Optical appearance of a compact binary system in the neighbourhood of supermassive black hole

Abstract: Optical appearance of a compact binary star in the field of a supermassive black hole is modeled in a strong field regime. Expressions for the redshift, magnification coefficient and pulsar extinction time are derived. By using the vierbein formalism we have derived equations of motion of compact binary star in the external gravitational field. We have analysed both the evolution of redshift of the optical ray from the usual star or white dwarf, and the times of arrival of pulses of pulsar. The results are illustrated by a calculation for a model binary system for the case of external gravitational field of a Schwarzschild black hole. The obtained results can be used for fitting timing data from the X-ray pulsars that moves in the neighbourhood of the Galactic Center (Sgr A*).