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Gravitational lensing by black holes in the $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-09-17 v3

Abstract

Recently, a non-trivial 4D4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theory of gravity, by rescaling the GB coupling parameter as α/(D4)\alpha/(D-4), was formulated in \cite{Glavan:2019inb}, which bypasses Lovelock's theorem and avoids Ostrogradsky instability. The theory admits a static spherically symmetric black hole, unlike 5D5D EGB or general relativity counterpart, which can have both Cauchy and event horizons. We generalize previous work, on gravitational lensing by a Schwarzschild black hole, in the strong and weak deflection limits to the 4D4D EGB black holes to calculate the deflection coefficients aˉ\bar{a} and bˉ\bar{b}, while former increases and later decrease with increasing α\alpha. We also find that the deflection angle αD\alpha_D, angular position θ\theta_{\infty} and umu_{m} decreases, but angular separation ss increases with α\alpha. The effect of the GB coupling parameter α\alpha on positions and magnification of the source relativistic images is discussed in the context of SgrA* and M87* black holes. A brief description of the weak gravitational lensing using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem is presented.

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@article{arxiv.2004.01038,
  title  = {Gravitational lensing by black holes in the $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity},
  author = {Shafqat Ul Islam and Rahul Kumar and Sushant G. Ghosh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.01038},
  year   = {2020}
}

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14 pages, 6 figures, and 2 tables. Matched with the published version