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Recent observations have provided strong evidence for the presence of an Electron Scattering Region (ESR) within the central regions of AGNs. This is responsible for reprocessing emission from the accretion disk into polarised radiation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. J. Kedziora , H. Garsden , G. F. Lewis

In this paper, we investigate the gravitational lensing effect for the Schwarzschild-like black hole spacetime in the background of a Kalb-Ramond (KR) field proposed in [K. Yang et. al., Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 124004]. The solution is…

Analytical series expansions for the bending of light in the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole are presented in both the strong and weak deflection regimes. It is critical that these are known in analytical form so further analysis can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-04 Savitri V. Iyer , Edward C. Hansen

We investigate the imaging and polarization properties of Kerr-MOG black holes surrounded by geometrically thick accretion flows. The MOG parameter $\alpha$ introduces deviations from the Kerr metric, providing a means to test modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Xinyu Wang , Huan Ye , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

Gravitational microlensing is a very useful tool for investigating the innermost part of lensed quasars, especially for studying a relativistic accretion disk around a massive black hole (BH) supposed to exist in a quasar's center. Here we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Predrag Jovanovic

We present recent developments on numerical algorithms for computing photon and particle trajectories in the surrounding of compact objects. Strong gravity around neutron stars or black holes causes relativistic effects on the motion of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Fabio Bacchini , Bart Ripperda , Lorenzo Sironi

We try to explain quasar-galaxy associations by gravitational lensing by globular clusters, located in the halos of foreground galaxies. We propose observational test for verification of this hypothesis. We processed SUPERCOSMOS sky survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Yushchenko , Chulhee Kim , A. Sergeev , P. Niarchos , V. Manimanis

We investigate strong field gravitational lensing by rotating Simpson-Visser black hole, which has an additional parameter ($0\leq l/2M \leq1$), apart from mass ($M$) and rotation parameter ($a$). A rotating Simpson-Visser metric correspond…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Shafqat Ul Islam , Jitendra Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

Gravitational lensing is a potentially powerful tool for elucidating the origin of gamma-ray emission from distant sources. Cosmic lenses magnify the emission from distance sources and produce time delays between mirage images.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Anna Barnacka , Margaret J. Geller , Ian P. Dell'Antonio , Wystan Benbow

In this letter, we investigate the strong gravitational lensing effects around two classes of rotating regular black holes, which behave as non-singular Minkowski core at the center. Starting from the null geodesic in the equatorial plane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Mingyu Guo , Menghe Wu , Hong Guo , Xiaomei Kuang , Fuyao Liu

Effective field theory (EFT) provides a systematic framework for parametrizing possible higher-energy corrections to general relativity through higher-curvature interactions. In this work, we investigate gravitational lensing in both weak-…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Takamasa Kanai

We have investigated the strong gravitational lensing for the photons coupled to Weyl tensor in a Schwarzschild black hole spacetime. We find that in the four-dimensional black hole spacetime the equation of motion of the photons depends…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-05 Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Gravitational lensing occurs as the path of light from distant celestial bodies is distorted due to gravitational attraction by other celestial bodies, whose mass is partly invisible, being so-called dark matter. When observed through a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Hans Georg Schaathun , Ben David Normann , Kenny Solevåg-Hoti

Gravitational lensing represents a powerful tool to estimate the cosmological pa- rameters and the distribution of dark matter. I will describe the main observable quantities, concentrating on strong lensing, that manifests its effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tortora

The gravitational lensing of a finite star moving around a rotating Kerr black hole has been numerically calculated. Calculations for the direct image of the star and for the first and second light echoes have been performed for the star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-06 V. I. Dokuchaev , N. O. Nazarova

Strong lensing is a powerful tool to address three major astrophysical issues: understanding the spatial distribution of mass at kpc and sub-kpc scale, where baryons and dark matter interact to shape galaxies as we see them; determining the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. Treu

Strong gravitational lenses provide unique laboratories for cosmological and astrophysical investigations, but they must first be discovered - a task that can be met with significant contamination by other astrophysical objects and…

We investigate the gravitational lensing properties of dark matter halos with Burkert profiles. We derive an analytic expression for the lens equation and use it to compute the magnification, impact parameter and image separations for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yousin Park , Henry C. Ferguson

We consider the nonunitary quantum dynamics of neutral massless scalar particles used to model photons around a massive gravitational lens. The gravitational interaction between the lensing mass and asymptotically free particles is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Charles H. -T. Wang , Elliott Mansfield , Teodora Oniga

Gravitational Faraday Rotation (GFR) is a frame-dragging effect induced by rotating massive objects, which is one of the important, yet studied characteristics of lensed gravitational waves (GWs). In this work, we calculate the GFR angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-09 Zhao Li , Jin Qiao , Wen Zhao , Xinzhong Er