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Diverse regular spacetimes using a parametrised density profile
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Pith's one-line read A Dekel-Zhao density profile yields a new regular black hole and a horizonless defect spacetime in general relativity, plus a thin-shell stellar model based on the defect interior.
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The reading
With the King profile, the resulting metric has finite curvature invariants at the center. For strong density parameters it has an inner and an outer horizon, giving a regular black hole: no singularity, but a trapped region. The same solution satisfies the null and weak energy conditions, while the strong energy condition fails near the center, which is typical for regular black holes. The authors compute its photon sphere and shadow, and show that for suitable length and density scales the angular shadow diameter agrees with the Event Horizon Telescope observations of M87* and Sgr A*.
With the pseudo-isothermal profile, they find a horizonless, geodesically complete spacetime with a solid angle deficit, which they call a defect. A fluid-of-strings model with a quadratic pressure-density relation sources this geometry. The defect interior is joined to a Schwarzschild exterior through a thin shell to make a gravastar-like object, and the shell's surface energy and tension are computed.
The paper is transparent about where it is incomplete: the Lagrangian that sources the black hole is not derived in the text, and several checks, such as completeness of all non-radial geodesics and strict stability of the shell, are asserted rather than demonstrated.
Extended reading notes
Core claim
For M=0, the King-density metric (3.2), f(r)=1+8πρ0R^3/sqrt(r^2+R^2)+(8πρ0R^3/r) ln[(sqrt(r^2+R^2)-r)/R], is claimed to be a family of regular black holes with finite curvature invariants and complete causal geodesics, with double horizons when 8πρ0R^2>3.448. The pseudo-isothermal metric (4.8), f=1-8πR^2ρ0+8πR^2ρ0 arctan(r/R)/(r/R), is claimed to be a regular, geodesically complete defect spacetime with a solid angle deficit, later used as a gravastar interior.
Load-bearing premise
Completeness of all causal geodesics is inferred from the smoothness of the effective potential for radial timelike geodesics in the extended radial domain (Figs. 2 and 8), following the criterion in Ref. [52]. Non-radial timelike and null geodesics are not analyzed explicitly, yet all causal geodesics complete is the stated regularity criterion. If this criterion is insufficient, the claim that the King black hole and defect spacetime are geodesically complete is not established.
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Assumptions & free parameters
free parameters (6)
- Dekel-Zhao profile parameters (mu, nu, alpha) =
King: (3,2,0); defect subclass: (3,2,-1); other known solutions use other triples
- Density scale rho0 =
EHT constraints for King solution: about 10^2 kg/m^3 for M87* and 10^8 kg/m^3 for Sgr A*; otherwise arbitrary
- Length scale R =
About 10^12 m for M87* and 10^9 m for Sgr A*; arbitrary otherwise
- Magnetic charge q_m in the NED Lagrangian =
not fixed
- TOV equation of state parameters (a, b, lambda) =
a=1/2, b=-3/2, lambda=5/3 for King; a=0, b=-1, lambda=2 for pseudo-isothermal; other triples for known solutions
- Gravastar parameters (exterior mass M, junction radius a0) =
not fixed; x=2M/a0 ranges over (0,1)
assumptions (5)
- domain assumption Einstein field equations (2.2) with an anisotropic fluid (2.3) and the Schwarzschild-gauge metric (2.1)
- standard math The mass function is obtained by integrating 4*pi*r^2*rho from the origin for the chosen density, with regularity conditions mu>=3, nu>0, alpha>-3
- domain assumption Smoothness of the radial effective potential in the extended negative-r domain implies geodesic completeness for all causal geodesics, following Ref. [52]
- ad hoc to paper The Lagrangian L(F) in Eq (3.11) reproduces the stress tensor of the King solution
- ad hoc to paper A shell at fixed radius with V(a)=0 is strictly stable
invented entities (1)
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Magnetic monopole sourced by nonlinear electrodynamics L(F)
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We explore the construction of diverse regular spacetimes (black holes and defects) in General Relativity (GR) using a generic parametrised density profile (the Dekel-Zhao profile), which includes, for specific parameter choices, various well-known examples usually studied in the context of dark matter halos. Our solutions, in the Schwarzschild gauge, include new regular black holes as well as non-singular solutions representing spacetime defects. For a sub-class of metrics, a TOV equation approach with a chosen equation of state works. The status of the energy conditions and the issue of geodesic completeness are explored in detail. We also provide possible Lagrangian density constructions for the matter energy-momentum tensors. Further, we study the shadow radius of the new regular black holes, and compare our findings with available observational results from the EHT collaboration. Finally, for the defect solution, we present a model for a stable star (a gravastar) by explicit use of the junction conditions and obtain relevant consequences highlighting its characteristic features.
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Regularity of curvature scalars and geodesic completeness To verify that the metric in Eq.(3.2) represents a regular spacetime, we examine the three independent curvature scalars explicitly. A smooth and continuous behaviour of the scalars over the entire domain of the radial coordinate is a necessary condition to prove that the metric is genuinely regula...
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The energy density ( ρ) is already assumed in Eq.(3.1)
Energy conditions Let us now examine the different energy conditions for the matter required to support such a regular geometry. The energy density ( ρ) is already assumed in Eq.(3.1). The other components of the energy-momentum tensor, as obtained assuming Einstein equations of GR hold, are the following, pr =−ρ, p t = ρ0R3(r2− 2R2) 2(r2 +R2)5/2 (3.8) It...
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Similarly, we may model the required matter for the above-discussed regular black hole in terms of a magnetic monopole gov- erned by a specific nonlinear electrodynamics
Matter source for the geometry We mentioned in the Introduction that nonlinear electrodynamics minimally coupled to gravity can source several regular black holes [8–14]. Similarly, we may model the required matter for the above-discussed regular black hole in terms of a magnetic monopole gov- erned by a specific nonlinear electrodynamics. We have found t...
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