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Probing the Shadow Image of the Sagittarius A* with Event Horizon Telescope

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arxiv 2202.00588 v1 pith:PNMPYJUE submitted 2022-01-29 gr-qc astro-ph.GA

Probing the Shadow Image of the Sagittarius A* with Event Horizon Telescope

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Recent observations of the Milky-way galactic center at various frequencies suggest a supermassive compact object. Generally, that supermassive compact object is assumed to be a `Black Hole', having more than four million solar masses. In this work, we study the observational appearance at $230$ GHz and probe the nature of Sagittarius-A* (Sgr A*) as the naked singularity. Here, we consider the first type of Joshi-Malafarina-Narayan (JMN-1) and Janis-Newman-Winicour (JNW) naked singularity spacetimes which are anisotropic fluid solutions of the Einstein field equations. Motivated by radiatively inefficient accretion flows (RIAF), we use an analytical model for emission and absorption coefficients to solve the general relativistic radiative transfer equation. The resulting emission is then utilized to generate images to predict the nature of the Sgr A* with synthetic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) images from current and future Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) arrays. Three different EHT array configurations are being used to simulate the models of naked singularities and a black hole. This may have little effect on the baseline, but it would increase the u-v plane gridding, making it feasible to capture a better-resolved image. Therefore, it is quite interesting and useful for the upcoming shadow image of the Sgr A* to predict whether it is a supermassive black hole or a naked singularity.

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