plan to extend our study of the local escape cones to the KdS naked singularity spacetimes, where the situation is more complex than in the black hole spacetimes due to non-existence of the black hole event horizon, as only the cosmological horizon exists in such spacetimes. Moreover, along with the escape and captured photons that occur in the KdS black hole spacetimes, also the so called trapped photons exist in the naked singularity spacetimes, as shown in [80].
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The authors acknowledge the Albert Einstein Centre for Gravitation and Astrophysics, supported by the Czech Science Foundation Grant no 14-37986G, and the Silesian university at Opava internal Grant SGS/14/2016.
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Stuchlík, Z., Charbulák, D. & Schee, J. Light escape cones in local reference frames of Kerr–de Sitter black hole spacetimes and related black hole shadows. Eur. Phys. J. C 78, 180 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5578-6
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