Rotating regular black holes in AdS spacetime and its shadow

Abstract: The presence of a photon region around the black hole is an essential feature in receiving the emitted spectrum from the vicinity of the black hole by the distant observer. In this paper, we investigate the optical properties of rotating regular anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes, which characterized by its mass $(M)$, spin parameter $(a)$, deviation parameter $(k)$ and the cosmological constant $(\Lambda)$ related to the curvature radius via $(\Lambda=-3/l^2)$. We derive the complete null geodesic equations of motion and study the unstable circular orbits for an observer at given Boyer-Lindquist coordinates ($r_O,\;\vartheta_O$) in the domain of outer communication and trace the photon rings. For the analytical part of our study, we investigate the observables, namely, shadow radius $(R_s)$ and distortion parameter $(\delta_s)$. These rotating regular AdS black holes have smaller shadows when compare to the Kerr and regular spacetimes. We also estimate the energy emission rate of the black hole.