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We discuss the effects of an isolated gravitational lens on the rotation of the plane of polarization of linearly polarized light rays, the so called gravitational Faraday rotation, in metric theories of gravity. By applying the thin lens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Sereno

The detailed study of the strong gravitational lensing of a Kerr black hole within Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG) is performed. We calculate the photon sphere, the deflection angle of light, and observables on the equatorial plane under the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Chen-Hao Xie , Yu Zhang , Bo-Li Liu , Peng-Fei Duan , Yu-Li Lou

A new geometric method to determine the deflection of light in the equatorial plane of the Kerr solution is presented, whose optical geometry is a surface with a Finsler metric of Randers type. Applying the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 M. C. Werner

An exact solution is obtained for the gravitational bending of light in static, spherically symmetric metrics which includes the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime and also the Mannheim-Kazanas metric of conformal Weyl gravity. From the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-06 Yen-Kheng Lim , Qing-hai Wang

We study gravitational lensing by a class of zero Ricci scalar wormholes which arise as solutions in a scalar-tensor theory of gravity. An attempt is made to find a possible link between lensing features, stable/unstable photon orbits and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-29 Rajibul Shaikh , Sayan Kar

In this paper, we investigate the gravitational lensing effect for the Schwarzschild-like black hole spacetime in the background of a Kalb-Ramond (KR) field proposed in [K. Yang et. al., Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 124004]. The solution is…

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

Strong gravitational lensing at the galaxy scale is a valuable tool for various applications in astrophysics and cosmology. The primary uses of galaxy-scale lensing are to study elliptical galaxies' mass structure and evolution, constrain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-08 A. J. Shajib , G. Vernardos , T. E. Collett , V. Motta , D. Sluse , L. L. R. Williams , P. Saha , S. Birrer , C. Spiniello , T. Treu

We discuss strong gravitational lensing by multiple objects along any line of sight. The probability for strong gravitational lensing by more than one lens is small, but a number of strong lens systems in which more than one separate lens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ole Moeller , A. W. Blain

The influence of plasma on different effects of gravitational lensing is reviewed. Using the Hamiltonian approach for geometrical optics in a medium in the presence of gravity, an exact formula for the photon deflection angle by a black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-31 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , O. Yu. Tsupko

The effect of gravitational wave of cosmological wavelength on the gravitational lensing is investigated. When the source, deflector, and observer are aligned in a highly symmetric configuration, an Einstein ring will be observed by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-04 Wenshuai Liu

Massive structures, such as galaxies, act as strong gravitational lenses on background sources. When the background source is a quasar, several lensed images are seen, as magnified or de-magnified versions of the same object. The detailed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Courbin , P. Saha , P. L. Schechter

It is believed that rays bent inside and outside photon spheres could affect partially the black hole shadow images by the Event Horizon Telescope and the rays near photon spheres would be detected by near-future space observations. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Naoki Tsukamoto

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing in a Kaluza-Klein black hole with squashed horizons. We find the size of the extra dimension imprints in the radius of the photon sphere, the deflection angle, the angular position and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Yue Liu , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

This paper uses the Schwarzschild metric to derive an effective refractive index and acceleration vector that account for relativistic deflection of light rays, in an otherwise classical kinematic framework. The new refractive index and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 S. J. Walters , L. K. Forbes , P. D. Jarvis

We present a simple prescription for the rotation of polarization produced by a relativistically moving gravitational lens, applicable to arbitrary deflection angle and arbitrary velocity of the lens. When geometric optics is applicable,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-07 Maxim Lyutikov

In the gravitational lensing of gravitational waves, the wave optics should be used instead of the geometrical optics when the wavelength $\lambda$ of the gravitational waves is longer than the Schwarzschild radius of the lens mass $M_L$.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ryuichi Takahashi , Takashi Nakamura

Observations of gravitational lenses in strong gravitational fields give us a clue to understanding dark compact objects. In this paper, we extend a method to obtain a deflection angle in a strong deflection limit provided by Bozza [Phys.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-05 Naoki Tsukamoto

Using a new geometrical method introduced by Werner, we find the deflection angle in the weak limit approximation by a spinning cosmic string in the context of the Einstein-Cartan (EC) theory of gravity. We begin by adopting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-17 Kimet Jusufi

The Gibbons-Werner method for calculating deflection angles using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem and optical/Jacobi metric has become widely popular in recent years. Werner extended this method to stationary spacetimes, where the optical/Jacobi…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Zonghai Li