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We consider a Kerr black hole acting as a gravitational deflector within the geometrical optics, and point source approximations. The Kerr black hole gravitational lens geometry consisting of an observer and a source located far away and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Samuel E. Vázquez , Ernesto P. Esteban

In this paper, we discuss the weak gravitational lensing in the context of stringy black holes. Initially, we examine the deflection angle of photon by charged stringy black hole. For this desire, we compute the Gaussian optical curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-02 Wajiha Javed , Muhammad Bilal Khadim , Ali Övgün

We show with the help of Fermat's principle that every lightlike geodesic in the NUT metric projects to a geodesic of a two-dimensional Riemannian metric which we call the optical metric. The optical metric is defined on a (coordinate) cone…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-25 Mourad Halla , Volker Perlick

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

A new geometric method to determine the deflection of light in the equatorial plane of the Kerr solution is presented, whose optical geometry is a surface with a Finsler metric of Randers type. Applying the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 M. C. Werner

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we introduce a geometric approach to study the circular orbit of a particle in static and spherically symmetric spacetime based on Jacobi metric. Second, we apply the circular orbit to study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-29 Zonghai Li , Guodong Zhang , Ali Övgün

In this work, we probe the weak gravitational lensing by a static spherically symmetric black hole in view of $f(R)$ gravity in the background of the non-plasma medium (vacuum). We provide a discussion on a light ray in a static black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Surajit Mandal

After discussing some subtle issues concerning the computation of deflection angle, a general but simple expression of bending angle of light rays in weak deflection limit has been presented for a general static and spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-07-21 Arunava Bhadra

In this article, we extend the strong deflection limit to calculate the deflection angle for a class of geometries which are asymptotically locally flat. In particular, we study the deflection of light in the surroundings of spherical black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-22 Fabrizio Canfora , Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra

In this paper the deflection angle of light by a rotating Teo wormhole spacetime is calculated in the weak limit approximation. We mainly focus on the weak deflection angle by revealing the gravitational lensing as a partially global…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-31 Kimet Jusufi , Ali Övgün

We present a framework for the study of lensing in spherically symmetric spacetimes within the context of f(R) gravity. Equations for the propagation of null geodesics, together with an expression for the bending angle are derived for any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-25 Anne Marie Nzioki , Peter K. S. Dunsby , Rituparno Goswami , Sante Carloni

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 study the weak-field deflection of light by mass distributions described by two-power-law densities $\rho(R)=\rho_0 R^{-\alpha}(R+1)^{\beta-\alpha}$, where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are non-negative integers. New analytic expressions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-19 Karlo de Leon , Ian Vega

In this work, we investigate the signatures of black holes within an effective quantum gravity framework recently proposed in the literature [1] . We begin by outlining the general setup, highlighting the two distinct models under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-12 N. Heidari , A. A. Araújo Filho , R. C. Pantig , A. Övgün

We present an analytical treatment of gravitational lensing by a Kerr black hole in the weak deflection limit. Lightlike geodesics are expanded as a Taylor series up to and including third-order terms in m/b and a/b, where m is the black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Sereno , F. De Luca

The exact metric of a moving Kerr black hole with an arbitrary constant velocity is derived in Kerr-Schild coordinates. We then calculate the null equatorial gravitational deflection caused by a radially moving Kerr source up to the second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Weijun Li , Zhongwen Feng , Xia Zhou , Xueling Mu , Guansheng He

The method of Rindler and Ishak enables one to study how light is bent in the vicinity of a non-rotating and spherically symmetric gravitational lens. This method mainly aims to investigate the role of cosmological constant in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-08 Mert Mangut , Huriye Gürsel , İzzet Sakallı

An analysis of null geodesics in Schwarzschild de Sitter space is presented with special attention to their global `bending angles', local measurable angles, and the involvement of the cosmological constant. We make use of a general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-19 Dmitri Lebedev , Kayll Lake

We investigate gravitational lensing and particle motions around non-asymptotically flat black hole spacetime in non-linear, ghost-free massive gravity theory, called de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley (dRGT) massive gravity. Deflection angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-23 Sirachak Panpanich , Supakchai Ponglertsakul , Lunchakorn Tannukij

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