Published November 21, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Geodetic precession and strong gravitational lensing in dynamical Chern-Simons-modified gravity

  • 1. Institute of Physics and Department of Physics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081 (China)

Description

We have investigated the geodetic precession and the strong gravitational lensing in the slowly rotating black hole in the dynamical Chern-Simons-modified gravity theory. We present the formulas of the orbital period T and the geodetic precession angle ΔΘ for the timelike particles in the circular orbits around the black hole, which shows that the change of the geodetic precession angle with the Chern-Simons coupling parameter ξ is converse to the change of the orbital period with ξ for fixed a. We also discuss the effects of the Chern-Simons coupling parameter on the strong gravitational lensing when the light rays pass close to the black hole and obtain that for the stronger Chern-Simons coupling the prograde photons may be captured more easily, and conversely, the retrograde photons are harder to capture in the slowly rotating black hole in the dynamical Chern-Simons-modified gravity. Supposing that the gravitational field of the supermassive central object of the Galaxy can be described by this metric, we estimated the numerical values of the main observables for gravitational lensing in the strong field limit.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/27/22/225006

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/27/22/225006;
PII
S0264-9381(10)59329-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
27
Journal Issue
22
Journal Page Range
[16 p.]
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42033107
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
BLACK HOLES; COSMOLOGY; COUPLING; GALAXIES; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; METRICS; ORBITS; PHOTONS; PRECESSION; VISIBLE RADIATION
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MASSLESS PARTICLES; RADIATIONS