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We study light propagation and gravitational lensing in scalar-tensor theories of gravity by using a static, axisymmetric exterior solution. The solution has asymptotic flatness properties and is reduced to Voorhees's one in the case of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Shin-ei Tsuneishi , Kazuya Watanabe , Tooru Tsuchida

This thesis contributes to the field of gravitational lensing (GL) and observational cosmology. We discuss the use of gravitational lensing as a tool in search of exotic objects in the Universe. In the next chapter the concordance of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-18 Margarita Safonova

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

Using the Einstein gravitation theory (EGT) we calculate the Schwarzschild metric that is defined in the surrounding vacuum of a spherically symmetric mass distribution, not in rotation. The field equations of the EGT with this metric were…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-25 M. Cattani

Gravitational lensing directly measures mass density fluctuations along the lines of sight to very distant objects. No assumptions need to be made concerning bias, the ratio of fluctuations in galaxy density to mass density. Hence, lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Wambsganss , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

This paper addresses issues surrounding the concept of fractional quantum mechanics, related to lights propagation in inhomogeneous nonlinear media, specifically restricted to a so called gravitational optics. Besides Schr\"odinger Newton…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Alexander Iomin

In this paper, we study the gravitational lensing around the static and spherically symmetric DD black holes, which we recently derived as perturbations of the Schwarzschild geometry within the revised Deser-Woodard theory of nonlocal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Rocco D'Agostino , Vittorio De Falco

In the present work, we theoretically investigate gravitational lensing in the spacetime of a holonomy corrected Schwarzschild black hole. Analytical expressions for the light deflection angle are obtained in both the weak field limit and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-07 A. R. Soares , C. F. S. Pereira , R. L. L. Vitória

We study light propagation in the picture of semi-classical space-time that emerges in canonical quantum gravity in the loop representation. In such picture, where space-time exhibits a polymer-like structure at microscales, it is natural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Rodolfo Gambini , Jorge Pullin

The Lorentz covariant theory of propagation of light in the (weak) gravitational fields of N-body systems consisting of arbitrarily moving point-like bodies with constant masses is constructed. The theory is based on the Lienard-Wiechert…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergei M. Kopeikin , Gerhard Schafer

We present a framework for studying gravitational lensing in spherically symmetric spacetimes using 1+1+2 covariant methods. A general formula for the deflection angle is derived and we show how this can be used to recover the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-14 Bonita de Swardt , Peter K. S. Dunsby , Chris Clarkson

We analyze the propagation of high-frequency gravitational waves (GW) in scalar-tensor theories of gravity, with the aim of examining properties of cosmological distances as inferred from GW measurements. By using symmetry principles, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Gianmassimo Tasinato , Alice Garoffolo , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

A gravitational theory is formulated by considering the physical processes underlying relativistic dilation of time and contraction of space. It is shown that the point mass solution of general relativity's field equation - the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-25 James W. Douglass

The Etherington distance duality relation, which relates the luminosity distance, the angular diameter distance and the redshift of objects, depends only upon a conservation law for light that traces back directly to the Lorentzian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 Surhud More , Hiroko Niikura , Jonas Schneider , Frederic P. Schuller , Marcus C. Werner

We analyze gravitational lensing, in particular the shadow and photon rings, in the Ernst spacetime, also known as the Schwarzschild-Melvin spacetime, which describes a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a homogenous magnetic field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Muhammad Haider Khan , Volker Perlick

Formal analogies between gravitational and optical phenomena have been explored for over a century, providing valuable insights into kinematic aspects of general relativity. Here, this analogy is employed to study light propagation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Lucas T. de Paula , Caio C. Holanda Ribeiro , Vitorio A. De Lorenci

The gravitational field of a static body with quadrupole moment is described by an exact solution found by Erez and Rosen. Here we investigate the role of the quadrupole in the motion, deflection and lensing of a light ray in the above…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Donato Bini , Mariateresa Crosta , Fernando de Felice , Andrea Geralico , Alberto Vecchiato

We consider the scattering of lightlike matter in the presence of a heavy scalar object (such as the Sun or a Schwarzschild black hole). By treating general relativity as an effective field theory we directly compute the nonanalytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-20 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , John F. Donoghue , Barry R. Holstein , Ludovic Planté , Pierre Vanhove

The metric outside an isolated object made up of ordinary matter is bound to be the classical Schwarzschild vacuum solution of General Relativity. Nevertheless, some solutions are known (e.g. Morris-Thorne wormholes) that do not match…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-01 V. Bozza , A. Postiglione

An overview is given on those theoretical gravitational lensing results that can be formulated in a spacetime setting, without assuming that the gravitational fields are weak and that the bending angles are small. The first part is devoted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Volker Perlick