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We model massive compact objects in galactic nuclei as stationary, axially-symmetric naked singularities in the Einstein-massless scalar field theory and study the resulting gravitational lensing. In the weak deflection limit we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Galin N. Gyulchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

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

The gravitational deflection of light signals restricted in the polar-axis plane of a moving Kerr-Newman (KN) black hole with a constant velocity along the polar axis is studied within the second post-Minkowskian (PM) approximation. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Xuan Wang , Wenbin Lin , Bo Yang , Guansheng He

We generalize our previous work on gravitational lensing by a Kerr black hole in the strong deflection limit, removing the restriction to observers on the equatorial plane. Starting from the Schwarzschild solution and adding corrections up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Bozza , F. De Luca , G. Scarpetta

We provide new very simple and compact expressions for the efficient calculation of gravitational lens optical scalars for Kerr spacetime which are exact along any null geodesic. These new results are obtained recurring to well known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Ezequiel F. Boero , Osvaldo M. Moreschi

The metric outside an isolated object made up of ordinary matter is bound to be the classical Schwarzschild vacuum solution of General Relativity. Nevertheless, some solutions are known (e.g. Morris-Thorne wormholes) that do not match…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-01 V. Bozza , A. Postiglione

We study the deflection of light by a magnetic dipole field in the generalized Born-Infeld electrodynamics. Using the effective index of refraction and the trajectory equation based on geometric optics, we compute the weak bending angle of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-06 Jin Young Kim

This work investigates several key aspects of a non--commutative theory with mass deformation. We calculate thermodynamic properties of the system and compare our results with recent literature. We examine the \textit{quasinormal} modes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-30 N. Heidari , H. Hassanabadi , A. A. Araújo Filho , J. Kriz , S. Zare , P. J. Porfírio

In this paper, we study massless braneworld black holes as gravitational lenses. We find the weak and the strong deflection limits for the deflection angle, from which we calculate the positions and magnifications of the images. We compare…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-25 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra

We consider the bending angle of the trajectory of a photon incident from and deflected to infinity around a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. We treat the bending angle as a function of the squared reciprocal of the impact parameter and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-04 Tadashi Sasaki

We study gravitational lensing by a Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) black hole in the weak field limit. We obtain the basic equations for the deflection angle and time delay and find analytical expressions for the positions and amplifications of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Sereno

We present a framework that reformulates gravitational lensing as an optical phenomenon governed by an effective refractive index, enabling exploration of modified gravity theories using undergraduate-level mathematics and optics. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Romy Hanang Setya Budhi

In this article, we demonstrate the weak gravitational lensing in the context of Bocharova-Bronnikov-Melnikov-Bekenstein (BBMB) black hole. To this desire, we derive the deflection angle of light in a plasma medium by BBMB black hole using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-30 Wajiha Javed , Muhammad Bilal Khadim , Ali Övgün

The gravitational lensing effects in the weak gravitational field by exotic lenses have been investigated intensively to find nonluminous exotic objects. Gravitational lensing based on 1/r^n fall-off metric, as a one-parameter model that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-25 Naoki Tsukamoto , Takao Kitamura , Koki Nakajima , Hideki Asada

We estimate the changes in solar system tests of general relativity when "dark energy" arises from a Weyl scaling invariant action, using the modified Schwarzschild-like spherically symmetric solution obtained in this case by Adler and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-11 Stephen L. Adler

We study the motion of particles in the background of a scalar-tensor theory of gravity in which the scalar field is kinetically coupled to the Einstein tensor and we present the null geodesic structure for asymptotically flat, AdS, and dS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-15 D. A. Carvajal , P. A. González , Marco Olivares , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Yerko Vásquez

The equations of null geodesics in the STU family of rotating black hole solutions of supergravity theory, which may be considered as deformations of the vacuum Kerr metric, are completely integrable. We propose that they be used as a foil…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-26 M. Cvetic , G. W. Gibbons , C. N. Pope

This paper aims to investigate the astrophysical applicability of the electrically and magnetically charged black hole solutions obtained in a model of nonlinear electrodynamics proposed by Kruglov (Ann. Phys. Berlin 2017, 529, 170073).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-18 O. Gurtug , M. Mangut

We study the weak gravitational lensing effect of Non-Bocharova-Bronnikov-Melnikov-Bekenstein (BBMB) black hole in new massive conformal gravity. We analyze the deflection angle of light caused by new massive conformal gravity by using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Muhammad Yasir , Xia Tiecheng , Farzan Mushtaq , Kazuharu Bamba

The physics associated with spherically symmetric charged black holes is analyzed from the point of view of using weak gravitational lensing as a means for determining the dimensionality of spacetime. In particular, for exact solutions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-28 Jop Briet , David Hobill