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In this paper we study the light bending caused by a slowly rotating source in the context of quadratic theories of gravity, in which the Einstein--Hilbert action is extended by additional terms quadratic in the curvature tensors. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Luca Buoninfante , Breno L. Giacchini

A recent study by Rahaman et al. has shown that the galactic halo possesses the necessary properties for supporting traversable wormholes, based on two observational results, the density profile due to Navarro et al. and the observed flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-25 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

The gravitational lensing effects in the weak gravitational field by exotic lenses have been investigated intensively to find nonluminous exotic objects. Gravitational lensing based on 1/r^n fall-off metric, as a one-parameter model that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-25 Naoki Tsukamoto , Takao Kitamura , Koki Nakajima , Hideki Asada

In this work we extend the approach used in [Emanuel Gallo and Osvaldo M. Moreschi, Phys. Rev. D 83, 12 083007 (2011)] to the study of weak gravitational lensing in a plasma medium. First, we present expressions for the deflection angle and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Gabriel Crisnejo , Emanuel Gallo , José R. Villanueva

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

We present a framework that reformulates gravitational lensing as an optical phenomenon governed by an effective refractive index, enabling exploration of modified gravity theories using undergraduate-level mathematics and optics. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Romy Hanang Setya Budhi

We calculate the deflection of a light ray caused by the gravitational field of a cosmic string loop in the weak field limit and reduce the problem to a single quadrature over a time slice of the loop's world sheet. We then apply this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-09 Andrew A de Laix , Tanmay Vachaspati

Using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, we compute and examine the deflection angle of light rays by rotating regular black holes with a cosmological constant. By the help of optical geometries, we first deal with the Hayward black holes with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 A. Belhaj , H. Belmahi , M. Benali , H. El Moumni

We apply the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to the study of light rays in a plasma medium in a static and spherically symmetric gravitational field and also to the study of timelike geodesics followed for test massive particles in a spacetime with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-13 Gabriel Crisnejo , Emanuel Gallo

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

Compact objects with a light sphere such as black holes and wormholes can reflect light rays like a mirror. This gravitational lensing phenomenon is called retrolensing and it is an interesting tool to survey dark and compact objects with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-24 Naoki Tsukamoto , Yungui Gong

In this work, we calculate the quantum correction effects on the deflection of light in the spacetime geometry of a quantum improved Kerr black hole pierced by an infinitely long cosmic string. More precisely, we calculate the deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-30 Kimet Jusufi , Ali Övgün

We discuss a possible extension of calculations of the bending angle of light in a static, spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat spacetime to a non-asymptotically flat case. We examine a relation between the bending angle of light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Asahi Ishihara , Yusuke Suzuki , Toshiaki Ono , Takao Kitamura , Hideki Asada

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 this paper, we study the weak gravitational deflection angle of relativistic massive particles by the Kerr-like black hole in the bumblebee gravity model. In particular, we focus on weak field limits and calculate the deflection angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-23 Zonghai Li , Ali Övgün

In this paper, we study the deflection angle of light by traversable wormholes, which are supported by the three-form fields. The specific forms of the redshift and shape functions that produce results compatible with the energy conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Daris Samart , Natthason Autthisin , Phongpichit Channuie

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

Using a new geometrical method introduced by Werner, we find the deflection angle in the weak limit approximation by a spinning cosmic string in the context of the Einstein-Cartan (EC) theory of gravity. We begin by adopting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-17 Kimet Jusufi

In this paper, we calculate the weak deflection angle by Casimir wormhole and its shadow. To do so, we derive the Gaussian optical curvature and use the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Then we find the deflection angle by Casimir wormhole in weak…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-13 Wajiha Javed , Ali Hamza , Ali Övgün

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