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This article investigates the signatures of various models of dark energy on weak gravitational lensing, including the complementarity of the linear and non-linear regimes. It investigates quintessence models and their extension to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlo Schimd , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Alain Riazuelo

Weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies can probe the total projected mass distribution of foreground gravitational structures on all scales and has been used successfully to map the projected mass distribution of rich intermediate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Van Waerbeke , Y. Mellier

The canonical approach to quantizing quantum gravity is understood to suffer from pathological non-renomalizability. Nevertheless in the context of effective field theory, a viable perturbative approach to calculating elementary processes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Philip Tee , Nosratollah Jafari

Strong gravitational lensing produces multiple images of a gravitational wave (GW) signal, which can be observed by detectors as time-separated copies of the same event. It has been shown that under favourable circumstances, by combining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-04 Harsh Narola , Justin Janquart , Leïla Haegel , K. Haris , Otto A. Hannuksela , Chris Van Den Broeck

Gravitational light deflection is known as one of three classical tests of general relativity and the angle of deflection may be computed explicitly using approximate or exact solutions describing the gravitational force generated from a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-28 Chenmei Xu , Yisong Yang

We are developing a general, unified, and rigorous analytical framework for using gravitational lensing by compact objects to test different theories of gravity beyond the weak-deflection limit. In this paper we present the formalism for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Charles R. Keeton , A. O. Petters

Aim of the paper is study weak gravitational lensing of quantum (perturbed) (QLBHL) and classical (CLBHL) Lukewarm black hole in presence of cosmological parameter $\Lambda$. We apply numerical method to evaluate deflection angle of bending…

General Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 H. Ghaffarnejad , M. A. Mojahedi

The new method of invariant definition of the measurable angle of light deflection in the static central symmetric gravitational field is suggested. The predicted pure gravitational contribution to the deflection angle slightly differs from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tertychniy

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

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 study the impact of relativistic gravitational deflection of light on the accuracy of future Space Interferometry Mission (SIM). We estimate the deflection angles caused by the monopole, quadrupole and octupole components of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-24 Slava G. Turyshev

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

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

A hundred years ago, two British expeditions measured the deflection of starlight by the sun's gravitational field, confirming the prediction made by Einstein's General theory of Relativity. One hundred years later many physicists around…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota , Salvador Galindo-Uribarri , George F. Smoot

We investigate strong gravitational lensing by a charged loop quantum gravity (LQG) black hole obtained through the polymerisation scheme of Borges \textit{et al.} \cite{Borges:2023fog}. These effective geometries replace the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Arun Kumar , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu , Sushant G. Ghosh

Strong gravitational lensing provides a geometric probe of cosmology in a unique manner through distance ratios involving the source and lens. This is well known for the time delay distance derived from measured delays between lightcurves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Eric V. Linder

When the gravitational lensing potential can be approximated by that of circularly symmetric system affected by weak perturbations, it is found that the shape of the resulting (tangential) caustics is entirely specified by the local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jin H. An

It is standard practice to study the lensing of gravitational waves (GW) using the geometric optics regime. However, in many astrophysical configurations this regime breaks down as the wavelength becomes comparable to the Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-26 Giulia Cusin , Macarena Lagos

Gravitational waves (GWs) from distant sources such as inspiralling and merging stellar-mass compact binaries, intermediate-mass and supermassive-binary-black-hole can be gravitationally lensed by intervening objects, ranging from stars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhiwei Chen , Youjun Lu

A novel approach to the calculation of the deflection of highly relativistic test particles in gravitational fields is described. We make use of the light-like boosts of the gravitational fields of the sources. Examples are given of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Barrabes , P. A. Hogan