Observational Signatures of Misaligned Double-Ring and Double-Torus Configurations around a Schwarzschild Black Hole
We investigate the observational signatures of an idealized double-ring and double-torus system orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole, allowing the two emitting components to have mutually inclined symmetry axes. Using general-relativistic ray tracing, we construct frequency-shift maps, bolometric flux maps on the observer’s screen, and the corresponding spectral line profiles of the emitted radiation. The single equatorial torus is used as a reference configuration in order to isolate the effect of the second emitting component and of the mutual misalignment of the two structures. We show that the presence of two non-coplanar emitting structures produces characteristic multi-peak spectral profiles and asymmetric bolometric-flux distributions. These signatures are imprinted both in the line-profile morphology and in the α-profiles of the bolometric flux, providing simple diagnostic features of non-coplanar multi-component accretion structures.
Authors
- Jan Schee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2537-3877)
- Dmitriy Ovchinnikov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7811-7554)
- Zdeněk Stuchlík
Institutions
- Silesian University in Opava (CZ)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Gravitation and Theoretical Physics
- Published
- 2026-06-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.53941/ijgtp.2026.200007
- Primary Topic
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Slezská Univerzita v Opavě