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In the present work we study numerically quasi-equatorial lensing by the charged, stationary, axially-symmetric Kerr-Sen dilaton-axion black hole in the strong deflection limit. In this approximation we compute the magnification and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Galin N. Gyulchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We develop a unified, analytic framework for gravitational lensing by Kerr black holes. In this first paper we present a new, general lens equation and magnification formula governing lensing by a compact object. Our lens equation assumes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Amir B. Aazami , Charles R. Keeton , A. O. Petters

In this letter a new formula for light deflection is derived using only physically observable concepts. The general result is specialized to cosmological perturbation theory and expressed in terms of gauge--invariant perturbation variables.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Ruth Durrer

The high speed of light in vacuo together with the weakness of Earth gravity rules out any experimental detection of gravitational deflection of light on the laboratory length scale. Recent advances in coherent optics that produce ultra…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Kumar

An study of the equatorial circular motion of photons and massive particles around a rotating compact body like a neutron star is presented. For this goal, we use an approximate Kerr-like metric with mass quadrupole as perturbation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-01 Diego Solano-Alfaro , Francisco Frutos-Alfaro

We study the deflection angle and the trajectory of the light rays around black holes in M-theory scenarios. Using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, we first compute and examine the deflection angle of the light rays near four and seven-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-23 N. Askour , A. Belhaj , H. Belmahi , M. Benali , H. El Moumni , Y. Sekhmani

A correlation between the angle of multiple scattering and the ionization energy loss for relativistic electrons in an amorphous medium is computed by solving the combined transport equation. The correlation is found to be the most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-02 M. V. Bondarenco

Both the non-homogeneous slowness of electromagnetic waves in gravitational fields and the frequency red shift contribute to the gravitational light bending. This twofold contribution explains the measured deflection of light rays by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Bulyzhenkov

We consider the bending of light by nonlinear electrodynamics when the magnetic field $B$ exceeds the critical value $B_{\rm c}$. Using the index of refraction derived from the analytic series representation in one-loop effective action of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Jin Young Kim

We construct a map of deflections of ultra-high energy cosmic rays by extragalactic magnetic fields using a magneto-hydrodynamical simulation of cosmic structure formation that realistically reproduces the positions of known galaxy clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Klaus Dolag , Dario Grasso , Volker Springel , Igor Tkachev

The deflection angle of a light ray can be arbitrarily large near a light sphere. The time-symmetrical shape of light curves of a pair of light rays reflected by a light sphere of a lens object does not depend on the details of the lens…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-14 Naoki Tsukamoto

In this work, we obtain the deflection angle for a boosted Kerr black hole in the weak field approximation using the optics in a curved spacetime developed by J.L. Synge in 1960. We study the behavior of light in the presence of plasma by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-24 Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov

In this second paper, we develop an analytical theory of quasi-equatorial lensing by Kerr black holes. In this setting we solve perturbatively our general lens equation with displacement given in Paper I, going beyond weak-deflection Kerr…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Amir B. Aazami , Charles R. Keeton , A. O. Petters

As shown in the experiment of She {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 101}, 243601 (2008)], a weak laser beam sent through a vertically hanging fiber exerts a transverse force and produces a lateral displacement of the fiber's lower end.…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Iver Brevik

Gravitational lensing by a spinning deflector in translational motion relative to the observer is discussed in the weak field, slow motion approximation. The effect of rotation, which generates an intrinsic gravito-magnetic field, separates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Sereno

In this paper, we investigate so-called spherical photon orbits around a deformed Kerr black hole with an extra deformation parameter. The change in the azimuth $\Delta\varphi$ and the angle of dragging of nodes per revolution $\Delta\Omega…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Changqing Liu , Chikun Ding , Jiliang Jing

The trajectory deflection and gravitational-electromagnetic dual lensing (GEL) of charged signal in general charged static and spherically symmetric spacetimes are considered in this work. We showed that the perturbative approach previously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Xiaoge Xu , Tingyuan Jiang , Junji Jia

Light does not travel in a perfectly straight line when it passes near massive objects. In this work, we calculate the gravitational deflection of light using the gauge theory of unified gravity [Rep. Prog. Phys. 88, 057802 (2025)],…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 Mikko Partanen , Jukka Tulkki

We have obtained the correct expression for the centrifugal force acting on a particle at the equatorial circumference of a rotating body in the locally non-rotating frame of the Kerr geometry. Using this expression for the equilibrium of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Sai Iyer , A R Prasanna

This paper investigates charged particle deflection in a Kerr spacetime background with a dipole magnetic field, focusing on the equatorial plane and employing the weak field approximation. We employ the Jacobi-Randers metric to unify the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-04 Zonghai Li , Junji Jia