Observational Signatures of Misaligned Double-Ring and Double-Torus Configurations around a Schwarzschild Black Hole

Dmitriy Ovchinnikov; Jan Schee; Zdeněk Stuchlík

doi:10.53941/ijgtp.2026.200007

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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.

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