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We investigate the weak lensing corrections to the CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies. We consider all the effects beyond the leading order: post-Born corrections, LSS corrections and, for the polarization anisotropies, the…

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We define a second-order moment of the observational differential microlensing curves that can be used to impose constraints on physical properties of lensed quasars. We show that this quantity is sensitive both to variations in the source…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-11 Eduardo Guerras , Xinyu Dai , Evencio Mediavilla

We explore the impact of corrections to the propagation on the waveforms of gravitationally lensed gravitational waves under the geometrical optics approximation, focusing on both uniform cosmological modifications and local modifications…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Hiroki Takeda , Takahiro Tanaka

The precision reached by current and forthcoming strong-lensing observations requires to accurately model various perturbations to the main deflector. Hitherto, theoretical models have been developed to account for either cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-10 Pierre Fleury , Julien Larena , Jean-Philippe Uzan

The magnification effect due to gravitational lensing enhances the chances of detecting moderate-redshift ($z \sim 1$) sources in very-high-energy (VHE; $E > 100$ GeV) $\gamma$-rays by ground-based Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Markus Boettcher , Hannes Thiersen

We investigate the gravitational lensing effects of a static spherically symmetric black hole (BH) within the framework of the revised Deser-Woodard (D-W) nonlocal gravity. By analyzing the deflection angle in both the weak and strong field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Haida Li , Xiangdong Zhang

Gravitational lensing affects observed cosmological correlation functions because observed images do not coincide with true source locations. We treat this universal effect in a general way here, deriving a single formula that can be used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Dodelson , Fabian Schmidt , Alberto Vallinotto

We explore the reconstruction of the gravitational lensing field of the cosmic microwave background in real space showing that very little statistical information is lost when estimators of short range on the celestial sphere are used in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Martin Bucher , Carla Sofia Carvalho , Kavilan Moodley , Mathieu Remazeilles

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 generalize our previous work on gravitational lensing by a Kerr black hole in the strong deflection limit, removing the restriction to observers on the equatorial plane. Starting from the Schwarzschild solution and adding corrections up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Bozza , F. De Luca , G. Scarpetta

We investigate the possibility of correcting for the magnification due to gravitational lensing of standard candle sources, such as Type Ia supernovae. Our method uses the observed properties of the foreground galaxies along the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christofer Gunnarsson , Tomas Dahlen , Ariel Goobar , Jakob Jonsson , Edvard Mortsell

In the present work, we theoretically investigate gravitational lensing in the spacetime of a holonomy corrected Schwarzschild black hole. Analytical expressions for the light deflection angle are obtained in both the weak field limit and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-07 A. R. Soares , C. F. S. Pereira , R. L. L. Vitória

Gravitational lensing is the phenomenon arising when light rays are deflected by the mass between the source and the observer. Largely magnified and highly distorted images of background galaxies are formed by these angular deflections if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Atınç Çağan Şengül

Waveforms of gravitational waves provide information about a variety of parameters for the binary system merging. However, standard calculations have been performed assuming a FLRW universe with no perturbations. In reality this assumption…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-10 Daniele Bertacca , Alvise Raccanelli , Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese

For suitable gravitational lens systems with unknown lens redshifts, the redshifts and brightnesses (in different colours) of the lenses are predicted for a variety of cosmological models, for both elliptical and spiral galaxy lenses.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Phillip Helbig

The precision of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments, specifically its lensing reconstruction, has reached the limit where non-linear corrections cannot be ignored. Neglecting these corrections results in biased constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Cynthia Trendafilova , Ali Rida Khalife , Silvia Galli

Studies of gravitational microlensing are usually based on the lens equation, which is valid only to first order in the gravitational constant $G$. However, the amplification factor of microlensing is a second-order quantity with respect to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Junya Ebina , Takeaki Osuga , Hideki Asada , Masumi Kasai

It is known that the rotation of a gravitational lens affects properties of images. We consider an inverse problem: If the lens is dark, can we infer its rotation from the observed images? We find that, up to the first order in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hideki Asada , Masumi Kasai

Gravitational lensing by large-scale structure significantly impacts observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB): it smooths the acoustic peaks in temperature and $E$-mode polarization power spectra, correlating previously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Daniel Green , Joel Meyers , Alexander van Engelen

The potential of the gravitational microlensing inside our Galaxy for testing the Einstein formula for the gravitational light deflection is discussed. For this purpose, the lens mapping is modified by introducing parameter eps, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-22 A. N. Alexandrov , V. M. Sliusar , V. I. Zhdanov