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The gravitational lensing of gravitational waves might cause beat patterns detectable by interferometers. The feature of this kind of signal is the existence of the beat pattern in the early inspiral phase, followed by a seemingly randomly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-10 Shaoqi Hou , Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Zong-Hong Zhu

An arbitrary surface mass density of gravitational lens can be decomposed into multipole components. We simulate the ray-tracing for the multipolar mass distribution of generalized SIS (Singular Isothermal Sphere) model, based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-04 Z. Chu , W. P. Lin , G. L. Li , X. Kang

The image of a point situated at the center of a circularly symmetric potential is a perfect circle. The perturbative effect of non-symmetrical potential terms is to displace and break the perfect circle. These 2 effects, displacement and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Alard

We present new results on gravitational lensing over a cosmological Robertson-Walker backgrounds which extend and generalize previous works. Our expressions show the presence of new terms and factors which have been neglected in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Ezequiel F. Boero , Osvaldo M. Moreschi

We show that oscillating (real-scalar) boson stars can act as strictly periodic gravitational lenses and generically host an \emph{oscillating radial caustic}. Sources near this caustic cross it every half period, producing achromatic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Xing-Yu Yang , Tan Chen , Rong-Gen Cai

The appearance of quantised vortices in the classical ``rotating bucket'' experiments of liquid helium and ultracold dilute gases provides the means for fundamental and comparative studies of different superfluids. Here, we realize the…

Gravitational wave observations have significantly broadened our capacity to explore fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model, providing crucial insights into dark matter that are inaccessible through conventional methods. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Jeong Han Kim , Xing-Yu Yang

A century after observing the deflection of light emitted by distant stars during the solar eclipse of 1919, it is interesting to know the concepts emerged from the experiment and the theoretical and observational consequences for modern…

Popular Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 J. A. S. Lima , R. C. Santos

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

The wave effect in the gravitational lensing phenomenon by a straight cosmic string is investigated. The interference pattern is expressed in terms of a simple formula. We demonstrate that modulations of the interfered wave amplitude can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Keiji Tsunoda

The structure and potential of a complex gravitational lens is reconstructed using the perturbative method presented in Alard 2007, MNRAS, 382L, 58; Alard 2008, MNRAS, 388, 375. This lens is composed of 6 galaxies belonging to a small…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Alard

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

Black holes are considered among the most fascinating objects that exist in our universe, since in the classical formalism nothing, even no light, can escape from their vicinity due to gravity. The gravitational potential causes the light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Sayan Jana , Lea Sirota

The amplification of a light beam due to intervening gravitational waves is studied. The previous Jordan frame result according to which the amplification is many orders of magnitude larger in scalar-tensor gravity than in general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Valerio Faraoni , Edgard Gunzig

We present the first detailed computations of wave optics effects in the gravitational lensing of binary systems. The field is conceptually rich, combining the caustic singularities produced in classical gravitational lensing with quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-06 Job Feldbrugge , Neil Turok

Gravitational waves can act like gravitational lenses, affecting the observed positions, brightnesses, and redshifts of distant objects. Exact expressions for such effects are derived here in general relativity, allowing for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-26 Abraham I. Harte

Vortons can be viewed as (flat space-) field theory analogs of black rings in general relativity. They are made from loops of vortices, being sustained against collapse by the centrifugal force. In this work we discuss such configurations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu , Bintoro Subagyo

We present a framework that reformulates gravitational lensing as an optical phenomenon governed by an effective refractive index, enabling exploration of modified gravity theories using undergraduate-level mathematics and optics. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Romy Hanang Setya Budhi

We discuss the gravitational lensing of gravitational wave signals from coalescing binaries. We delineate the regime where wave effects are significant from the regime where geometric limit can be used. Further, we focus on the effect of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Ashish Kumar Meena , J S Bagla

In this manuscript, we provide a comprehensive study of gravitational lensing by dark compact objects predicted by a Modified Gravity (MOG) based on the Scalar-Vector-Tensor action, and the aim is to analyze new insights into the nature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Nagina Rehman , Zoe C. S. Chan , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou