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Using a recently found black hole solution in the framework of the Poincar{\'e} gauge theory of gravity, we study gravitational lensing for a system where the lens is a static spherically symmetric black hole. By analyzing the equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-19 Saboura Sadat Zamani , Siamak Akhshabi

In gravitational lensing, the usual viewpoint is that light bending measures how a ray deviates from a straight line in Euclidean space. In this work, we take the opposite perspective: we ask how a straight line bends in a curved space,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Zonghai Li , Xiao-Jun Gao

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

Explicit expressions for the bending angle of light deflection arising from phenomenologically deformed black-hole metrics, subject to possible weak and strong quantum gravity effects, respectively, are obtained, by a highly effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-13 Chenmei Xu , Yisong Yang

In this paper we have investigated the gravitational lensing in a spherically symmetric spacetime with torsion in the generalized Einstein-Cartan-Kibble-Sciama (ECKS) theory of gravity by considering higher order terms. The torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-07 Lu Zhang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

In this paper the deflection angle of light by a rotating Teo wormhole spacetime is calculated in the weak limit approximation. We mainly focus on the weak deflection angle by revealing the gravitational lensing as a partially global…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-31 Kimet Jusufi , Ali Övgün

We study the light rays in a static and spherically symmetric gravitational field of null aether theory (NAT). To this end, we employ the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to compute the deflection angle by a NAT black hole in the weak limit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-12 A. Övgün , İ. Sakallı , J. Saavedra

Classical light bending is investigated for weak gravitational fields in the presence of hypothetical local Lorentz violation. Using an effective field theory framework that describes general deviations from local Lorentz invariance, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Rhondale Tso , Quentin G. Bailey

In this paper, we discuss the weak gravitational lensing in the context of stringy black holes. Initially, we examine the deflection angle of photon by charged stringy black hole. For this desire, we compute the Gaussian optical curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-02 Wajiha Javed , Muhammad Bilal Khadim , Ali Övgün

Using a new geometrical approach introduced by Gibbons and Werner we study the deflection angle by Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes in the background spacetimes with a global monopole and a cosmic string. By calculating the corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-18 Kimet Jusufi

We derive new limits on the value of the cosmological constant, $\Lambda$, based on the Einstein bending of light by systems where the lens is a distant galaxy or a cluster of galaxies. We use an amended lens equation in which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mustapha Ishak , Wolfgang Rindler , Jason Dossett , Jacob Moldenhauer , Chris Allison

Deflection of light due to massive objects was predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity. This deflection of light has been calculated by many researchers in past, for spherically symmetric objects. But, in reality, most of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-07 Ranchhaigiri Brahma , A. K. Sen

We study the implications of a scalar-tensorial gravity for the metric of an isolated self-gravitating superconducting cosmic string. These modifications are induced by an arbitrary coupling of a massless scalar field to the usual tensorial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-03 C. N. Ferreira , M. E. X. Guimaraes , J. A. Helayel-Neto

We investigate the impact of the axionic coupling parameter on the bending angle of light and the shadow cast by slowly rotating black holes in Chern-Simons modified gravity. We utilize the Ishihara \etal method to derive the deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-16 Nashiba Parbin , Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Umananda Dev Goswami

The potential of the gravitational microlensing inside our Galaxy for testing the Einstein formula for the gravitational light deflection is discussed. For this purpose, the lens mapping is modified by introducing parameter eps, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-22 A. N. Alexandrov , V. M. Sliusar , V. I. Zhdanov

We investigate gravitational lensing by \textit{special} Buchdahl inspired metric with the Buchdahl parameter $\tilde{k}$. In strong deflection limit, we derive the deflection angle analytically for the light rays that diverge as photons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 Shafia Maryam , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Zoe C S Chan

In this work, we study the weak gravitational lensing in the background of Kerr-Newman black hole with quintessential dark energy. Initially, we compute the deflection angle of light by charged black hole with quintessential dark energy by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-03 W. Javed , J. Abbas , A. Övgün

Gravitational lensing constitutes one of the most direct observational manifestations of spacetime curvature and provides a powerful probe of compact astrophysical objects. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of the bending of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Partha Pratim Basumallick , Saheb Das , Bhaswati Mandal , Subhadip Sau

Compact objects with magnetic dipole are considered as gravitational lenses. The presence of strong magnetic field near the photon sphere can affect the trajectory of light. We compute the deflection angle near the photon sphere on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Jin Young Kim

In 2007 Rindler and Ishak showed that, contrary to previous claims, the value of the cosmological constant does have an effect on light deflection by a gravitating object in an expanding universe, modeled by a Schwarzschild-de~Sitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-25 Mir Emad Aghili , Brett Bolen , Luca Bombelli