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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…

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We use the non-observation of strong lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) in the first three observation runs of LIGO-Virgo detectors to constrain the fraction of dark matter in the form of compact objects in the mass range…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-28 A. Barsode , S. J. Kapadia , P. Ajith

The weak gravitational lensing of high redshift type Ia supernovae has the potential of probing the structure of matter on galaxy halo scales. This is complementary to the weak lensing of galaxies which probes structure of larger scales.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Benton Metcalf

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to directly map the dark matter in the universe and measure cosmological parameters. Current weak lensing surveys are limited by the atmospheric seeing from the ground and by the small…

LISA might detect gravitational waves from mergers of massive black hole binaries strongly lensed by intervening galaxies (Sereno et al. 2010). The detection of multiple gravitational lensing events would provide a new tool for cosmography.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Sereno , Ph. Jetzer , A. Sesana , M. Volonteri

Adopting the strong field limit approach, we studied the properties of strong field gravitational lensing in the deformed H\v{o}rava-Lifshitz black hole and obtained the angular position and magnification of the relativistic images.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-13 Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

The interaction between refraction from a distribution of inhomogeneous plasma and gravitational lensing introduces novel effects to the paths of light rays passing by a massive object. The plasma contributes additional terms to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Adam Rogers

We investigate gravitational lensing by a realistic model of disk galaxies. Most of the mass is contained in a large spherical isothermal dark matter halo, but the potential is modified significantly in the core by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ole Moeller , A. W. Blain

Plasma, as a medium around the black hole for light propagation, is known to visibly alter the shape of its shadow and the observables, which could impact the interpretation of the Event Horizon Telescope results. In this study, we examine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Connor McMillin , Zhichen Guan , Owen Gartlan , Lotus Liu , Leo Rodriguez , Shanshan Rodriguez

We study the lensing phenomena of the strong gravity regime of five-dimensional charged, equally rotating black holes with a cosmological constant, familiarly known as the Cveti\v c-L\"u-Pope black holes. These black holes are characterized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Md Sabir Ali , Shagun Kaushal , Yu-Xiao Liu

The study of black hole (BH) shadows provide crucial insights into the nature of strong gravitational effects and the intricate structure of the spacetime surrounding BHs. In this paper, we explore the shadow of Kerr MOG BH within a plasma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Saira Yasmin , Khadije Jafarzade , Mubasher Jamil

The specified constant 4-vector field reproducing the spherically symmetric stationary metric of cold dark matter halo in the region of flat rotation curves results in a constant angle of light deflection at small impact distances. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. V. Kiselev , D. I. Yudin

Gravitational lensing has emerged as a powerful probe of the matter distribution on subgalactic scales, which itself may contain important clues about the fundamental origins and properties of dark matter. Broadly speaking, two different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Charles R. Keeton , Leonidas A. Moustakas

Gravitational lensing represents a powerful tool to estimate the cosmological pa- rameters and the distribution of dark matter. I will describe the main observable quantities, concentrating on strong lensing, that manifests its effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tortora

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

We study the strong gravitational lensing in the background of a rotating non-Kerr compact object with a deformed parameter $\epsilon$ and an unbound rotation parameter $a$. We find that the photon sphere radius and the deflection angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

In the present work, we investigate the gravitational lensing effects of two quantum-modified black hole models recently proposed in effective quantum gravity. The light deflection angles are calculated for both the weak-field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Hao Liu , Meng-Yun Lai , Xiao-Yin Pan , Hyat Huang , De-Cheng Zou

In this work, we theoretically investigate strong gravitational lensing effects and evaluate various lensing observables of a static, spherically symmetric solution in the context of effective quantum gravity (EQG). Among the three types of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Suvankar Paul

By using the comoving distance, we derive an analytic expression for the optical depth of gravitational lensing, which depends on the redshift to the source and the cosmological model characterized by the cosmic mass density parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zong-Hong Zhu

The gravitational lensing properties of cosmological halos depend upon the mass distribution within each halo. The description of halos as nonsingular, truncated isothermal spheres, a particular solution of the isothermal Lane- Emden…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugo Martel , Paul R. Shapiro