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As an extension of our previous paper, instead of the total deflection angle $\alpha$, we will mainly focus on discussing the measurable angle of the light ray $\psi$ at the position of the observer in Kerr--de Sitter spacetime which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-04 Hideyoshi Arakida

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

Gravitational scattering of the electromagnetic field from a heavy scalar field provides a fundamental testbed for understanding the deflection of light by massive bodies. In many approaches based on effective field theory, the calculation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-19 Yihan Ma , Ding-fang Zeng

In this paper the problem of gravitational deflection of relativistic charged massive particles in slowly rotating Kerr-Newman black holes is considered. Toward this purpose we have used two methods: Firstly, we have applied the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-01 Kimet Jusufi

We develop a non--perturbative method that yields analytical expressions for the deflection angle of light in a general static and spherically symmetric metric. It is an improvement on a method previously devised by the authors, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Paolo Amore , Mayra Cervantes , Arturo De Pace , Francisco M. Fernandez

The deflection of light rays near gravitating objects can be influenced not only by gravity itself but also by the surrounding medium. Analytical studies of such effects are possible within the geometrical optics approximation, where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Christian Pfeifer , Barbora Bezděková , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

Deflection angles of massive test particles moving along an unbound trajectory in the Schwarzschild metric are considered for the case of large deflection. We analytically consider the strong deflection limit, which is opposite to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Oleg Yu. Tsupko

The influence of the medium on the gravitational deflection of light rays is widely discussed in literature for the simplest non-trivial case: cold non-magnetized plasma. In this article, we generalize these studies to the case of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Oleg Yu. Tsupko

In this paper, we study the weak gravitational deflection of relativistic massive particles for a receiver and source at finite distance from the lens in stationary, axisymmetric and asymptotically flat spacetimes. For this purpose, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Zonghai Li , Junji Jia

In this paper, we investigate the deflection of a charged particle moving in the equatorial plane of Kerr-Newman spacetime, focusing on weak field limit. To this end, we use the Jacobi geometry, which can be described in three equivalent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-08 Zonghai Li , Junji Jia

A perturbative method to compute the total travel time of both null and lightlike rays in arbitrary static spherically symmetric spacetimes in the weak field limit is proposed. The resultant total time takes a quasi-series form of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-01 Haotian Liu , Junji Jia

In this work we extend the approach used in [Emanuel Gallo and Osvaldo M. Moreschi, Phys. Rev. D 83, 12 083007 (2011)] to the study of weak gravitational lensing in a plasma medium. First, we present expressions for the deflection angle and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Gabriel Crisnejo , Emanuel Gallo , José R. Villanueva

Recently, we proposed a generalized Gibbons-Werner (GW) method for analyzing particle trajectories in rotating spacetimes, regardless of their asymptotic behavior [Huang \textit{et al.},…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Yang Huang , Xiangyun Fu , Zhenyan Lu , Xin Qin

We calculate the deflection angle, as well as the positions and magnifications of the lensed images, in the case of covariant $f(T)$ gravity. We first extract the spherically symmetric solutions for both the pure-tetrad and the covariant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-26 Xin Ren , Yaqi Zhao , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Yi-Fu Cai

We provide an analytic method to discriminate among different types of black holes on the ground of their strong field gravitational lensing properties. We expand the deflection angle of the photon in the neighbourhood of complete capture,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Bozza

We calculate the deflection angle of light from a distant source by a galaxy cluster in Weyl's conformal gravity. The general method of calculation is first applied to calculate the deflection angle in Schwarzschild-de Sitter (Kottler)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-18 Oguzhan Kasikci , Cemsinan Deliduman

Continuing work initiated in an earlier publication [Ishihara, Suzuki, Ono, Kitamura, Asada, Phys. Rev. D {\bf 94}, 084015 (2016) ], we discuss a method of calculating the bending angle of light in a static, spherically symmetric and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-22 Asahi Ishihara , Yusuke Suzuki , Toshiaki Ono , Hideki Asada

Gravitational light deflection is known as one of three classical tests of general relativity and the angle of deflection may be computed explicitly using approximate or exact solutions describing the gravitational force generated from a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-28 Chenmei Xu , Yisong Yang

Recent experiments on ultra slow light in strongly dispersive media by several research groups reporting slowing down of the optical pulses down to speeds of a few metres per second encourage us to examine the intriguing possibility of…

Optics · Physics 2007-12-27 N. Kumar

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