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We analyze gravitational lensing, in particular the shadow and photon rings, in the Ernst spacetime, also known as the Schwarzschild-Melvin spacetime, which describes a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a homogenous magnetic field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Muhammad Haider Khan , Volker Perlick

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 regular and asymptotically flat phantom black holes as gravitational lenses. We obtain the deflection angle in both the weak and the strong deflection limits, from which we calculate the positions, magnifications, and time delays…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-27 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra

We revisit the gravitational lensing of light or gravitational waves by Schwarzschild black hole in geometric optics. Instead of a single massless particle, we investigate the collective behavior of a congruence of light/gravitational rays,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-11 Zhao Li , Xiao Guo , Tan Liu , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao

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

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of weak gravitational lensing and its current applications in cosmology. We begin by introducing the fundamental concepts of gravitational lensing and derive the key equations for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 J. Prat , D. Bacon

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

In this paper we have investigated the gravitational lensing in a spherically symmetric spacetime with torsion in the generalized Einstein-Cartan-Kibble-Sciama (ECKS) theory of gravity by considering higher order terms. The torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-07 Lu Zhang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

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

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 investigate the gravitational lensing of a Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole with a global monopole at finite distances. In this asymptotically nonflat spacetime, the deflection angle of light is decomposed into two parts: the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Yi Lu , Xiao-Yin Pan , Meng-Yun Lai , Qing-hai Wang

Dark matter and dark energy dominate the behavior of our universe. The dark matter usually forms halo structures in large number of galaxies. Properties of dark matter halo can be revealed and understood from the gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-12 Chen-Kai Qiao , Mi Zhou

After exactly a century since the formulation of the general theory of relativity, the phenomenon of gravitational lensing is still an extremely powerful method for investigating in astrophysics and cosmology. Indeed, it is adopted to study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-25 Francesco De Paolis , Mosè Giordano , Gabriele Ingrosso , Luigi Manni , Achille Nucita , Francesco Strafella

The gravitational lensing of supermassive black holes surrounded by dark matter halo has attracted a great number of interests in recent years. However, many studies employed simplified dark matter density models, which makes it very hard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-25 Yi-Gao Liu , Chen-Kai Qiao , Jun Tao

This thesis contributes to the field of gravitational lensing (GL) and observational cosmology. We discuss the use of gravitational lensing as a tool in search of exotic objects in the Universe. In the next chapter the concordance of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-18 Margarita Safonova

We have developed a realistic, fully general relativistic computer code to simulate optical projection in a strong, spherically symmetric gravitational field. The standard theoretical analysis of optical projection for an observer in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Bakala , P. Cermak , S. Hledik , Z. Stuchlik , K. Truparova

In the present work, we analyze the gravitational deflection for a light beam in the weak and strong field regimes for the gravitational analogue geometry of an acoustic black hole (ABH) and acoustic black-bounce (ABB). Motivationally, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 C. F. S. Pereira , A. R. Soares , M. V. de S. Silva , R. L. L. Vitória , H. Belich

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

In this manuscript, we provide a comprehensive study of gravitational lensing by dark compact objects predicted by a Modified Gravity (MOG) based on the Scalar-Vector-Tensor action, and the aim is to analyze new insights into the nature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Nagina Rehman , Zoe C. S. Chan , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou

In this work the space-time geometry of the halo region in spiral galaxies is obtained considering the observed flat galactic rotation curve feature, invoking the Tully-Fisher relation and assuming the presence of cold dark matter in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-15 Samrat Ghosh , Arunava Bhadra , Amitabha Mukhopadhyay