https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09649-w
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Observability of zero-angular-momentum sources near Kerr black holes
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Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University, No. 5 Yiheyuan Rd, 100871, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
2
Department of Physics, Peking University, No. 5 Yiheyuan Rd, 100871, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
3
Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, No. 5 Yiheyuan Rd, 100871, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Received:
22
June
2021
Accepted:
11
September
2021
Published online:
25
September
2021
We revisit monochromatic and isotropic photon emissions from the zero-angular-momentum sources (ZAMSs) near a Kerr black hole. We investigate the escape probability of the photons that can reach to infinity and study the energy shifts of these escaping photons, which could be expressed as the functions of the source radius and the black hole spin. We study the cases for generic source radius and black hole spin, but we pay special attention to the near-horizon (near-)extremal Kerr ((near-)NHEK) cases. We reproduce the relevant numerical results using a more efficient method and get new analytical results for (near-)extremal cases. The main non-trivial results are: in the NHEK region of a (near-)extremal Kerr black hole, the escape probability for a ZAMS tends to 
, independent of the NHEK radius; at the innermost of the photon shell (IPS) in the near-NHEK region, the escape probability for a ZAMS tends to 
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