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We extend to higher order a recently published method for calculating the deflection angle of light in a general static and spherically symmetric metric. Since the method is convergent we obtain very accurate analytical expressions that we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Amore , Santiago Arceo , Francisco Fernandez

We investigate the deflection angle in a strong deflection limit for a marginally unstable photon sphere in a general asymptotically flat, static and spherically symmetric spacetime under some assumptions to calculate observables. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-12 Naoki Tsukamoto

We use the perturbative method to study the influence of the magnetic field on the weak deflection angle of charged signals in magnetized stationary and axisymmetric spacetimes within general electromagnetic potentials. The deflection angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 Qianchuan Wang , Junji Jia

We calculate the deflection angle of light from a distant source by a galaxy cluster in Weyl's conformal gravity. The general method of calculation is first applied to calculate the deflection angle in Schwarzschild-de Sitter (Kottler)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-18 Oguzhan Kasikci , Cemsinan Deliduman

We calculate the deflection angle, as well as the positions and magnifications of the lensed images, in the case of covariant $f(T)$ gravity. We first extract the spherically symmetric solutions for both the pure-tetrad and the covariant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-26 Xin Ren , Yaqi Zhao , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Yi-Fu Cai

The deflection of a ray of light passing close to a gravitational mass, is generally calculated from the null geodesic which the light ray (photon) follows. However, there is an alternate approach, where the effect of gravitation on the ray…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-08 A. K. Sen

Although the formulas for the light deflection due to quadrupole gravitational field of deflecting bodies are well known, the formulas are rather complicated, so that massive computations of quadrupole light deflection (e.g., in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sven Zschocke , Sergei A. Klioner

The deflection angle of a light ray passing the Schwarzschild (spherically symmetric vacuum) black hole was calculated by Charles Galton Darwin in 1959 in terms of the elliptic integral of the first kind. This calculation has been repeated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-23 Don N. Page

The deflection of light ray as it passes around a gravitational mass can be calculated by different methods. Such calculations are generally done by using the null geodesics under both strong field and weak field approximation. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-19 Saswati Roy , A. K. Sen

We will mainly discuss the measurable angle (local angle) of the light ray $\psi_P$ at the position of the observer $P$ instead of the total deflection angle (global angle) $\alpha$ in Kerr spacetime. We will investigate not only the effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-06 Hideyoshi Arakida

This paper studies the deflection of charged particles in a dipole magnetic field in Schwarzschild spacetime background in the weak field approximation. To calculate the deflection angle, we use Jacobi metric and Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-28 Zonghai Li , Wei Wang , Junji Jia

In this paper, we study the deflection angle for wormhole-like static aether solution by using Gibbons and Werner technique in non-plasma, plasma, and dark matter mediums. For this purpose, we use optical spacetime geometry to calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-05 Wajiha Javed , Sibgha Riaz , Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

Gravitational scattering of the electromagnetic field from a heavy scalar field provides a fundamental testbed for understanding the deflection of light by massive bodies. In many approaches based on effective field theory, the calculation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-19 Yihan Ma , Ding-fang Zeng

This paper investigates off-equatorial plane deflections and gravitational lensing of both null signals and massive particles in Kerr spacetime in the weak deflection limit, with the finite distance effect of the source and detector taken…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Tingyuan Jiang , Xiaoge Xu , Junji Jia

We explored the effect of space-time geometry on the trajectory of light rays in the context of a charged, rotating black hole. We derived an analytical expression for the deflection of light rays in Kerr-Newman space-time geometry, using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 Saswati Roy , Shubham Kala , Prasanjit Ghosh , Hemwati Nandan , Asoke K. Sen

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 propagation of light under a strong electric field in Born-Infeld electrrdynamics. The nonlinear effect can be described by the effective indices of refraction. Because the effective indices of refraction depend on the…

General Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Jin Young Kim

Using a perturbative technique, in this work we study the deflection of null and timelike signals in the extended Einstein-Maxwell spacetime, the Born-Infeld gravity and the charged Ellis-Bronnikov (CEB) spacetime in the weak field limit.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Jinhong He , Qianchuan Wang , Qiyue Hu , Li Feng , Junji Jia

Continuing work initiated in an earlier publication [Ishihara, Suzuki, Ono, Kitamura, Asada, Phys. Rev. D {\bf 94}, 084015 (2016) ], we discuss a method of calculating the bending angle of light in a static, spherically symmetric and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-22 Asahi Ishihara , Yusuke Suzuki , Toshiaki Ono , Hideki Asada

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