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In most analytical studies of light ray propagation in curved spacetimes around a gravitating object surrounded by a medium, it is assumed that the medium is a cold nonmagnetized plasma. The distinctive feature of this environment is that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-18 Barbora Bezděková , Oleg Yu. Tsupko , Christian Pfeifer

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

\begin{abstract} Using the Keeton and Petters approach, we determine the deflection angle. We also investigate the motion of photons around a parameterized black hole in the presence of non-magnetized cold plasma by using a new ray-tracing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-20 Xiaoling He , Tianyu Xu , Yun Yu , Anosha Karamat , Rimsha Babar , Riasat Ali

Analytical studies of light bending in a dispersive medium near compact objects, e.g., black holes or neutron stars, are most challenged by a suitable definition of the medium. The most realistic model would be a hot magnetized plasma. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Barbora Bezděková , Volker Perlick

The influence of plasma on different effects of gravitational lensing is reviewed. Using the Hamiltonian approach for geometrical optics in a medium in the presence of gravity, an exact formula for the photon deflection angle by a black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-31 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , O. Yu. Tsupko

The deflection of a ray of light passing close to a gravitational mass, is generally calculated from the null geodesic which the light ray (photon) follows. However, there is an alternate approach, where the effect of gravitation on the ray…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-08 A. K. Sen

The deflection of light ray as it passes around a gravitational mass can be calculated by different methods. Such calculations are generally done by using the null geodesics under both strong field and weak field approximation. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-19 Saswati Roy , A. K. Sen

In this paper, light propagation in a pressure-free non-magnetized plasma on Kerr spacetime is considered, which is a continuation of our previous study [Phys. Rev. D 95, 104003 (2017)]. It is assumed throughout that the plasma density is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-20 Volker Perlick , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

We explored the effect of space-time geometry on the trajectory of light rays in the context of a charged, rotating black hole. We derived an analytical expression for the deflection of light rays in Kerr-Newman space-time geometry, using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 Saswati Roy , Shubham Kala , Prasanjit Ghosh , Hemwati Nandan , Asoke K. Sen

This paper investigates gravitational lensing effects in the presence of plasma in the strong deflection limit, which corresponds to light rays circling around a compact object and forming higher-order images. While previous studies of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Fabiano Feleppa , Valerio Bozza , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

We investigate the deflection angle in a strong deflection limit for a marginally unstable photon sphere in a general asymptotically flat, static and spherically symmetric spacetime under some assumptions to calculate observables. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-12 Naoki Tsukamoto

We investigate the influence of plasma presence on relativistic images formed by Schwarzschild black hole lensing. When a gravitating body is surrounded by a plasma, the lensing angle depends on a frequency of the electromagnetic wave due…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oleg Yu. Tsupko , Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

This article computes the bending angle of a hairy black hole at weak field limits. The Gauss-Bonnet theorem is applied to the Gaussian optical curvature; this gives a way to calculate the hairy black hole light bending angle using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Riasat Ali , Xia Tiecheng , Muhammad Awais , Rimsha Babar

Using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, we compute and examine the deflection angle of light rays by rotating regular black holes with a cosmological constant. By the help of optical geometries, we first deal with the Hayward black holes with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 A. Belhaj , H. Belmahi , M. Benali , H. El Moumni

The aim of the present work is twofold: first, we present general remarks about the application of recent procedures to compute the deflection angle in spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat spacetimes, taking into account finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-12 Gabriel Crisnejo , Emanuel Gallo , Adam Rogers

Using the geodesic method and the perturbative approach, we study the deflection of light by time-periodic spherically symmetric gravitational fields. Assuming the weakness of the gravitational field, we derive general formulas that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-16 Vladimir A. Koutvitsky , Eugene M. Maslov

We investigate the light deflection and the shadow characteristics of a non-minimally coupled Horndeski black hole surrounded by a magnetized, cold, pressureless plasma medium, while considering both homogeneous and non-homogeneous plasma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 Shubham Kala , Jaswinder Singh

The bending angle of light is a central quantity in the theory of gravitational lensing. We develop an analytical perturbation framework for calculating the bending angle of light rays lensed by a Schwarzschild black hole. Using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Savitri V. Iyer , Arlie O. Petters

We investigate the gravitational lensing of massless particles around a Kerr-Sen black hole immersed in a magnetized, cold, pressureless plasma medium. Both homogeneous and inhomogeneous plasma distributions are considered in this study to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Saswati Roy , Shubham Kala , Sayanika Modak , Hemwati Nandan , Amare Abebe

The properties of light rays around compact objects surrounded by a plasma are affected by both strong gravitational fields described by a general-relativistic spacetime and by a dispersive and refractive medium, characterized by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-22 Barbora Bezdekova , Volker Perlick , Jiri Bicak
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