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Gravitational lensing allows us to probe the structure of matter on a broad range of astronomical scales, and as light from a distant source traverses an intervening galaxy, compact matter such as planets, stars, and black holes act as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-09 Hugh Garsden , Geraint F. Lewis

We discuss the phenomenology of gravitational lensing in the purely metric $f\left(\chi\right)$ gravity, an $f(R)$ gravity where the action of the gravitational field depends on the source mass. We focus on the strong lensing regime in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 M. C. Campigotto , A. Diaferio , X. Hernandez , L. Fatibene

An exact solution is obtained for the gravitational bending of light in static, spherically symmetric metrics which includes the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime and also the Mannheim-Kazanas metric of conformal Weyl gravity. From the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-06 Yen-Kheng Lim , Qing-hai Wang

Most problems in gravitational lensing require numerical solutions. The most frequent types of problems are (1) finding multiple images of a single source and classifying the images according to their properties like magnification or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Bartelmann

We discuss weak lensing characteristics in the gravitational field of a compact object in the low-energy approximation of fourth order f(R) gravity theory. The particular solution is characterized by a gravitational strength parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-05 Zsolt Horváth , László Á. Gergely , David Hobill , Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis

Gravitational lensing is the phenomenon arising when light rays are deflected by the mass between the source and the observer. Largely magnified and highly distorted images of background galaxies are formed by these angular deflections if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Atınç Çağan Şengül

Adopting the strong field limit approach, we investigate the strong gravitational lensing of a spherically symmetric spacetime in the Einstein-Proca theory. With the strong field limit coefficient, three observable quantities are obtained,…

General Physics · Physics 2015-07-19 Guoping Li , Yan Zhang , Li Zhang , Zhongwen Feng , Xiaotao Zu

A generalized lens equation for weak gravitational fields in Schwarzschild metric and valid for finite distances of source and observer from the light deflecting body is suggested. The magnitude of neglected terms in the generalized lens…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Sven Zschocke

Gravitational lensing is investigated in the weak field limit of fourth order gravity in which the Lagrangian of the gravitational field is modified by replacing the Ricci scalar curvature R with an analytical expression $f(R)$. Considering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Capozziello , V. F. Cardone , A. Troisi

Observations of gravitational lenses in strong gravitational fields give us a clue to understanding dark compact objects. In this paper, we extend a method to obtain a deflection angle in a strong deflection limit provided by Bozza [Phys.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-05 Naoki Tsukamoto

The gravitational lensing of gravitational waves should be treated in the wave optics instead of the geometrical optics when the wave length $\lambda$ of the gravitational waves is larger than the Schwarzschild radius of the lens mass $M$.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ryuichi Takahashi

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

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

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

In the present work, we theoretically investigate light deflection in the weak and strong field regimes for two regular spacetimes with corrections from loop quantum gravity. We treat analytically the expansions for both limits and use them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-19 A. R. Soares , C. F. S. Pereira , R. L. L. Vitória , Marcos V. de S. Silva , H. Belich

In a strong gravitational lensing system, the distorted light from a source is analysed to infer the properties of the lens. However, light emitted by the lens itself can contaminate the image of the source, introducing systematic errors in…

Gravitational lensing is one of the most impressive celestial phenomena, which has interesting behaviors in its strong field limit. Near such limit, Bozza finds that the deflection angle of light is well-approximated by a logarithmic term…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Xiao-Jun Gao , Ji-Ming Chen , Hongsheng Zhang , Yihao Yin , Ya-Peng Hu

Strongly gravitational lensing systems (SGL) encodes cosmology information in source/lens distance ratios $\mathcal{D}_{\rm obs}=\mathcal{D}_{\rm ls}/\mathcal{D}_{\rm s}$, which can be used to precisely constrain cosmological parameters. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-05 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Shuaibo Geng , Yuting Liu , Xuan Ji , Zong-Hong Zhu

The gravitational field of supermassive black holes is able to strongly bend light rays emitted by nearby sources. When the deflection angle exceeds $\pi$, gravitational lensing can be analytically approximated by the so-called strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Bozza , G. Scarpetta

This paper reviews a phenomenological approach to the gravitational lensing by exotic objects such as the Ellis wormhole lens, where exotic lens objects may follow a non-standard form of the equation of state or may obey a modified gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-07 Hideki Asada