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Every astrophysical object (dark or not) is a gravitational lens, as well as a receiver/observer of the light from sources lensed by other objects in its neighborhood. For a given pair of source and lens, there is a thin on-axis tubelike…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Yun Wang , Edwin L. Turner

In this paper, we investigate the gravitational lensing effect for the Schwarzschild-like black hole spacetime in the background of a Kalb-Ramond (KR) field proposed in [K. Yang et. al., Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 124004]. The solution is…

We use the Ernst-Schwarzschild solution for a black hole immersed in a uniform magnetic field to estimate corrections to the bending angle and time delay due-to presence of weak magnetic fields in galaxies and between galaxies, and also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. A. Konoplya

We describe a new approach to calculating photon trajectories and gravitational lensing effects in the strong gravitational field of the Kerr black hole. These techniques are applied to explore both the imaging and spectral properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Kris Beckwith , Chris Done

The recent rapid growth of the black hole (BH) catalog from gravitational waves (GWs), has allowed us to study the substructure of black hole mass function (BHMF) beyond the simplest Power-Law distribution. However, the BH masses inferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Xianlong He , Kai Liao , Xuheng Ding , Lilan Yang , Xudong Wen , Zhiqiang You , Zong-Hong Zhu

This work aims to explore the gravitational consequences of a recently proposed black hole solution presented in the literature [Phys. Dark Univ. 50 (2025) 102061]. We initiate our analyzes by taking into account the horizon structure,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo

In this article, we study regular scale-dependent black holes as gravitational lenses. We obtain the deflection angle in the strong deflection limit, from which we calculate the positions and the magnifications of the relativistic images.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-11 Carlos M. Sendra

Gravitation lensing calculations, which are generally done for light ray, are extended to that for a massive particle. Many interesting results were observed. We discuss the scattering cross section along-with many consequential quantities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikhil J. Joshi

Aim of the paper is study weak gravitational lensing of quantum (perturbed) (QLBHL) and classical (CLBHL) Lukewarm black hole in presence of cosmological parameter $\Lambda$. We apply numerical method to evaluate deflection angle of bending…

General Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 H. Ghaffarnejad , M. A. Mojahedi

In this paper, we investigate the applicability of the astrometric method to the determination of the lens parameters for gravitational microlensing events toward both the LMC and the Galactic bulge. For this analysis, we investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Cheongho Han , Kyongae Chang

Whereas considerable effort has been afforded in understanding the properties of galaxies, a full physical picture, connecting their baryonic and dark-matter content, super-massive black holes, and (metric) theories of gravity, is still…

The strong gravitational lensing of a regular and rotating magnetic black hole in non-minimally coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills theory is studied. We find that, with the increase of any characteristic parameters of this black hole, such as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-16 Ruanjing Zhang , Jiliang Jing , Zhipeng Peng , Qihong Huang

The quantum-corrected black hole model demonstrates significant potential in the study of gravitational lensing effects. By incorporating quantum effects, this model addresses the singularity problem in classical black holes. In this paper,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-12 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

Using the astrometry of microlensing events we study the effect of angular momentum as compared to that of the parallax. For a rotating lens it is shown that the effect of the angular momentum deviates the center of images from that in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Habib Ebrahimnejad Rahbari , Mohammad Nouri-Zonoz , Sohrab Rahvar

If it is hypothesised that there is no dark matter then some alternative gravitational theory must take the place of general relativity (GR) on the largest scales. Dynamical measurements can be used to investigate the nature of such a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel J. Mortlock , Edwin L. Turner

The C-metric is a solution to Einstein's vacuum field equation that describes an accelerating black hole. In this paper we discuss the propagation of light rays and the resulting lensing features in this metric. We first solve the lightlike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Torben C. Frost , Volker Perlick

Based on the geodesic equation in a static spherically symmetric metric we discuss the rotation curve and gravitational lensing. The rotation curve determines one function in the metric without assuming Einstein's equations. Then lensing is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-01-26 Gunter Scharf , Gerhard Braunlich

The standard cosmological model is based on general relativity and includes dark matter and dark energy. An important prediction of this model is a fixed relationship between the gravitational potentials responsible for gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pengjie Zhang , Michele Liguori , Rachel Bean , Scott Dodelson

Gravitational lensing provides a strict test of cosmogonic models. Detailed numerical propagation of light rays through a universe having a distribution of inhomogeneities derived from the standard CDM (cold dark matter) scenario with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Joachim Wambsganss , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Edwin L. Turner

We have developed a realistic, fully general relativistic computer code to simulate optical projection in a strong, spherically symmetric gravitational field. The standard theoretical analysis of optical projection for an observer in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Bakala , P. Cermak , S. Hledik , Z. Stuchlik , K. Truparova