Probing Axions with Event Horizon Telescope Polarimetric Measurements. (arXiv:1905.02213v1 [hep-ph])
Probing Axions with Event Horizon Telescope Polarimetric Measurements. (arXiv:1905.02213v1 [hep-ph]) <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/hep-ph/1/au:+Chen_Y/0/1/0/all/0/1">Yifan Chen</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/hep-ph/1/au:+Shu_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">Jing Shu</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/hep-ph/1/au:+Xue_X/0/1/0/all/0/1">Xiao Xue</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/hep-ph/1/au:+Yuan_Q/0/1/0/all/0/1">Qiang Yuan</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/hep-ph/1/au:+Zhao_Y/0/1/0/all/0/1">Yue Zhao</a> With high spatial resolution, polarimetric imaging of a supermassive black hole, like M87$^star$ or Sgr A$^star$, by the Event Horizon Telescope can be used to probe the existence of ultralight bosonic particles, such as axions. Such particles can accumulate around a rotating black hole through superradiance mechanism, forming an axion cloud. When linearly polarized photons are emitted from accretion disk near the horizon, their position angles oscillate due to the birefringent effect when traveling through the axion background. In particular,Read More →