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The influence of plasma on different effects of gravitational lensing is reviewed. Using the Hamiltonian approach for geometrical optics in a medium in the presence of gravity, an exact formula for the photon deflection angle by a black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-31 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , O. Yu. Tsupko

In this work we study the deflection angle $\Delta \varphi$ and gravitational lensing of both lightlike and timelike neutral rays in Reissner-Nordstr\"om (RN) spacetimes. The exact deflection angle is found as an elliptical function of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-20 Xiankai Pang , Junji Jia

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…

The solution of the null non-radial geodesic in a Schwarzschild-de Sitter background is revisited. The gravitational bending of a light ray is affected by the cosmological constant, in agreement with the findings of some previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Tolu Biressa , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco

The fact that the gravitation could deflect the light trajectory has been confirmed by a large number of observation data, that is consistent with the result calculated by Einstein's gravity. F(R)-gravity is the modification of Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Long Huang , Feng He , Hai Huang , Min Yao

The gravitational deflection of test particles including light, due to a radially moving Kerr-Newman black hole with an arbitrary constant velocity being perpendicular to its angular momentum, is investigated. In harmonic coordinates, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-27 Guansheng He , Wenbin Lin

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

The new method of invariant definition of the measurable angle of light deflection in the static central symmetric gravitational field is suggested. The predicted pure gravitational contribution to the deflection angle slightly differs from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tertychniy

The bending angle of light is a central quantity in the theory of gravitational lensing. We develop an analytical perturbation framework for calculating the bending angle of light rays lensed by a Schwarzschild black hole. Using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Savitri V. Iyer , Arlie O. Petters

We study the deflection of light rays in a cold, non-magnetized plasma using the worldline framework. Starting from Synge's Hamiltonian formalism, we construct a position-space action and use it perturbatively to calculate light bending…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 Francesco Comberiati , Leonardo de la Cruz

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

In this paper, we use the Gauss Bonnet theorem to obtain the deflection angle by the photons coupled to Weyl tensor in a Schwarzschild black hole and Schwarzschild-like black hole in bumblebee gravity in the weak limit approximation. To do…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-31 Ali Övgün , Kimet Jusufi , Izzet Sakalli

Wormholes are one of the most interesting topological features in spacetime, offering a rat run between two vastly separated regions of the universe. In this paper, we study the deflection angle of light by wormholes, which are supported by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Kimet Jusufi , Ali Övgün , Ayan Banerjee , İzzet Sakallı

An analysis of null geodesics in Schwarzschild de Sitter space is presented with special attention to their global `bending angles', local measurable angles, and the involvement of the cosmological constant. We make use of a general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-19 Dmitri Lebedev , Kayll Lake

Understanding the deflection of light by a massive deflector, as well as the associated gravitational lens phenomena, require the use of the theory of General Relativity. I consider here a classical approach, based on Newton's equation of…

Physics Education · Physics 2008-03-05 T. Garel

Light does not travel in a perfectly straight line when it passes near massive objects. In this work, we calculate the gravitational deflection of light using the gauge theory of unified gravity [Rep. Prog. Phys. 88, 057802 (2025)],…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 Mikko Partanen , Jukka Tulkki

The contribution of the cosmological constant to the deflection angle and the time delays are derived from the integration of the gravitational potential as well as from Fermat's Principle. The findings are in agreement with recent results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Mustapha Ishak

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

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

We investigate the perihelion shift of planetary motion in conformal Weyl gravity using the metric of the static, spherically symmetric solution discovered by Mannheim \& Kazanas (1989). To this end we employ a procedure similar to that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-15 Joseph Sultana , Demosthenes Kazanas , Jackson Levi Said