English

Gravitational lensing by wormholes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We have investigated the gravitational lensing by two wormholes, viz., Janis-Newman-Winnicour (JNW) wormhole and Ellis wormhole. The deflection angle in the strong field limit is calculated and various lens parameters of two wormholes are compared. It is shown that the JNW wormhole exhibits the relativistic images, while the Ellis wormhole does not have any relativistic images due to the absence of its photon sphere.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0806.4059,
  title  = {Gravitational lensing by wormholes},
  author = {Tushar Kanti Dey and Surajit Sen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4059},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

13 pages, 6 figures

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