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In this paper we discuss a new method which can be used to obtain arbitrarily accurate analytical expressions for the deflection angle of light propagating in a given metric. Our method works by mapping the integral into a rapidly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Amore , Santiago Arceo Diaz

We extend to higher order a recently published method for calculating the deflection angle of light in a general static and spherically symmetric metric. Since the method is convergent we obtain very accurate analytical expressions that we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Amore , Santiago Arceo , Francisco Fernandez

The new method of invariant definition of the measurable angle of light deflection in the static central symmetric gravitational field is suggested. The predicted pure gravitational contribution to the deflection angle slightly differs from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tertychniy

After discussing some subtle issues concerning the computation of deflection angle, a general but simple expression of bending angle of light rays in weak deflection limit has been presented for a general static and spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-07-21 Arunava Bhadra

Using the geodesic method and the perturbative approach, we study the deflection of light by time-periodic spherically symmetric gravitational fields. Assuming the weakness of the gravitational field, we derive general formulas that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-16 Vladimir A. Koutvitsky , Eugene M. Maslov

We investigate the deflection angle in a strong deflection limit for a marginally unstable photon sphere in a general asymptotically flat, static and spherically symmetric spacetime under some assumptions to calculate observables. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-12 Naoki Tsukamoto

In recent study in Ref.[7] (arXiv: 2401.12525), we have introduced a method aimed at calculating the weak-field asymptotic deflection angle. This method offers an efficient computational approach that avoids the complexities of integration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-02 Zonghai Li

In this work, we develop a perturbative method to compute the deflection angle of null or timelike signals in spacetimes filled with a static and spherically symmetric (SSS) perfect fluid with fairly arbitrary density distributions. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Peiran Liu , Xiaotian Zhang , Junji Jia

We investigate strong gravitational lensing by a marginally unstable photon sphere in a Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m naked singularity spacetime. Using the Picard-Fuchs equation, we derive full-order power series expressions for the deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-10 Tadashi Sasaki

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

In this paper we calculate the strong field limit deflection angle for a light ray passing near a scalar charged spherically symmetric object, described by a metric which comes from the low-energy limit of heterotic string theory. Then, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-15 Carlos A. Benavides , Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano , Alexis Larranaga

In this geometrical approach to gravitational lensing theory, we apply the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to the optical metric of a lens, modelled as a static, spherically symmetric, perfect non-relativistic fluid, in the weak deflection limit. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 G W Gibbons , M C Werner

This is a general work on gravitational lensing. We present new expressions for the optical scalars and the deflection angle in terms of the energy-momentum tensor components of matter distributions. Our work generalizes standard references…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Emanuel Gallo , Osvaldo M. Moreschi

Gravitational lensing of luminous matter that surrounds a black hole or some other sufficiently compact object produces an infinite sequence of images. Besides the direct (or primary) image, it comprises demagnified and deformed replicas of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Fabio Aratore , Oleg Yu. Tsupko , Volker Perlick

We present a framework for studying gravitational lensing in spherically symmetric spacetimes using 1+1+2 covariant methods. A general formula for the deflection angle is derived and we show how this can be used to recover the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-14 Bonita de Swardt , Peter K. S. Dunsby , Chris Clarkson

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 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

Compact objects with magnetic dipole are considered as gravitational lenses. The presence of strong magnetic field near the photon sphere can affect the trajectory of light. We compute the deflection angle near the photon sphere on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Jin Young Kim

The deflection and gravitational lensing of light and massive particles in arbitrary static, spherically symmetric and asymptotically (anti-)de Sitter spacetimes are considered in this work. We first proved that for spacetimes whose metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-13 Zixiao Li , Haotian Liu , Junji Jia

We calculate the deflection angle, as well as the positions and magnifications of the lensed images, in the case of covariant $f(T)$ gravity. We first extract the spherically symmetric solutions for both the pure-tetrad and the covariant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-26 Xin Ren , Yaqi Zhao , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Yi-Fu Cai
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