Gravitational lensing by black holes in the $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Abstract
Recently, a non-trivial Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theory of gravity, by rescaling the GB coupling parameter as , 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 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 EGB black holes to calculate the deflection coefficients and , while former increases and later decrease with increasing . We also find that the deflection angle , angular position and decreases, but angular separation increases with . The effect of the GB coupling parameter 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