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We investigate gravitational lensing by a photon sphere in a Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m naked singularity spacetime in strong deflection limits. Because of the nonexistence of an event horizon and the existence of a potential barrier near an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-06 Naoki Tsukamoto

In this paper we study gravitational lensing in the strong field limit from the perspective of cosmic censorship, to investigate whether or not naked singularities, if at all they exist in nature, can be distinguished from black holes. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-21 Satyabrata Sahu , Mandar Patil , D. Narasimha , Pankaj S. Joshi

We model massive compact objects in galactic nuclei as stationary, axially-symmetric naked singularities in the Einstein-massless scalar field theory and study the resulting gravitational lensing. In the weak deflection limit we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Galin N. Gyulchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

In this work are reviewed several aspects of gravitational lensing produced by astrophysical bodies that strongly curve the spacetime in their vicinity. When an object with a photon sphere (e.g. a black hole) is interposed between a source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-15 Ernesto F. Eiroa

Konoplya and Zhidenko have proposed recently a rotating non-Kerr black hole metric beyond General Relativity and make an estimate for the possible deviations from the Kerr solution with the data of GW 150914. We here study the strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-11 Shangyun Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We investigate strong gravitational lensing by a marginally unstable photon sphere in a Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m naked singularity spacetime. Using the Picard-Fuchs equation, we derive full-order power series expressions for the deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-10 Tadashi Sasaki

In this paper, the null geodesics and gravitational lensing in a nonsingular spacetime are investigated. According to the nature of the null geodesics, the spacetime is divided into several cases. In the weak deflection limit, we find the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-12 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu , Chun-E Fu

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

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

The gravitational lensing of relativistic and nonrelativistic neutral massive particles in the black-bounce-Schwarzschild black hole spacetime is investigated in the strong deflection limit. Beginning with the explicit equations of motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Guansheng He , Jiaxu Huang , Zhongwen Feng , Ghulam Mustafa , Wenbin Lin

A static and circularly symmetric lens characterized by mass and scalar charge parameters is constructed. For the small values of the scalar charge to the mass ratio, the gravitational lensing is qualitatively similar to the case of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 K. S. Virbhadra , D. Narasimha , S. M. Chitre

In this article we study weak gravitational lensing of regular Bardeen black hole which has scalar charge $g$ and mass $m.$ We investigate the angular position and magnification of non-relativistic images in two cases depending on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 Hossein Ghaffarnejad , Hassan Niad

Strong field gravitational lensing in the Brans-Dicke theory has been studied. The deflection angle for photons passing very close to the photon sphere is estimated for the static spherically symmetric space-time of the theory and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-02 Kabita Sarkar , Arunava Bhadra

We investigate the gravitational lensing scenario due to Schwarzschild-like black hole surrounded by quintessence (Kiselev black hole). We work for the special case of Kiselev black hole where we take the state parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 Azka Younas , Mubasher Jamil , Sebastian Bahamonde , Saqib Hussain

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

In this paper we have investigated the gravitational lensing phenomenon in the strong field regime for a regular, charged, static, non-linear black hole having a electrodynamics source. We have obtained the angle of deflection and compared…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-09 Tuhina Manna , Farook Rahaman , Sabiruddin Molla , Jhumpa Bhadra , Hasrat Hussain Shah

Strong gravitational lensing from black holes results in the formation of relativistic images, in particular, relativistic Einstein rings. For objects with event horizons, the radius of the unstable light ring (photon sphere) is the lowest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-21 Rajibul Shaikh , Pritam Banerjee , Suvankar Paul , Tapobrata Sarkar

We examine the gravitational lensing phenomenon caused by photon spheres in the Born-Infeld naked singularity spacetime, where gravity is coupled with Born-Infeld electrodynamics. Specifically, our focus lies on relativistic images…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Yiqian Chen , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

Gravitational lensing constitutes one of the most direct observational manifestations of spacetime curvature and provides a powerful probe of compact astrophysical objects. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of the bending of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Partha Pratim Basumallick , Saheb Das , Bhaswati Mandal , Subhadip Sau

We examine a class of charged black holes in scalar-tensor gravity as gravitational lenses. We find the deflection angle in the strong deflection limit, from which we obtain the positions and the magnifications of the relativistic images.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-01 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra
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