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We apply the analogy between gravitational fields and optical media in the general relativistic geometric optics framework to describe how light can acquire orbital angular momentum (OAM) when it traverses the gravitational field of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-28 Fabrizio Tamburini , Fabiano Feleppa , Ignazio Licata , Bo Thidé

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

Gravitational lensing allows us to probe the structure of matter on a broad range of astronomical scales, and as light from a distant source traverses an intervening galaxy, compact matter such as planets, stars, and black holes act as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-09 Hugh Garsden , Geraint F. Lewis

This paper investigates the shadow and polarization images of a Kerr-Sen black hole illuminated by geometrically thick and optically thin accretion disks. We adopt two classes of accretion models, namely the phenomenological radiatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Yu-Kang Wang , Chen-Yu Yang , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

We present a fast, arbitrarily accurate method to simulate the effect of gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies and polarization fields by large scale structures. We demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-12 S. Basak , S. Prunet , K. Benabed

We investigate strong gravitational lensing using magnetized Kerr black holes (MKBHs), which are accurate Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson solutions for Kerr black holes in a uniform magnetic field with additional magnetic field strength $B$ apart…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Amnish Vachher , Arun Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

This thesis contributes to the field of gravitational lensing (GL) and observational cosmology. We discuss the use of gravitational lensing as a tool in search of exotic objects in the Universe. In the next chapter the concordance of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-18 Margarita Safonova

One of the main challenges in using high redshift active galactic nuclei to study the correlations between the mass of the supermassive Black Hole (MBH) and the properties of their active host galaxies is instrumental resolution. Strong…

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing for black hole with scalar charge in massive gravity. We find that the scalar charge and the type of the black hole significantly affect the radius of the photon sphere, deflection angle,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-16 Ruanjing Zhang , Jiliang Jing , Songbai Chen

In the present work, we investigate the gravitational lensing effects of two quantum-modified black hole models recently proposed in effective quantum gravity. The light deflection angles are calculated for both the weak-field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Hao Liu , Meng-Yun Lai , Xiao-Yin Pan , Hyat Huang , De-Cheng Zou

Rapid progress in electromagnetic black hole observation presents a theoretical challenge: how can the universal signatures of extreme gravitational lensing be distilled from stochastic astrophysical signals? With this motivation, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-12 Shahar Hadar , Sreehari Harikesh , Doron Chelouche

For the short hairs that have a significant impact only near the event horizon, studying their strong gravitational lensing effects is of great significance for revealing the properties of these hairs. In this study, we systematically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

The inner regions of active galaxies host the most extreme and energetic phenomena in the universe including, relativistic jets, supermassive black hole binaries, and recoiling supermassive black holes. However, many of these sources cannot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-19 Anna Barnacka

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

In this manuscript, we provide a comprehensive study of gravitational lensing by dark compact objects predicted by a Modified Gravity (MOG) based on the Scalar-Vector-Tensor action, and the aim is to analyze new insights into the nature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Nagina Rehman , Zoe C. S. Chan , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou

A small fraction of gravitational-wave (GW) signals from binary black holes (BBHs) will be gravitationally lensed by intervening galaxies and galaxy clusters. Strong lensing will produce multiple identical copies of the GW signal arriving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Koustav N. Maity , Souvik Jana , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Ankur Barsode , Parameswaran Ajith

In astronomy, gravitational lensing of light leads to the formation of multiple images, arcs, Einstein rings, and, most important, the shadow of black holes. Analogously in the vicinity of a massive compact object massive particles,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-20 Torben C. Frost

Heavy particle effective theory applied to spinning black holes provides a natural framework in which propagators linearize and numerators exponentiate. In this work, we exploit these two features to introduce Kerr generating functions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Rafael Aoude , Andreas Helset

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 wolensing Python package offers a solution for gravitational wave lensing computations within the full wave-optics regime. This tool is primarily designed to calculate the gravitational lensing amplification factor including diffractive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Simon M. C. Yeung , Mark H. Y. Cheung , Miguel Zumalacarregui , Otto A. Hannuksela