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General relativistic deflection of light by mass, dipole, and quadrupole moments of gravitational field of a moving massive planet in the Solar system is derived in the approximation of the linearized Einstein equations. All terms of order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-12-05 Sergei Kopeikin , Valeri Makarov

Various authors have investigated the problem of light deflection by radially moving gravitational lenses - with inconsistent results. In this paper we generalize the calculations for arbitrary lens velocities and show that, to first order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Olaf Wucknitz , Ulrich Sperhake

The properties of light in the presence of electromagnetic and gravitational fields are compared. Once one takes account of the fact that clock rates vary with distance from a massive object, it is argued that in an absolute sense light…

General Physics · Physics 2009-04-22 Robert J. Buenker

Before we discuss the deflection of light in a gravitational field, we give a brief overview of some basic physical formulas on photon properties, generation and propagation. The much debated problems of the redshift and the photon…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Klaus Wilhelm , Bhola N. Dwivedi , Karsten Muller

We determine the angle of deflection of light by the gravitational field inside and outside a spherical body with a homogeneous mass density. We show that the largest deflections, which can be measured by weak gravitational lensing, are in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Nikodem Popławski

We consider the bending of light around a compact astrophysical object with both the electric field and the magnetic field in Einstein-Born-Infeld theory. From the null geodesic of a light ray passing a massive object with electric charge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-21 Jin Young Kim

Both massless light ray and objects with nonzero mass experience trajectory bending in a gravitational field. In this work the bending of trajectories of massive objects in a Schwarzschild spacetime and the corresponding gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-02 Xionghui Liu , Nan Yang , Junji Jia

We study the deflection and time delay of light by the Sun in general scalar extensions of the Standard Model which may violate the equivalence principle. Despite the presence of the interaction $\phi FF$ or $\phi F \tilde{F}$ between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-14 Dongjin Chway

The deflection of light ray passing near the Sun is calculated with quantum-corrected Newton's gravitation law. The satisfactory result suggests that there may exist other theoretical possibilities besides the theory of relativity.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhen Wang

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

Compact objects with magnetic dipole are considered as gravitational lenses. The presence of strong magnetic field near the photon sphere can affect the trajectory of light. We compute the deflection angle near the photon sphere on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Jin Young Kim

In 2007 Rindler and Ishak showed that, contrary to previous claims, the value of the cosmological constant does have an effect on light deflection by a gravitating object in an expanding universe, modeled by a Schwarzschild-de~Sitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-25 Mir Emad Aghili , Brett Bolen , Luca Bombelli

Light bending is one of the significant predictions of general relativity (GR) and it has been confirmed with great accuracy during the last one hundred years. In this paper, we semiclassically calculate the deflection angle for the photons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Lei Feng

Gravitational lensing - the deflection of light rays by gravitating matter - has become a major tool in the armoury of the modern cosmologist. Proposed nearly a hundred years ago as a key feature of Einstein's theory of General Relativity,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Tommaso Treu , Richard S. Ellis

Light does not travel in a perfectly straight line when it passes near massive objects. In this work, we calculate the gravitational deflection of light using the gauge theory of unified gravity [Rep. Prog. Phys. 88, 057802 (2025)],…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 Mikko Partanen , Jukka Tulkki

In the seventies, scientists observed discrepancies of the bending of light around the Sun based on Einstein's prediction of the curvature of star light due to the mass of the Sun. We claim that the interior electromagnetic properties of…

General Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jacob T. Fokkema , Peter M. van den Berg

We have derived the relationship between the radial proper distance, h, and the polar angle, phi, for a light ray that is emitted and travels in the neighborhood of the Earth's surface. General relativity predicts that, even locally, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-09-25 Eduardo Díaz-Miguel

By using a method improved with a generalized optical metric, the deflection of light for an observer and source at finite distance from a lens object in a stationary, axisymmetric and asymptotically flat spacetime has been recently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-08 Toshiaki Ono , Asahi Ishihara , Hideki Asada

Light deflection in the post-linear gravitational field of two bounded point-like masses is treated. Both the light source and the observer are assumed to be located at infinity in an asymptotically flat space. The equations of light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael H. Brügmann

We study the influence of general lens and source velocities on the gravitational deflection of light by single and two-point-mass microlenses with general axis orientation. We demonstrate that in all cases the lens equation preserves its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Heyrovsky