For Johannsen-Psaltis spacetimes, the polar photon-ring time delay depends only on spin and shadow size, while the azimuthal shift probes the metric ratio F/N, enabling future spin and frame-dragging tests.
Measuring the shape of a black hole photon ring
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General relativity predicts that gravitational lensing near black holes will produce narrow "photon rings" on images. Building on recent work of Johnson, Lupsasca et al. focusing on circular rings, I calculate the long-baseline interferometric signature of a narrow feature of arbitrary shape and intensity. The shape information is contained in the oscillation frequencies of the complex visibility as a function of baseline length, for each baseline angle. These results raise the possibility of measuring the detailed shape of a photon ring and comparing to the precise predictions of general relativity.
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Influence of Observer Inclination and Spacetime Structure on Photon Ring Observables
For Johannsen-Psaltis spacetimes, the polar photon-ring time delay depends only on spin and shadow size, while the azimuthal shift probes the metric ratio F/N, enabling future spin and frame-dragging tests.