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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

Recent advances, including gravitational wave detections and imaging of black hole shadows, have strongly validated general relativity. Nevertheless, ongoing cosmological observations suggest potential limitations of general relativity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-11 Ali Övgün , Mohsen Fathi

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

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

In this paper we build the general formalism of gravitational lensing in luminal Horndeski theories, deriving the Jacobi matrix equation and the general angular diameter distance in these theories through the screen space formalism. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-07 Pedro Bessa

A Kerr black hole with mass parameter m and angular momentum parameter a acting as a gravitational lens gives rise to two images in the weak field limit. We study the corresponding magnification relations, namely the signed and absolute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. C. Werner , A. O. Petters

We define compactness of a gravitational lens as the scaled closest distance of approach (i.e., $r_0/M$) of the null geodesic giving rise to an image. We model forty supermassive dark objects as Schwarzschild lenses and compute compactness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 K. S. Virbhadra

We show how Conformal Gravity (CG) has to satisfy a fine-tuning condition to describe the rotation curves of disk galaxies without the aid of dark matter. Interpreting CG as a gauge natural theory yields conservation laws and their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 M. C. Campigotto , A. Diaferio , L. Fatibene

We generalize the Rindler-Ishak (2007) result for the lensing deflection angle in a SdS spacetime, to the case of a general spherically symmetric fluid beyond the cosmological constant. We thus derive an analytic expression to first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 L. Perivolaropoulos , I. Antoniou , D. Papadopoulos

We derive expressions, in terms of "polar shapelets", for the image distortion operations associated with weak gravitational lensing. Shear causes galaxy shapes to become elongated, and is sensitive to the second derivative of the projected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard Massey , Barnaby Rowe , Alexandre Refregier , David J. Bacon , Joel Berge

Observations of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing (SGL) systems have enabled unique tests of nonlinear departures from general relativity (GR) on the galactic and supergalactic scales. One of the most important cases of such tests…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Yujie Lian , Shuo Cao , Tonghua Liu , Marek Biesiada , Zong-Hong Zhu

We estimate the changes in solar system tests of general relativity when "dark energy" arises from a Weyl scaling invariant action, using the modified Schwarzschild-like spherically symmetric solution obtained in this case by Adler and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-11 Stephen L. Adler

Gravitational lensing is one of the most impressive celestial phenomena, which has interesting behaviors in its strong field limit. Near such limit, Bozza finds that the deflection angle of light is well-approximated by a logarithmic term…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Xiao-Jun Gao , Ji-Ming Chen , Hongsheng Zhang , Yihao Yin , Ya-Peng Hu

In the present work, we theoretically investigate light deflection in the weak and strong field regimes for two regular spacetimes with corrections from loop quantum gravity. We treat analytically the expansions for both limits and use them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-19 A. R. Soares , C. F. S. Pereira , R. L. L. Vitória , Marcos V. de S. Silva , H. Belich

Recent observational data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration provide convincing realistic evidence for the existence of black hole rotation. From a phenomenological perspective, a recently proposed stable rotating regular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Chen-Hao Xie , Yu Zhang , Qi Sun , Qi-Quan Li , Peng-Fei Duan

The unknown nature of dark energy motivates continued cosmological tests of large-scale gravitational physics. We present a new consistency check based on the relative amplitude of non-relativistic galaxy peculiar motions, measured via…

The gravitational lensing effects in the weak gravitational field by exotic lenses have been investigated intensively to find nonluminous exotic objects. Gravitational lensing based on 1/r^n fall-off metric, as a one-parameter model that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-25 Naoki Tsukamoto , Takao Kitamura , Koki Nakajima , Hideki Asada

We explore the weak-field phenomenology of a compact star spacetime modified by quantum gravitational corrections derived from the effective field theoretical (EFT) approach by Calmet et al. [1]. These corrections, encoded in non-local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Ovgun , Gaetano Lambiase

The theory of gravitational lensing is reviewed from a spacetime perspective, without quasi-Newtonian approximations. More precisely, the review covers all aspects of gravitational lensing where light propagation is described in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-19 Volker Perlick

In this work are reviewed several aspects of gravitational lensing produced by astrophysical bodies that strongly curve the spacetime in their vicinity. When an object with a photon sphere (e.g. a black hole) is interposed between a source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-15 Ernesto F. Eiroa