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Total travel time $t$ and time delay $Delta t$ between images of gravitational lensing (GL) in the equatorial plane of stationary axisymmetric (SAS) spacetimes for null and timelike signals with arbitrary velocity are studied. Using a perturbative method in the weak field limit, $t$ in general SAS spacetimes is expressed as a quasi-series of the impact parameter $b$ with coefficients involving the source-lens distance $r_s$ and lens-detector distances $r_d$, signal velocity $v$, and asymptotic expansion coefficients of the metric functions. The time delay $Delta t$ to the leading order(s) were shown to be determined by the spacetime mass $M$, spin angular momentum $a$ and post-Newtonian parameter $gamma$, and kinematic variables $r_s,~r_d,~v$ and source angular position $beta$. When $betall sqrt{aM}/r_{s,d}$, $Delta t$ is dominated by the contribution linear to spin $a$. Modeling the Sgr A* supermassive black hole as a Kerr-Newman black hole, we show that as long as $betalesssim 1.5times 10^{-5}$ [$^{primeprime}$], then $Delta t$ will be able to reach the $mathcal{O}(1)$ second level, which is well within the time resolution of current GRB, gravitational wave and neutrino observatories. Therefore measuring $Delta t$ in GL of these signals will allow us to constrain the spin of the Sgr A*.
In this manuscript, we consider a scenario in which a spin-1/2 quanton goes through a superposition of co-rotating and counter-rotating geodetic circular paths, which play the role of the paths of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in a stationary and axisymmetric spacetime. Since the spin of the particle plays the role of a quantum clock, as the quanton moves in a superposed path it gets entangled with the momentum (or the path), and this will cause the interferometric visibility (or the internal quantum coherence) to drop, since, in stationary axisymmetric spacetimes there is a difference in proper time elapsed along the two trajectories. However, as we show here, the proper time of each path will couple to the corresponding local Wigner rotation, and the effect in the spin of the superposed particle will be a combination of both. Besides, we discuss a general framework to study the local Wigner rotations of spin-1/2 particles in general stationary axisymmetric spacetimes for circular orbits.
In this paper we consider homothetic Killing vectors in the class of stationary axisymmetric vacuum (SAV) spacetimes, where the components of the vectors are functions of the time and radial coordinates. In this case the component of any homothetic Killing vector along the $z$ direction must be constant. Firstly, it is shown that either the component along the radial direction is constant or we have the proportionality $g_{phiphi}propto g_{rhorho}$, where $g_{phiphi}>0$. In both cases, complete analyses are carried out and the general forms of the homothetic Killing vectors are determined. The associated conformal factors are also obtained. The case of vanishing twist in the metric, i.e., $omega= 0$ is considered and the complete forms of the homothetic Killing vectors are determined, as well as the associated conformal factors.
Solution generating techniques for general relativity with a conformally (and minimally) coupled scalar field are pushed forward to build a wide class of asymptotically flat, axisymmetric and stationary spacetimes continuously connected to Kerr. This family contains, amongst other things, rotating extensions of the Bekenstein black hole and also its angular and mass multipolar generalisations. Further addition of NUT charge is also discussed.
We study linear nonradial perturbations and stability of a marginal stable circular orbit (MSCO) such as the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a test particle in stationary axisymmetric spacetimes which possess a reflection symmetry with respect to the equatorial plane. The proposed approach is applied to Kerr solution and Majumdar-Papapetrou solution to Einstein equation. Finally, we reexamine MSCOs for a modified metric of a rapidly spinning black hole that has been recently proposed by Johannsen and Psaltis [PRD, 83, 124015 (2011)]. We show that, for the Johannsen and Psaltiss model, circular orbits that are stable against radial perturbations for some parameter region become unstable against vertical perturbations. This suggests that the last circular orbit for this model may be larger than the ISCO.
By using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, the bending angle of light in a static, spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat spacetime has been recently discussed, especially by taking account of the finite distance from a lens object to a light source and a receiver [Ishihara, Suzuki, Ono, Asada, Phys. Rev. D 95, 044017 (2017)]. We discuss a possible extension of the method of calculating the bending angle of light to stationary, axisymmetric and asymptotically flat spacetimes. For this purpose, we consider the light rays on the equatorial plane in the axisymmetric spacetime. We introduce a spatial metric to define the bending angle of light in the finite-distance situation. We show that the proposed bending angle of light is coordinate-invariant by using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. The non-vanishing geodesic curvature of the photon orbit with the spatial metric is caused in gravitomagnetism, even though the light ray in the four-dimensional spacetime follows the null geodesic. Finally, we consider Kerr spacetime as an example in order to examine how the bending angle of light is computed by the present method. The finite-distance correction to the gravitomagnetic deflection angle due to the Suns spin is around a pico-arcsecond level. The finite-distance corrections for Sgr A$^{ast}$ also are estimated to be very small. Therefore, the gravitomagnetic finite-distance corrections for these objects are unlikely to be observed with present technology.