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Compact objects with a light sphere such as black holes and wormholes can reflect light rays like a mirror. This gravitational lensing phenomenon is called retrolensing and it is an interesting tool to survey dark and compact objects with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-24 Naoki Tsukamoto , Yungui Gong

Effective field theory (EFT) provides a systematic framework for parametrizing possible higher-energy corrections to general relativity through higher-curvature interactions. In this work, we investigate gravitational lensing in both weak-…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Takamasa Kanai

Contents: 1) Introduction and a few excursions [A word on the role of explicit solutions in other parts of physics and astrophysics. Einstein's field equations. "Just so" notes on the simplest solutions: The Minkowski, de Sitter and anti-de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiri Bicak

The propagation of neutrinos in a gravitational field is studied. A method of calculating a covariant quantum-mechanical phase in a curved space-time is presented. The result is used to calculate gravitational effects on the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 N. Fornengo , C. Giunti , C. W. Kim , J. Song

In this paper we examine cosmological weak lensing on non-linear scales and show that there are Newtonian and relativistic contributions and that the latter can also be extracted from standard Newtonian simulations. We use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-06 Daniel B. Thomas , Marco Bruni , David Wands

We present a numerical weak-lensing analysis that is fully relativistic and non-perturbative for the scalar part of the gravitational potential and first-order in the vector part, frame dragging. Integrating the photon geodesics backwards…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Francesca Lepori , Julian Adamek , Ruth Durrer , Chris Clarkson , Louis Coates

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 astronomy, gravitational lensing of light leads to the formation of multiple images, arcs, Einstein rings, and, most important, the shadow of black holes. Analogously in the vicinity of a massive compact object massive particles,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-20 Torben C. Frost

The 0th order of affine perturbation series of the deflection angle of a ray near a photon sphere is more accurate than a deflection angle in a strong deflection limit, which is used often, because the later has hidden error terms. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-14 Naoki Tsukamoto

In this article we confront a class of $f(Q)$ gravity models with observational data of galaxy-galaxy lensing. Specifically, we consider the $f(Q)$ gravity models containing a small quadratic correction when compared with General Relativity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 Qingqing Wang , Xin Ren , Yi-Fu Cai , Wentao Luo , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Gravitational lensing is one of the most impressive celestial phenomena, which has interesting behaviors in its strong field limit. Near such limit, Bozza finds that the deflection angle of light is well-approximated by a logarithmic term…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Xiao-Jun Gao , Ji-Ming Chen , Hongsheng Zhang , Yihao Yin , Ya-Peng Hu

Nonlinear relativistic ionization phenomena induced by a strong laser radiation with elliptically polarization are considered. The starting point is the classical relativistic action for a free electron moving in the electromagnetic field…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Ortner , V. M. Rylyuk

Following Sereno (2002a), we discuss the bending of light rays by spherically symmetric lenses with angular momentum. For several astrophysical systems, such as white dwarfs and galaxies, gravitomagnetism induces a correction on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Sereno , V. F. CArdone

The gravitational lensing of relativistic and nonrelativistic neutral massive particles in the black-bounce-Schwarzschild black hole spacetime is investigated in the strong deflection limit. Beginning with the explicit equations of motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Guansheng He , Jiaxu Huang , Zhongwen Feng , Ghulam Mustafa , Wenbin Lin

Gravitation lensing calculations, which are generally done for light ray, are extended to that for a massive particle. Many interesting results were observed. We discuss the scattering cross section along-with many consequential quantities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikhil J. Joshi

In this work, we develop a general perturbative procedure to find the off-equatorial plane deflections in the weak deflection limit in general stationary and axisymmetric spacetimes, allowing the existence of the generalized Carter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Xinguang Ying , Junji Jia

We investigate the gravitational lensing effect around a spherically symmetric black hole, whose metric is obtained from the Einstein field equation with electric charge and perfect-fluid dark matter contributing to its energy-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-13 Xiao-Jun Gao , Xiao-kun Yan , Yihao Yin , Ya-Peng Hu

Let two test particles A and B revolving about a spinning primary along ideally identical orbits in opposite directions be considered. From the general expressions of the precessions of the orbital inclination induced by the post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-06 Lorenzo Iorio

We consider the nonunitary quantum dynamics of neutral massless scalar particles used to model photons around a massive gravitational lens. The gravitational interaction between the lensing mass and asymptotically free particles is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Charles H. -T. Wang , Elliott Mansfield , Teodora Oniga

In this work, we study the gravitational lensing by a Lorentz-violating (LV) black hole inspired by the recent contribution [1]. Explicitly, we concentrate on a specific application: we perform the computation of gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-21 A. A. Araújo Filho , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfírio