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Gravitational weak lensing by large scale structures is view as a tool to probe the bias relation between the mass and the light distributions. It is explained how a particular statistic can be used to deproject the 2D mass distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Van Waerbeke

Gravitational lensing constitutes one of the most direct observational manifestations of spacetime curvature and provides a powerful probe of compact astrophysical objects. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of the bending of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Partha Pratim Basumallick , Saheb Das , Bhaswati Mandal , Subhadip Sau

We study the strong gravitational lensing due to the Kerr black holes with angular momentum $a$ and the Kerr-Newman black holes with additional charge $Q$. We first derive the analytical expressions of the deflection angles of light rays…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-21 Tien Hsieh , Da-Shin Lee , Chi-Yong Lin

We study the deflection of light rays in a cold, non-magnetized plasma using the worldline framework. Starting from Synge's Hamiltonian formalism, we construct a position-space action and use it perturbatively to calculate light bending…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 Francesco Comberiati , Leonardo de la Cruz

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

We investigate analytically gravitational lensing by charged, stationary, axially symmetric Kerr-Sen dilaton-axion black hole in the weak deflection limit. Approximate solutions to the lightlike equations of motion are present up to and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Galin N. Gyulchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

In this letter a new formula for light deflection is derived using only physically observable concepts. The general result is specialized to cosmological perturbation theory and expressed in terms of gauge--invariant perturbation variables.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Ruth Durrer

In this article, we calculate the deflection angle of tidal charged black hole (TCBH) in weak field limits. First we obtain the Gaussian optical curvature and then apply the Gauss-Bonnet theorem on it. With the help of Gibbons-Werner…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-25 Wajiha Javed , Ali Hamza , Ali Övgün

We discuss the horizon properties, shadow cast, and the weak gravitational lensing of charged rotating regular black holes, which in addition to mass ($M$) and rotation parameter ($a$) have an electric charge ($Q$) and magnetic charge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-12 Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh , Anzhong Wang

We investigate gravitational lensing by a primary photon sphere which is a sphere filled with unstable circular light orbits, and by a secondary photon sphere on a wormhole throat in a black-bounce spacetime which is suggested in [F. S. N.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-15 Naoki Tsukamoto

In this paper we have investigated the gravitational lensing in a spherically symmetric spacetime with torsion in the generalized Einstein-Cartan-Kibble-Sciama (ECKS) theory of gravity by considering higher order terms. The torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-07 Lu Zhang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

A constraint on the tidal charge generated within a brane world is shown. Using the shadow of a rotating black hole in a brane context in order to describe the M87* parameters recently announced by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-11 Juliano C. S. Neves

Natural wormholes and its astrophysical signatures have been sugested in various oportunities. By applying the strong field limit of gravitational lensing theory, we calculate the deflection angle and magnification curves produced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 J. M. Tejeiro , E. Larranaga

We study perturbations induced by a light particle scattering off a Schwarzschild black hole. Exploiting recent results for the wave propagation in this geometry, we derive the fields that this process induces on the horizon to leading…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Andrea Cipriani , Francesco Fucito , Carlo Heissenberg , Jose Francisco Morales , Rodolfo Russo

Gravitational lenses can provide crucial information on the geometry of the Universe, on the cosmological scenario of formation of its structures as well as on the history of its components with look-back time. In this review, I focus on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Mellier

I consider the effect of the gravitational deflection of light upon the light curves of eclipsing binary stars, focussing mainly upon systems containing at least one white dwarf component. In absolute terms the effects are small, however…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. R. Marsh

We extend a recent work on weak field first order light deflection in the MOdified Gravity (MOG) by comprehensively analyzing the actual observables in gravitational lensing both in the weak and strong field regime. The static spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 R. N. Izmailov , R. Kh. Karimov , E. R. Zhdanov , K. K. Nandi

In this paper, we use the Gauss Bonnet theorem to obtain the deflection angle by the photons coupled to Weyl tensor in a Schwarzschild black hole and Schwarzschild-like black hole in bumblebee gravity in the weak limit approximation. To do…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-31 Ali Övgün , Kimet Jusufi , Izzet Sakalli

The observation of the bending of light by mass, now known as gravitational lensing, was key in establishing general relativity as one of the pillars of modern physics. In the past couple of decades, there has been increasing interest in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Arthur B. Congdon , Savitri V. Iyer , Charles R. Keeton

Weak lensing calculations are often made under the assumption of the Born approximation, where the ray path is approximated as a straight radial line. In addition, lens-lens couplings where there are several deflections along the light ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-07 Bjoern Malte Schaefer , Lavinia Heisenberg , Angelos Fotios Kalovidouris , David J. Bacon