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The statistics of gravitational lensing can provide us with a very powerful probe of the mass distribution of matter in the universe. By comparing predicted strong lensing probabilities with observations, we can test the mass distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tong-Jie Zhang

We firstly present a new asymptotical flat and spherically symmetric solution in the generalized Einstein-Cartan-Kibble-Sciama (ECKS) theory of gravity and then investigate the propagation of photon in this background. This solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-04 Songbai Chen , Lu Zhang , Jiliang Jing

We study weak gravitational lensing around a compact object with arbitrary quadrupole moment in the presence of plasma. The studied compact objects are considered to be spherically symmetric. The additional parameter $\epsilon$ regulating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-16 Hrishikesh Chakrabarty , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Ahmadjon A. Abdujabbarov , Cosimo Bambi

Similar to the light, gravitational waves traveling in multiple paths may arrive at the same location if there is a gravitational lens on their way. Apart from the magnification of the amplitudes and the time delay between the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-19 Shaoqi Hou , Xi-Long Fan , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitational lensing describes the bending of the trajectories of light and gravitational waves due to the gravitational potential of a massive object. Strong lensing by galaxies can create multiple images with different overall…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-26 Simon M. C. Yeung , Mark H. Y. Cheung , Joseph A. J. Gais , Otto A. Hannuksela , Tjonnie G. F. Li

We present equations for the gravitational lensing flexion expected for an elliptical lens mass distribution. These can be reduced to one-dimensional finite integrals, thus saving significant computing time over a full two-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. J. Hawken , S. L. Bridle

Singularities of caustics appeared in gravitational lensing effect are discussed analytically. Multipole expansion model of lensing object is mainly studied since it is tractable and universal. Our analyses are confirmed by numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Y. Kakigi , T. Okamura , T. Fukuyama

We analyzed the influence of static gravitational field on the vacuum and proposed the concept of inhomogeneous vacuum. According to the corresponding Fermat's principle in the general relativity, we derived a graded refractive index of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Xing-Hao Ye , Qiang Lin

In astronomy, gravitational lensing of light leads to the formation of multiple images, arcs, Einstein rings, and, most important, the shadow of black holes. Analogously in the vicinity of a massive compact object massive particles,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-20 Torben C. Frost

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

We consider resolved imaging of faint sources with the solar gravitational lens (SGL) while treating the Sun as an extended gravitating body. We use our new diffraction integral that describes how a spherical electromagnetic wave is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-01 Slava G. Turyshev , Viktor T. Toth

Gravitational lensing is the phenomenon where the presence of matter (called a lens) bends the path of light-like trajectories travelling nearby. Similar to the geometric optics limit of electromagnetic waves, gravitational lensing of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-20 Aniruddha Chakraborty , Suvodip Mukherjee

The probability distribution of lens image separations is calculated for the ``standard'' gravitational lensing statistics model in an arbitrary, flat Robertson-Walker universe, where lensing galaxies are singular isothermal spheres that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Myeong-Gu Park

The fraction of high-redshift sources which are multiply-imaged by intervening galaxies is strongly dependent on the cosmological constant, and so can be a useful probe of the cosmological model. However its power is limited by various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel J. Mortlock , Rachel L. Webster

We investigate statistical distributions of differences in gravitational-lensing deflections between two light rays, the so-called lensing excursion angles. A probability distribution function of the lensing excursion angles, which plays a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takashi Hamana , Matthias Bartelmann , Naoki Yoshida , Christoph Pfrommer

Strong gravitational lensing produces multiple images of a gravitational wave (GW) signal, which can be observed by detectors as time-separated copies of the same event. It has been shown that under favourable circumstances, by combining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-04 Harsh Narola , Justin Janquart , Leïla Haegel , K. Haris , Otto A. Hannuksela , Chris Van Den Broeck

We examine a gravitational lens model inspired by modified gravity theories and exotic matter and energy. We study an asymptotically flat, static, and spherically symmetric spacetime that is modified in such a way that the spacetime metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Takao Kitamura , Koki Nakajima , Hideki Asada

In this work, the strong lensing effect of the memory signal was considered. In the geometric optics limit, the lensed memory signal becomes oscillatory, while the unlensed is basically monotonic. This is because only the high frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Ruanjing Zhang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Shaoqi Hou , Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Zong-Hong Zhu

When gravitational waves travel from their source to an observer, they interact with matter structures along their path, causing distinct deformations in their waveforms. In this study we introduce a novel theoretical framework for wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-31 Ginevra Braga , Alice Garoffolo , Angelo Ricciardone , Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese

We study gravitational lensing by $k-n$ generalized black-bounce space-times both in regimes of weak and strong field approximations. These metrics interpolate between regular black holes and one-way or traversable wormholes. First, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 C. Furtado , A. L. A. Moreira , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfirio