The Erez-Rosen metric and the role of the quadrupole on light propagation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/4/045009zbMATH Open1266.83045arXiv1408.5264OpenAlexW3102379524WikidataQ62560810 ScholiaQ62560810MaRDI QIDQ4920131FDOQ4920131

Authors: Donato Bini, Mariateresa Crosta, Fernando de Felice, Andrea Geralico, Alberto Vecchiato 

Publication date: 16 May 2013

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The gravitational field of a static body with quadrupole moment is described by an exact solution found by Erez and Rosen. Here we investigate the role of the quadrupole in the motion, deflection and lensing of a light ray in the above metric. The standard lensing observables like image positions and magnification have been explicitly obtained in the weak field and small quadrupole limit. In this limit the spacetime metric appears as the natural generalization to quadrupole corrections of the metric form adopted also in current astrometric models. Hence, the corresponding analytical solution of the inverse ray tracing problem as well as the consistency with other approaches are also discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5264

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitational fieldquadrupole momentErez-Rosen metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25)

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