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The Structure in the Structure Function of Black Hole Light Curves

  • Authors: Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño, Lena Murchikova

Daniel C. M. Palumbo et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1010 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Dependence of the structure function on spin and inclination for a fixed astrophysical prescription. The purple curves correspond to the Keplerian-like inoisy model with λ0(r) = 2π/ΩK(r) ray traced with AART, while the orange curve corresponds to the homogeneous case λ0(r) = 10. The lighter-colored curves correspond to the ray tracing of only the direct image (n = 0). For the homogeneous case, we show the analytic photon ring contribution using τ ∼ 16.3 M and γ ∼ 0.9π, values obtained from theory for a = 0.0 and i = 17∘. As we can see, varying the inclination and spin changes the morphology of the structure function. Curves are normalized as in Figure 3, i.e., to Sgr A* observed data, to highlight shape differences.

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