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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…

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This paper reviews a phenomenological approach to the gravitational lensing by exotic objects such as the Ellis wormhole lens, where exotic lens objects may follow a non-standard form of the equation of state or may obey a modified gravity…

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Gravitational lensing constitutes one of the most direct observational manifestations of spacetime curvature and provides a powerful probe of compact astrophysical objects. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of the bending of…

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We investigate gravitational lensing by \textit{special} Buchdahl inspired metric with the Buchdahl parameter $\tilde{k}$. In strong deflection limit, we derive the deflection angle analytically for the light rays that diverge as photons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 Shafia Maryam , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Zoe C S Chan

We examine in a semiclassical framework the deflection function of strong gravitational lensing, for static and spherically symmetric black holes, endowed with a photon sphere. From a first-order WKB analysis near the maximum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-22 Bernard Raffaelli

The study of light lensed by cosmic matter has yielded much information about astrophysical questions. Observations are explained using geometrical optics following a ray-based description of light. After deflection the lensed light…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo , Thao P. Nguyen , Kiyan S. Hocek , Jacob M. Freedman , Enrique J. Galvez

This is a general work on gravitational lensing. We present new expressions for the optical scalars and the deflection angle in terms of the energy-momentum tensor components of matter distributions. Our work generalizes standard references…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Emanuel Gallo , Osvaldo M. Moreschi

We discuss the contribution to the characteristic lensing quantities, i.e. the deflection angle and Einstein radius, due to the higher order terms (e.g. the gravitomagnetic terms) considered in the lens potential. The cases we analyze are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Salvatore Capozziello , Virginia Re

Gravitational lensing by a spinning deflector in translational motion relative to the observer is discussed in the weak field, slow motion approximation. The effect of rotation, which generates an intrinsic gravito-magnetic field, separates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Sereno

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

We discuss weak lensing characteristics in the gravitational field of a compact object in the low-energy approximation of fourth order f(R) gravity theory. The particular solution is characterized by a gravitational strength parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-05 Zsolt Horváth , László Á. Gergely , David Hobill , Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis

In the present work, we investigate the gravitational lensing effects of two quantum-modified black hole models recently proposed in effective quantum gravity. The light deflection angles are calculated for both the weak-field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Hao Liu , Meng-Yun Lai , Xiao-Yin Pan , Hyat Huang , De-Cheng Zou

The theory of gravitational lensing has revealed many generic and fundamental properties of compact objects like black holes and wormholes. In this article, we utilize a recent formulation to compute the quantum effects on the deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-11 Kimet Jusufi , Farook Rahaman , Ayan Banerjee

A model is proposed for the classical electron as a point charge with finite electromagnetic self-energy. Modifications of the Reissner-Nordstr{\o}m (spin 0) and Kerr-Newman (spin 1/2) solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 S. M. Blinder

We study gravitational lensing by $k-n$ generalized black-bounce space-times both in regimes of weak and strong field approximations. These metrics interpolate between regular black holes and one-way or traversable wormholes. First, we…

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Gravitational lensing serves as a powerful probe of compact astrophysical objects and dark matter distributions. As relativistic counterparts to photons, neutrinos experiencing lensing offer a complementary means to investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Ya-Ru Wang , Ze-Wen Li , Shu-Jun Rong

We study the propagation of neutrinos in gravitational fields using wave functions that are exact to first order in the metric deviation. For illustrative purposes, the geometrical background is represented by the Lense-Thirring metric. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 G. Lambiase , G. Papini , R. Punzi , G. Scarpetta

We investigate the Hawking radiation of massive spin-1 vector particles, which are coupled to vacuum fluctuations of a quantum field, from Rindler modified Schwarzschild black hole. Rindler acceleration is used to produce the post-general…

General Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 I. Sakalli , A. Ovgun

In this work we introduced a new proposal to study the gravitational lensing theory by spherical lenses, starting from its surface mass density $\Sigma(x)$ written in terms of a decreasing function $f$ of a dimensionless coordinate $x$ on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 Roger Hurtado , Leonardo Castaneda , Juan M. Tejeiro

In this article, we develop a formalism which is different from the standard lensing scenario and is necessary for understanding lensing by gravitational fields which arise as solutions of the effective Einstein equations on the brane. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-30 Supratik Pal , Sayan Kar