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and Qonly and is linearly electrically charged. Whereas, the metric under consideration consists of charge with strong
nonlinear effects. As we know that the trace of energy-momentum tensor is zero for the Maxwell’s Lagrangian that
gives Reissner-Nordstr¨om BH. However, for the nonlinear electrodynamics case, the trace of energy-momentum tensor
is non-zero for the Lagrangian (2). This non-zero value of the trace contains βand further contains Cin the function
h0(r) as given in Refs. [61, 62]. By considering β= 0, the trace becomes zero. Also, by taking the value C= 0 in the
trace and in the metrics (4) and (8), the trace becomes zero and the metrics reduce to Reissner-Nordstr¨om metric.
Hence, the non-zero finite values of βand Cdefine our metric that is distinguishable from the Reissner-Nordstr¨om
metric i.e. by the comparison of the trace, the strong field metric is distinguishable from the Reissner-Nordstr¨om
metric.
Suppose that after the shifting, we get the parameters m=M−8C3/2κ2
15β1/4as effective mass and q=qQ2−C2κ2
2
as effective charge in f(r)s. Then the resulting metric would appear as Reissner-Nordstr¨om metric with parameters
mand qas said above. This would be significant only if we use the parametric values of mand qwith a physical
description. However, there is no physical description of mand qapart from calling them as effective mass and
effective charge, respectively. Moreover, we can not use the values of mand qindependently in the calculations
because if we put m= 0.5 and q= 0.6, these are actually the combination of parametric values of M,Q,β,Cand
κ. So, if we have to use the values of M,Q,β,Cand κat the end, then considering mand qis of no use. Else,
if we use the values of mand q, then the required explanation of the results would be related to M,Q,β,Cand κ
which is inconsistent with what is used in the calculations. Furthermore, using mand qwould suppress the actual
objective of this study because we aim to focus on the effect of nonlinear electrodynamics parameter on the photon
sphere, horizon and shadow. As said earlier, the nonlinear electrodynamics effects can not be removed or neglected
in the strong field region and the nonlinear electrodynamics is not the characteristics of Reissner-Nordstr¨om metric.
Hence, the metric (8) is different from the Reissner-Nordstr¨om metric for all of the above mentioned reasons. Later,
this fact will also be demonstrated through the results of photon sphere, horizon and shadow.
To discuss the radius of photon sphere in the strong field limit, we assume an observer near the BH. Then the
general condition for the radius of photon sphere is [10]
d
dr r2
f(r)sr=rs
p
= 0,(10)
which gives
rs
p=3
2M−8C3/2κ2
15β1/4+1
2s9M−8C3/2κ2
15β1/42
−8Q2+ 4C2κ2.(11)
Figure 1presents the plots for the radius of photon sphere vs βand Qand shows a comparison of results with
Reissner-Nordstr¨om BH. Note that, for all plots, we have used M= 1, C= 1 and κ= 1 for simplicity. We have kept
the same values and variations for βfor a rigorous comparison. The negative values of βhave not been considered
because there exist no photon sphere for β < 0 in the strong field limit. So, βis kept positive for all calculations.
Also, βbeing less sensitive as compared to other parameters, is not varied with small step size in the intervals such
as (0,1). Instead, we vary it in the interval (0,100] keeping in view the sensitivity level. Moreover, it is still possible
to do calculations for β∈(0,1). For example, there will be finite values of radius of photon sphere for β∈(0,1).
However, the results will not be convergent to rs
p= 3 (Schwarzschild BH) for small variation in the values of βand for
Q= 0. For a comprehensive analysis, it is important that the values of radius of photon sphere should approach the
value of Schwarzschild BH. So, as β100 and Q= 0, the value of radius of photon sphere approaches 3. Whereas,
for a small step size of β, the radius of photon sphere will be approximately around 1.5, which is not a significant
value to compare the results.
In the left plot, it can be seen that when β→0, the radius rs
pdrops asymptotically for different values of charge
Qfor nonlinear electrodynamics case. However, for Q= 1, minimum value of rs
p∼1. Also, the radius increases
rapidly till β∼10 and for other values of β, radius increases slowly and approaches the corresponding values of
Reissner-Nordstr¨om BH shown with dashed curves. Moreover, the outermost curve corresponds to Q= 0 and by
increasing Q, the curves are shifted inwards. The dashed curves show a constant value of radii for each fixed value
of Qbecause the Reissner-Nordstr¨om BH has no dependence upon β. In the right plot, it is found that the radius
decreases as charge increases for each curve. Also the curves are shifted outwards for increasing β. As we know
that certain parameters weaken the gravity and hence the photon regions become smaller by increasing the values of
those parameters. Here, such behavior is also shown by the charge parameter Qas if it is responsible for weakening
the gravity. The outermost orange curve corresponds to the Reissner-Nordstr¨om BH and all of the other curves
approach it under the limit β→ ∞. However, under this limit, these curves will not exactly match the curve for
Reissner-Nordstr¨om BH unless C= 0.