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We consider a Kerr black hole acting as a gravitational deflector within the geometrical optics, and point source approximations. The Kerr black hole gravitational lens geometry consisting of an observer and a source located far away and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Samuel E. Vázquez , Ernesto P. Esteban

In this paper we first investigate the equatorial circular orbit structure of Kerr black holes with scalar hair (KBHsSH) and highlight their most prominent features which are quite distinct from the exterior region of ordinary bald Kerr…

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Given the absence of observations of black hole binaries, it is critical that the full range of accessible parameter space be explored in anticipation of future observation with gravitational wave detectors. To this end, we compile the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-29 Janna Levin , Sean T. McWilliams , Hugo Contreras

In this paper, we investigate the strong gravitational lensing by the stationary, axially-symmetric black hole in Kerr-Taub-NUT spacetime in the strong field limit. The deflection angle of light ray and other strong deflection limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu , Chun-E Fu , Ke Yang

We simulate the growth of isolated dark matter haloes from self-similar and spherically symmetric initial conditions. Our N-body code integrates the geodesic deviation equation in order to track the streams and caustics associated with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mark Vogelsberger , Simon D. M. White , Roya Mohayaee , Volker Springel

We consider a rapidly spinning black hole surrounded by an equatorial, geometrically thin, slowly accreting disk that is stationary and axisymmetric. We analytically compute the broadening of electromagnetic line emissions from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-26 Alexandru Lupsasca , Achilleas P. Porfyriadis , Yichen Shi

We have derived analytical solutions using Jacobi elliptic functions for bound and nearly bound photon orbits in Kerr-de Sitter (KdS) and Kerr-de Sitter Revisited (RKdS) spacetimes. Leveraging our obtained solutions, we have conducted an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-21 Eunice Omwoyo , Humberto Belich , Júlio C. Fabris , Hermano Velten

We propose a new procedure for measuring the spin of a black hole with an unprecedented accuracy based on the gravitational lensing of millisecond pulsars. We derive the basic equations for lensing by a rotating black hole. We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Amjad Ashoorioon , Mohammad Bagher Jahani Poshteh , Robert B. Mann

The studies of influence of spin on a photon motion in a Schwartzschild spacetime is continued. In the previous paper [2] the first order correction to the geodesic motion is reduced to a non-uniform linear ordinary differential equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. T. Muminov , Z. Ya. Turakulov

Quantum higher-spin theory applied to Compton amplitudes has proven to be surprisingly useful for elucidating Kerr black hole dynamics. Here we apply the framework to compute scattering amplitudes and observables for a binary system of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Lara Bohnenblust , Lucile Cangemi , Henrik Johansson , Paolo Pichini

Based on the covariant hamiltonian formalism, we study the dynamics of spinning test bodies in the Kerr and Schwarzschild spacetimes. For the first time, we derive the exact solution of circular orbits in the Kerr plane without truncating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Satish Kumar Saravanan

In the present paper, we study numerically the equatorial lensing and quasiequatorial lensing by Kerr black hole pierced by a cosmic string in the strong deflection limit. We calculate the strong deflection limit coefficients and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-06 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

We study gravitational lensing of gravitational waves taking into account the spin of a graviton coupled with a dragged spacetime made by a rotating object. We decompose the phase of gravitational waves into helicity-dependent and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Kei-ichiro Kubota , Shun Arai , Shinji Mukohyama

We show that most particle and subhalo orbits in simulated cosmological cold dark matter halos are surprisingly regular and periodic: The phase space structure of the outer halo regions shares some of the properties of the classical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Diemand , M. Kuhlen

We continue to investigate correspondences between, on the one hand, scattering amplitudes for massive higher-spin particles and gravitons in appropriate quantum-to-classical limits, and on the other hand, classical gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-08 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara , Chris Kavanagh , Justin Vines

We present an analytical treatment of gravitational lensing by a Kerr black hole in the weak deflection limit. Lightlike geodesics are expanded as a Taylor series up to and including third-order terms in m/b and a/b, where m is the black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Sereno , F. De Luca

The late infall of cold dark matter onto an isolated galaxy such as our own produces flows with definite velocity vectors at any physical point in the galactic halo. It also produces caustics which are places where the dark matter density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 P. Sikivie , W. Kinney

We present stationary and axially-symmetric black hole solutions to the Einstein field equations sourced by an anisotropic fluid, describing rotating black holes embedded in astrophysical environments. We compute their physical properties,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Vitor Cardoso

When gravitational waves propagate near massive objects, their paths curve resulting in gravitational lensing, which is expected to be a promising new instrument in astrophysics. If the time delay between different paths is comparable with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-14 Oleg Bulashenko , Helena Ubach

Gravitational lensing by the dual cusp catastrophes of the cold dark matter (CDM) caustic rings at cosmological distances may provide the tantalizing opportunity to detect CDM indirectly, and discriminate between axions and weakly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-21 V. K. Onemli