Effect of accelerated global expansion on the bending of light

DOI10.1007/S10714-016-2175-6zbMATH Open1367.83099arXiv1408.0786OpenAlexW3106343512WikidataQ62501145 ScholiaQ62501145MaRDI QIDQ2012372FDOQ2012372

Authors: Mir Emad Aghili, Brett Bolen, Luca Bombelli 

Publication date: 31 July 2017

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 2007 Rindler and Ishak showed that, contrary to previous claims, the value of the cosmological constant does have an effect on light deflection by a gravitating object in an expanding universe, modeled by a Schwarzschild-de~Sitter spacetime. In this paper we consider light bending in the more general situation of a gravitating object in a cosmological background with varying expansion rate $H(t)$. We calculate numerically the null geodesics representing light rays deflected by a black hole in an accelerating Friedmann-Lema^itre-Robertson-Walker universe, modeled by a McVittie metric. Keeping the values of the distances from the observer to the lensing object and to the source fixed, we plot the dependence of the bending angle measured by two different sets of observers in this spacetime on the rate of change of $H(t)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.0786

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmological expansionlight bendingmcvittie metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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