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In this paper, we theoretically investigate gravitational lensing within the space-time framework of traversable wormholes, focusing on the combined effects of a global monopole and a cosmic string. Specifically, we examine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-21 Faizuddin Ahmed , İzzet Sakallı , Ahmad Al-Badawi

In this paper, we establish a generalized geometric framework based on the Gauss-Bonnet theorem and the Jacobi metric to investigate the gravitational deflection of massive spinning particles up to the quadrupole order $\mathcal{O}(s^2)$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Hoang Van Quyet

We analyze the effect of the cosmological expansion on the deflection of light caused by a point mass, adopting the McVittie metric as the geometrical description of a pointlike lens embedded in an expanding universe. In the case of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-14 Oliver F. Piattella

The deflection angle of equatorial light (the light in the equatorial plane) in Kerr-de Sitter (KdS) spacetime was previously calculated by Sultana [\href{https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.042003}{Phys. Rev. D 88,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 Yang Huang , Xiangyun Fu

The observation of the bending of light by mass, now known as gravitational lensing, was key in establishing general relativity as one of the pillars of modern physics. In the past couple of decades, there has been increasing interest in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Arthur B. Congdon , Savitri V. Iyer , Charles R. Keeton

The time delay between two relativistic images in the strong gravitational lensing governed by Gauss-Bonnet gravity is studied. We derive and calculate the expression of time delay due to the Gauss-Bonnet coupling. It is shown that the time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Jingyun Man , Hongbo Cheng

We investigate the gravitational lensing effect in the strong field background around the Schwarzschild black hole with extremely small mass and solid deficit angle subject to the global monopole by means of the strong field limit issue. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-01 Hongbo Cheng , Jingyun Man

Gravitational lens models, some of which might act as if a concave lens, have been recently investigated by using a static and spherically symmetric modified spacetime metric that depends on the inverse distance to the $n$-th power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Koki Nakajima , Koji Izumi , Hideki Asada

As an extension of our previous paper, instead of the total deflection angle $\alpha$, we will mainly focus on discussing the measurable angle of the light ray $\psi$ at the position of the observer in Kerr--de Sitter spacetime which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-04 Hideyoshi Arakida

We investigate the solution of Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime within the framework of Modified Gravity (MOG). We show that besides the null-geodesic treatment of photons in MOG, using Maxwell's equations and covariant coupling with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 S. Rahvar , J. W. Moffat

The light propagation in plasma medium around stationary gravitating objects is studied in the geometrical optics limit. Static metrics with quadrupole moments are considered, however, the main attention is paid to the stationary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-30 Barbora Bezdekova , Jiri Bicak

As an important candidate theory of gravity, Brans-Dicke theory has been widely studied. In this paper, we investigate light bending and gravitational lensing by compact objects in Brans-Dicke theory in weak gravitational field. Firstly, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-25 Xiaojun Gao , Shupeng Song , Jinsong Yang

We study the influence of general lens and source velocities on the gravitational deflection of light by single and two-point-mass microlenses with general axis orientation. We demonstrate that in all cases the lens equation preserves its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Heyrovsky

In the present paper, we study several aspects of gravitational lensing caused by a topologically charged Monopole/Wormhole, both in the weak field limit and in the strong field limit. We calculate the light deflection and then use it to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-17 A. R. Soares , R. L. L. Vitória , C. F. S. Pereira

The Gibbons-Werner method for calculating deflection angles using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem and optical/Jacobi metric has become widely popular in recent years. Werner extended this method to stationary spacetimes, where the optical/Jacobi…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Zonghai Li

Following Sereno (2002a), we discuss the bending of light rays by spherically symmetric lenses with angular momentum. For several astrophysical systems, such as white dwarfs and galaxies, gravitomagnetism induces a correction on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Sereno , V. F. CArdone

We give the lens equation for light deflections caused by point mass condensations in an otherwise spatially homogeneous and flat universe. We assume the signal from a distant source is deflected by a single condensation before it reaches…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Bin Chen , Ronald Kantowski , Xinyu Dai

In this paper, we argue that one can calculate the weak deflection angle of light in the background of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion black hole using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. To support this, the optical geometry of the black hole with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-19 W. Javed , R. Babar , A. Övgün

In the seventies, scientists observed discrepancies of the bending of light around the Sun based on Einstein's prediction of the curvature of star light due to the mass of the Sun. We claim that the interior electromagnetic properties of…

General Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jacob T. Fokkema , Peter M. van den Berg

We study gravitational lensing and the bending of light in low energy scale (M_S) gravity theories with extra space-time dimensions n. We find that due to the presence of spin-2 Kaluza-Klein states from compactification, a correction to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Gang He , Girish C. Joshi , Bruce H. J. McKellar