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We analyze cosmography as a tool to constrain modified gravity theories. We take four distinct models and obtain their parameters in terms of the cosmographic parameters favored by observational data of strong gravitational lensing. We…

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We study the lensing phenomena of the strong gravity regime of five-dimensional charged, equally rotating black holes with a cosmological constant, familiarly known as the Cveti\v c-L\"u-Pope black holes. These black holes are characterized…

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While most strong-gravitational-lensing systems may be roughly modelled by a single massive object between the source and the observer, in the details all the structures near the light path contribute to the observed images. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-01 Pierre Fleury , Julien Larena , Jean-Philippe Uzan

We study strong gravitational lensing in a static, spherically symmetric, naked singularity spacetime, without a photon sphere. The nature of the singularity is found to be lightlike. We discuss the characteristic lensing features of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-25 Suvankar Paul

The precision reached by current and forthcoming strong-lensing observations requires to accurately model various perturbations to the main deflector. Hitherto, theoretical models have been developed to account for either cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-10 Pierre Fleury , Julien Larena , Jean-Philippe Uzan

We present a complete treatment in the strong field limit of gravitational retro-lensing by a static spherically symmetric compact object having a photon sphere. The results are compared with those corresponding to ordinary lensing in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Diego F. Torres

We present a framework for studying gravitational lensing in spherically symmetric spacetimes using 1+1+2 covariant methods. A general formula for the deflection angle is derived and we show how this can be used to recover the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-14 Bonita de Swardt , Peter K. S. Dunsby , Chris Clarkson

This paper investigates gravitational lensing effects in the presence of plasma in the strong deflection limit, which corresponds to light rays circling around a compact object and forming higher-order images. While previous studies of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Fabiano Feleppa , Valerio Bozza , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

Here the gravitational lensing in strong field limit of a Schwarzschild black hole with a solid deficit angle owing to global monopole within the context of the $f(R)$ gravity theory is investigated. We obtain the expressions of deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Jingyun Man , Hongbo Cheng

In this work, gravitational lensing in the weak and strong field limits is investigated for black hole spacetime within the framework of Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ gravity. We employ the Ishihara et al. approach for weak lensing and adopt Bozza's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Gayatri Mohan , Nashiba Parbin , Umananda Dev Goswami

We examine a class of charged black holes in scalar-tensor gravity as gravitational lenses. We find the deflection angle in the strong deflection limit, from which we obtain the positions and the magnifications of the relativistic images.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-01 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra

We analyzed the influence of static gravitational field on the vacuum and proposed the concept of inhomogeneous vacuum. According to the corresponding Fermat's principle in the general relativity, we derived a graded refractive index of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Xing-Hao Ye , Qiang Lin

In the search for the nature of dark energy most cosmological probes measure simple functions of the expansion rate. While powerful, these all involve roughly the same dependence on the dark energy equation of state parameters, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric V. Linder

In this paper we have assumed a weak-field regime to explore the gravitational lensed photons in a 4 dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, which is very much in the limelight these days. The investigation is conducted in three distinct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-03 Gulmina Zaman Babar , Farruh Atamurotov , Abdullah Zaman Babar

Observations of gravitational lenses in strong gravitational fields give us a clue to understanding dark compact objects. In this paper, we extend a method to obtain a deflection angle in a strong deflection limit provided by Bozza [Phys.…

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We use the statistics of strong gravitational lensing based on the Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey (CLASS) data to constrain cosmological parameters in a spatially-flat, inverse power-law potential energy density, scalar-field dark energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kyu-Hyun Chae , Gang Chen , Bharat Ratra , Dong-Wook Lee

We consider gravitational lensing under a weak-field approximation and in a strong deflection limit by a Bronnikov-Kim wormhole with the same metric as the one of a wormhole which has been suggested in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-08 Naoki Tsukamoto

We study the influence of phantom fields on strong field gravitational lensing. Supposing that the gravitational field of the supermassive central object of the Galaxy is described by a phantom black hole metric, we estimate the numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-14 Chikun Ding , Changqing Liu , Yuanyuan Xiao , Liqun Jiang , Rong-Gen Cai

In superfluid dark matter the exchange of phonons can create an additional force that has an effect similar to Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). To test whether this hypothesis is compatible with observation, we study a set of strong…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-15 Sabine Hossenfelder , Tobias Mistele

In the present work, we theoretically investigate light deflection in the weak and strong field regimes for two regular spacetimes with corrections from loop quantum gravity. We treat analytically the expansions for both limits and use them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-19 A. R. Soares , C. F. S. Pereira , R. L. L. Vitória , Marcos V. de S. Silva , H. Belich