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Modern applications of strong gravitational lensing require the ability to use precise and varied observational data to constrain complex lens models. I discuss two sets of computational methods for lensing calculations. The first is a new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles R. Keeton

In this paper, we study the gravitational lensing by some black hole classes within the non-linear electrodynamics in weak field limits. First, we calculate an optical geometry of the non-linear electrodynamics black hole then we use the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-22 H. El Moumni , K. Masmar , Ali Övgün

The gravitational lensing of relativistic neutral massive particles caused by a Kerr-Newman black hole is investigated systematically in the weak-field limit. Based on the Kerr-Newman metric in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates, we first derive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-19 Guansheng He , Wenbin Lin

We study optical metrics via null geodesics as a central force system, deduce the related Binet equation and apply the analysis to certain solutions of Einstein's equations with and without spherical symmetry. A general formula for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-12 D. Batic , S. Chanda , P. Guha

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

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

Recent observational data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration provide convincing realistic evidence for the existence of black hole rotation. From a phenomenological perspective, a recently proposed stable rotating regular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Chen-Hao Xie , Yu Zhang , Qi Sun , Qi-Quan Li , Peng-Fei Duan

In this paper we investigate the strong gravitational lensing with Gauss-Bonnet gravity. By considering the logarithmic term for deflection angle, we obtain the deflection angle $\hat\alpha$ and corresponding parameters $\bar{a}$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Sadeghi , H. Vaez

In this paper, we analyze the deflection angle of light by Brane-Dicke wormhole in the weak field limit approximation to find the effect of the Brane-Dicke coupling parameter on the weak gravitation lensing. For this purpose, we consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-11 Wajiha Javed , Rimsha Babar , Ali Övgün

We derive angle differences between two null geodesics, propagating from light sources to an observer, on the de Sitter spacetime with multi-lensing objects. Assuming the lensing objects are mass monopoles on the de Sitter background, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-30 Rio Saitou , Hiromi Saida

We give the lens equation for light deflections caused by point mass condensations in an otherwise spatially homogeneous and flat universe. We assume the signal from a distant source is deflected by a single condensation before it reaches…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Bin Chen , Ronald Kantowski , Xinyu Dai

Observations of gravitational lenses in strong gravitational fields give us a clue to understanding dark compact objects. In this paper, we extend a method to obtain a deflection angle in a strong deflection limit provided by Bozza [Phys.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-05 Naoki Tsukamoto

This paper is devoted to compute the weak deflection angle for Kalb-Ramond traversable wormhole solution in plasma and dark matter mediums by using the method of Gibbons and Werner. To acquire our results, we evaluate Gaussian optical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-15 Wajiha Javed , Hafsa Irshad , Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

We present formal expressions for the optical scalars in terms of the curvature scalars in the weak gravitational lensing regime at second order in perturbations of a flat background without mentioning the extension of the lens or their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-16 Gabriel Crisnejo , Emanuel Gallo

Understanding the deflection of light by a massive deflector, as well as the associated gravitational lens phenomena, require the use of the theory of General Relativity. I consider here a classical approach, based on Newton's equation of…

Physics Education · Physics 2008-03-05 T. Garel

We present a strong-deflection expansion for the deflection angle of light rays scattered near a degenerate photon sphere in asymptotically flat, static, and spherically symmetric spacetimes. Our prescription isolates the divergent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Takahisa Igata , Tadashi Sasaki , Naoki Tsukamoto

We derive a coordinate-invariant expression for the photon deflection angle in the strong deflection limit (SDL) of stationary axisymmetric spacetimes. The key logarithmic-divergence coefficient is shown to depend only on quantities locally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-08 Takahisa Igata

We introduce the use of the Fast Multipole Method (FMM) to speed up gravitational lensing ray tracing calculations. The method allows very fast calculation of ray deflections when a large number of deflectors, $N_*$, is involved, while…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 J. Jiménez Vicente , E. Mediavilla

In this work, we calculate the deflection angle of light in a spacetime that interpolates between regular black holes and traversable wormholes, depending on the free parameter of the metric. Afterwards, this angular deflection is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-11 J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfirio , A. R. Soares

This paper investigates charged particle deflection in a Kerr spacetime background with a dipole magnetic field, focusing on the equatorial plane and employing the weak field approximation. We employ the Jacobi-Randers metric to unify the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-04 Zonghai Li , Junji Jia