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In this work, we develop a perturbative method to compute the deflection angle of null or timelike signals in spacetimes filled with a static and spherically symmetric (SSS) perfect fluid with fairly arbitrary density distributions. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Peiran Liu , Xiaotian Zhang , Junji Jia

We investigate the deflection of photons in the strong deflection limit within static and axisymmetric spacetimes possessing reflection symmetry. As the impact parameter approaches its critical value, the deflection angle exhibits a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Takahisa Igata

In this work we find analytical solutions to the null geodesics around a black hole in the conformal Weyl gravity. Exact expressions for the horizons are found, and they depend on the cosmological constant and the coupling constants of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-26 J. R. Villanueva , Marco Olivares

Gravitational lensing refers to the deflection of light by the gravity of celestial bodies, often predominantly composed of dark matter. Seen through a gravitational lens, the images of distant galaxies appear distorted. In this paper we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Hans Georg Schaatun , Ben David Normann , Einar Leite Austnes , Simon Ingebrigtsen , Sondre Westbø Remøy , Simon Nedreberg Runde

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

The potential of the gravitational microlensing inside our Galaxy for testing the Einstein formula for the gravitational light deflection is discussed. For this purpose, the lens mapping is modified by introducing parameter eps, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-22 A. N. Alexandrov , V. M. Sliusar , V. I. Zhdanov

We analyse strong gravitational field time delay for photons coupled to the Weyl tensor in a Schwarzschild black hole. By making use of the method of strong deflection limit, we find that these time delays between relativistic images are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-05 Xu Lu , Feng-Wei Yang , Yi Xie

In this paper we examine cosmological weak lensing on non-linear scales and show that there are Newtonian and relativistic contributions and that the latter can also be extracted from standard Newtonian simulations. We use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-06 Daniel B. Thomas , Marco Bruni , David Wands

The method of Rindler and Ishak enables one to study how light is bent in the vicinity of a non-rotating and spherically symmetric gravitational lens. This method mainly aims to investigate the role of cosmological constant in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-08 Mert Mangut , Huriye Gürsel , İzzet Sakallı

In this paper, we re-examine the light deflection in the Schwarzschild and the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime. First, supposing a static and spherically symmetric spacetime, we propose the definition of the total deflection angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-09 Hideyoshi Arakida

We found strong similarities between the gravitational lensing and the conventional optical lensing. The similarities imply a graded refractive index description of the light deflection in gravitational field. We got a general approach to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Xing-Hao Ye , Qiang Lin

Deflection of light due to massive objects was predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity. This deflection of light has been calculated by many researchers in past, for spherically symmetric objects. But, in reality, most of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-07 Ranchhaigiri Brahma , A. K. Sen

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

Time delay in galaxy gravitational lensing systems has been used to determine the value of Hubble constant. As in other dynamical phenomena at the scale of galaxy, dark matter is often invoked in gravitational lensing to account for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-10 Yong Tian , Chung-Ming Ko , Mu-Chen Chiu

The trajectory deflection and gravitational-electromagnetic dual lensing (GEL) of charged signal in general charged static and spherically symmetric spacetimes are considered in this work. We showed that the perturbative approach previously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Xiaoge Xu , Tingyuan Jiang , Junji Jia

High redshift sources suffer from magnification or demagnification due to weak gravitational lensing by large scale structure. One consequence of this is that the distance-redshift relation, in wide use for cosmological tests, suffers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Madhura Killedar , Paul D. Lasky , Geraint F. Lewis , Chris J. Fluke

The ambition of the present work is to highlight the phenomena of strong gravitational lensing and deflection angle for the photons coupling with Weyl tensor in a Kiselev black hole. Here, we have extended the prior work of Chen and Jing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-12 G. Abbas , Asif Mahmood , M. Zubair

Deflection of light by gravity was predicted by General Relativity and observationaly confirmed in 1919. In the following decades various aspects of the gravitational lens effect were explored theoretically, among them the possibility of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Joachim Wambsganss

Assuming a static and spherically symmetric spacetime, we propose a novel concept of the total deflection angle of a light ray. The concept is defined by the difference between the sum of internal angles of two triangles; one of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-18 Hideyoshi Arakida

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