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In this paper we discuss a new method which can be used to obtain arbitrarily accurate analytical expressions for the deflection angle of light propagating in a given metric. Our method works by mapping the integral into a rapidly…

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

Using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, we compute and examine the deflection angle of light rays by rotating regular black holes with a cosmological constant. By the help of optical geometries, we first deal with the Hayward black holes with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 A. Belhaj , H. Belmahi , M. Benali , H. El Moumni

In this geometrical approach to gravitational lensing theory, we apply the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to the optical metric of a lens, modelled as a static, spherically symmetric, perfect non-relativistic fluid, in the weak deflection limit. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 G W Gibbons , M C Werner

In this paper we have assumed a weak-field regime to explore the gravitational lensed photons in a 4 dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, which is very much in the limelight these days. The investigation is conducted in three distinct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-03 Gulmina Zaman Babar , Farruh Atamurotov , Abdullah Zaman Babar

In this article, we analyze the weak gravitational lensing in the context of Einstein-non-linear Maxwell-Yukawa black hole. To this desire, we derive the deflection angle of light by Einstein-non-linear Maxwell-Yukawa black hole using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Wajiha Javed , Muhammad Bilal Khadim , Ali Övgün

Explicit expressions for the bending angle of light deflection arising from phenomenologically deformed black-hole metrics, subject to possible weak and strong quantum gravity effects, respectively, are obtained, by a highly effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-13 Chenmei Xu , Yisong Yang

We study the gravitational lensing in the weak field approximation assuming the presence of a plasma and of a magnetic field around a compact gravitational source. The external magnetic field causes the split of the image, as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 Bobur Turimov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Cosimo Bambi

We develop a non--perturbative method that yields analytical expressions for the deflection angle of light in a general static and spherically symmetric metric. It is an improvement on a method previously devised by the authors, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Paolo Amore , Mayra Cervantes , Arturo De Pace , Francisco M. Fernandez

Gravitational lensing is investigated in the weak field limit of fourth order gravity in which the Lagrangian of the gravitational field is modified by replacing the Ricci scalar curvature R with an analytical expression $f(R)$. Considering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Capozziello , V. F. Cardone , A. Troisi

We develop the spacetime approach to gravitational lensing by spherically symmetric perturbations of flat, cosmological constant-dominated Friedman-Robertson-Walker metrics. The geodesics of the spacetime are expressed as integral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Thomas P. Kling , Sophia MacQueen Pooler

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

The images of many distant galaxies are displaced, distorted and often multiplied by the presence of foreground massive galaxies near the line of sight; the foreground galaxies act as gravitational lenses. Commonly, the lens equation, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Simonetta Frittelli , Thomas P. Kling , Ezra T. Newman

Using a recently found black hole solution in the framework of the Poincar{\'e} gauge theory of gravity, we study gravitational lensing for a system where the lens is a static spherically symmetric black hole. By analyzing the equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-19 Saboura Sadat Zamani , Siamak Akhshabi

In this paper we study the light bending caused by a slowly rotating source in the context of quadratic theories of gravity, in which the Einstein--Hilbert action is extended by additional terms quadratic in the curvature tensors. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Luca Buoninfante , Breno L. Giacchini

In the present work, we theoretically investigate light deflection in the weak and strong field regimes for two regular spacetimes with corrections from loop quantum gravity. We treat analytically the expansions for both limits and use them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-19 A. R. Soares , C. F. S. Pereira , R. L. L. Vitória , Marcos V. de S. Silva , H. Belich

We obtain the deflection angle for a boosted Kerr black hole in the weak field approximation. We also study the behavior of light in the presence of plasma by considering different distributions: singular isothermal sphere, non-singular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-03 Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego , A. A. Abdujabbarov , Cosimo Bambi

We offer a concise and direct way to derive the bending angle of light (i.e. as generally called, gravitational lensing), while light grazes a star, through the approach suggested earlier by the first author, which is fundamentally based on…

General Physics · Physics 2014-01-15 Tolga Yarman , Alexander Kholmetskii , Metin Arik

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

The influence of the medium on the gravitational deflection of light rays is widely discussed in literature for the simplest non-trivial case: cold non-magnetized plasma. In this article, we generalize these studies to the case of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Oleg Yu. Tsupko

We study weak gravitational lensing around a compact object with arbitrary quadrupole moment in the presence of plasma. The studied compact objects are considered to be spherically symmetric. The additional parameter $\epsilon$ regulating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-16 Hrishikesh Chakrabarty , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Ahmadjon A. Abdujabbarov , Cosimo Bambi