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Photon Ring Astrometry. I. A Simple Spin Measurement Technique for High-resolution Images of M87*

  • Authors: Delilah E. A. Gates, Dominic O. Chang, Aaron Held, Daniel C. M. Palumbo

Delilah E. A. Gates et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1007 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

Behavior of the centers (xnyn) for the n  =  0 and n  =  1 images of equatorial source rings on the image plane Equation (1). We show the horizontal components (xn; top row), vertical components (yn; second row), relative position ((x0  −  x1y0  −  y1); third row), and displacement (∣(x0y0)  −  (x1y1)∣; bottom row) of the image centers as a function of spin (subplot horizontal axes), inclination (θo  ∈  {5, 15, …, 45}; columns) and source ring radii (rs  ∈  {2M, 3M, …, 10M}; colored curves). Quantities are shown in units of the mass-to-distance ratio θg  =  M/D.

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