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Verifying that sub-mm galaxies (SMGs) are gravitationally lensed requires time-expensive observations with over-subscribed high-resolution observatories. Here, we aim to strengthen the evidence of gravitational lensing within the Herschel…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-26 Tom J. L. C. Bakx , Stephen Eales , Aristeidis Amvrosiadis

Gravitational lensing is a well known phenomenon predicted by the General Theory of Relativity. It is now a well-developed observational technique in astronomy and is considered to be a fundamental tool for acquiring information about the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. De Paolis , A. Geralico , G. Ingrosso , A. A. Nucita , A. Qadir

We study Bardeen-like regular black holes without Cauchy horizons via gravitational lensing. In the weak field, the deflection angle receives a positive $\ell$-dependent correction, producing a slightly larger Einstein ring. For the galaxy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Limei Yuan , Chen-Hung Hsiao , Yidun Wan

We consider the prospects for detecting weak gravitational lensing by underdensities (voids) in the large-scale matter distribution. We derive the basic expressions for magnification and distortion by spherical voids. Clustering of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Luca Amendola , Joshua A. Frieman , Ioav Waga

Strong gravitational lensing gives access to the total mass distribution of galaxies. It can unveil a great deal of information about the lenses dark matter content when combined with the study of the lenses light profile. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 Judith Biernaux , Pierre Magain , Clementine Hauret

We analyze gravitational lensing, in particular the shadow and photon rings, in the Ernst spacetime, also known as the Schwarzschild-Melvin spacetime, which describes a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a homogenous magnetic field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Muhammad Haider Khan , Volker Perlick

We identify 13 sets of multiply-lensed galaxies around MACS J0717.5+3745 ($z=0.546$), outlining a very large tangential critical curve of major axis $\sim2.8\arcmin$, filling the field of HST/ACS. The equivalent circular Einstein radius is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-09 Adi Zitrin , Tom Broadhurst , Yoel Rephaeli , Sharon Sadeh

The existence of strong lensing systems with Einstein radii (Re) covering the full mass spectrum, from ~1-2" (produced by galaxy scale dark matter haloes) to >10" (produced by galaxy cluster scale haloes) have long been predicted. Many…

Gravitational lensing is a powerful concept in the Astrophysics to study black holes. The gravitational field of a massive object like a galaxy or black hole bends and magnifies the light from a distant object behind it. The Schwarzchild…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Amritansh Mehrotra , R. Kanishka

Gravitational waves (GWs) may be magnified or de-magnified due to lensing. This phenomenon will bias the distance estimation based on the matched filtering technique. Via the multi-sphere ray-tracing technique, we study the GW magnification…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-21 Xikai Shan , Chengliang Wei , Bin Hu

We propose a novel method to select satellite galaxies in outer regions of galaxy groups or clusters using weak gravitational lensing. The method is based on the theoretical expectation that the tangential shear pattern around satellite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Masato Shirasaki

A high optical depth to gravitational microlensing towards the galactic bulge is consistent with current models of the galactic bar. The low optical depth towards the LMC can probably be accounted for by the ordinary stars in our galaxy and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Bohdan Paczynski

Subject of this paper is the weak lensing effect on galaxies that show intrinsically correlated ellipticities. In our model, we investigate the distortion of the ellipticity field if the galaxies experience an apparent shift in their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Aram Giahi-Saravani , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

In this review, various researches on finding the bending angle of light deflected by a massive gravitating object which regard the Gauss-Bonnet theorem as the premise have been revised. Primarily, the Gibbons and Werner method is studied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-05 Yashmitha Kumaran , Ali Övgün

In this manuscript, we consider the hairy Schwarzschild black hole that evades the no-hair theorem. The hair is induced by an additional source from surroundings, such as dark matter, that has a constant energy-momentum tensor(EMT). We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-13 Sohan Kumar Jha , Anisur Rahaman

Propagating gravitational waves (GWs) can encounter a massive object (lens) whose gravitational radius is comparable to the wavelength of the GWs (wave-optics regime). The resulting `microlensed' signal contains imprints about the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Gopalkrishna Prabhu , Uddeepta Deka , Sumanta Chakraborty , Shasvath J. Kapadia

We consider small-scale spheroidal clusters of weakly interacting massive particles in our Galaxy as non-compact gravitational microlenses and predict the appearance of caustics in the plane of a lensed source. The crossing of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 M. B. Bogdanov , A. M. Cherepashchuk

We show with analytic models that the assumption of uncorrelated intrinsic ellipticities of target sources that is usually made in searches for weak gravitational lensing due to large-scale mass inhomogeneities (``field lensing'') is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 Paolo Catelan , Marc Kamionkowski , Roger D. Blandford

The present paper is intended for studying the effect of strong gravitational lensing in the context of charged wormhole. To study this effect, the conditions determining the existence of photon spheres at and outside the throat are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-02 Nisha Godani , Gauranga C. Samanta

In this work, we study the gravitational lensing by a Lorentz-violating (LV) black hole inspired by the recent contribution [1]. Explicitly, we concentrate on a specific application: we perform the computation of gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-21 A. A. Araújo Filho , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfírio