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This is a general work on gravitational lensing. We present new expressions for the optical scalars and the deflection angle in terms of the energy-momentum tensor components of matter distributions. Our work generalizes standard references…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Emanuel Gallo , Osvaldo M. Moreschi

We extend to higher order a recently published method for calculating the deflection angle of light in a general static and spherically symmetric metric. Since the method is convergent we obtain very accurate analytical expressions that we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Amore , Santiago Arceo , Francisco Fernandez

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of weak gravitational lensing and its current applications in cosmology. We begin by introducing the fundamental concepts of gravitational lensing and derive the key equations for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 J. Prat , D. Bacon

In this paper we investigate the strong gravitational lensing with Gauss-Bonnet gravity. By considering the logarithmic term for deflection angle, we obtain the deflection angle $\hat\alpha$ and corresponding parameters $\bar{a}$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Sadeghi , H. Vaez

We study light deflection from a Reissner-Nordstr\"om-de Sitter black hole in the gravitational monopole background. We first calculate the orbit equation and the contribution of the monopole and black hole parameters to the deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-05 M. Haluk Seçuk , Özgür Delice

We derive angle differences between two null geodesics, propagating from light sources to an observer, on the de Sitter spacetime with multi-lensing objects. Assuming the lensing objects are mass monopoles on the de Sitter background, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-30 Rio Saitou , Hiromi Saida

Using the geodesic method and the perturbative approach, we study the deflection of light by time-periodic spherically symmetric gravitational fields. Assuming the weakness of the gravitational field, we derive general formulas that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-16 Vladimir A. Koutvitsky , Eugene M. Maslov

In this study, we review some current studies on Gravitational Lensing for black holes, mainly in the context of general relativity. We mainly focus on the analytical studies related to lensing with references to observational results. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Abhishek Chowdhuri , Saptaswa Ghosh , Arpan Bhattacharyya

We investigate possible quantum gravity (QG) effects on the gravitational deflection of light. Two forms of deformation of the Schwarzschild spacetime are proposed. The first ansatz is a given Finslerian line element, it could be regarded…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-24 Xin Li , Zhe Chang

In this paper we review and build on the common methods used to analyze null geodesics in Schwarzschild de Sitter space. We present a general technique which allows finding measurable intersection angles of null trajectories analytically,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-23 Dmitri Lebedev , Kayll Lake

Before we discuss the deflection of light in a gravitational field, we give a brief overview of some basic physical formulas on photon properties, generation and propagation. The much debated problems of the redshift and the photon…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Klaus Wilhelm , Bhola N. Dwivedi , Karsten Muller

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 paper, we study the deflection angle for wormhole-like static aether solution by using Gibbons and Werner technique in non-plasma, plasma, and dark matter mediums. For this purpose, we use optical spacetime geometry to calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-05 Wajiha Javed , Sibgha Riaz , Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

We study the deflection and gravitational lensing (GL) of both timelike and null signals in the equatorial plane of arbitrary stationary and axisymmetric spacetimes in the strong deflection limit. Our approach employs a perturbative method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Yujie Duan , Siyan Lin , Junji Jia

The long-standing problem of whether the cosmological constant affects directly the deflection of light caused by a gravitational lens is reconsidered. We use a new approach based on the Hawking quasilocal mass of a sphere grazed by light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-25 Valerio Faraoni , Marianne Lapierre-Leonard

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

A generalized lens equation for weak gravitational fields in Schwarzschild metric and valid for finite distances of source and observer from the light deflecting body is suggested. The magnitude of neglected terms in the generalized lens…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Sven Zschocke

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

In order to clarify effects of the finite distance from a lens object to a light source and a receiver, the gravitational deflection of light has been recently reexamined by using the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) theorem in differential geometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-07 Toshiaki Ono , Hideki Asada

Time delays are a key observable in strong gravitational lensing systems. Their theoretical expression is usually written as a sum of a geometrical delay and a Shapiro delay, with cosmology entering through angular diameter distances and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Luca Teodori , Kfir Blum , Zhaoyu Bai