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Strong gravitational lensing of a 4-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet black hole in homogeneous plasma

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-08-26 v3

Abstract

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing of spherically symmetric black holes in the novel Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet(EGB) gravity surrounded by unmagnetised plasma medium. The deflection angle in the strong deflection limit in EGB spacetime with homogeneous plasma is derived. We find that both the coupling constant α\alpha in the novel EGB gravity and the presence of plasma can affect the radius of photon sphere, strong field limit coefficient and other lensing observables significantly. While plasma has little effect on the angular image separation and the relative magnifications as α/M28\alpha/M^2\to -8 and α/M21\alpha/M^2\to 1, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2004.02261,
  title  = {Strong gravitational lensing of a 4-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet black hole in homogeneous plasma},
  author = {Xing-Hua Jin and Yuan-Xing Gao and Dao-Jun Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.02261},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

16 pages, 7 figures; v2: references added, words polished and some typos corrected; v3: version to appear in IJMPD