Another Approach to Test Gravity around a Black Hole

Iwata, Kengo; Yoo, Chul-Moon

doi:10.1088/0264-9381/33/15/155007

Another Approach to Test Gravity around a Black Hole

Mar 5, 2016

12 pages

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Class.Quant.Grav. 33 (2016) 15, 155007

Published: Jul 6, 2016

e-Print:

1603.01762 [gr-qc]

DOI:

10.1088/0264-9381/33/15/155007

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Abstract: (IOP)

Pulsars orbiting around the black hole (BH) at our galactic center provide us with a unique testing site for gravity. In this work, we propose an approach to probe the gravity around the BH introducing two phenomenological parameters which characterize deviation from the vacuum Einstein theory. The two phenomenological parameters are associated with the energy–momentum tensor in the framework of the Einstein theory. Therefore, our approach can be regarded as the complement to the parametrized post-Newtonian framework in which phenomenological parameters are introduced for deviation of gravitational theories from general relativity. In our formulation, we take into account the possibility of existence of a relativistic and exotic matter component. Since the pulsars can be regarded as test particles, as the first step, we consider geodesic motion in the system composed of a central BH and a perfect fluid whose distribution is static and spherically symmetric. It is found that the mass density of the fluid and a parameter of the equation of state can be determined with precision with

0.1 \%

if the density on the pulsar orbit is larger than

{10}^{-9}\,{\rm{g}}\,{\mathrm{cm}}^{-3}

.

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14 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in CQG

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