Gravitational lensing by black holes in the 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/09/030MaRDI QIDQ5070941zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shafqat Ul Islam, Rahul Kumar, S. G. Ghosh

Publication date 14 April 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01038

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: Recently, a non-trivial

4 D

Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theory of gravity, by rescaling the GB coupling parameter as

a l p h a / (D - 4)

, was formulated in cite{Glavan:2019inb}, which bypasses Lovelock's theorem and avoids Ostrogradsky instability. The theory admits a static spherically symmetric black hole, unlike

5 D

EGB or general relativity counterpart, which can have both Cauchy and event horizons. We generalize previous work, on gravitational lensing by a Schwarzschild black hole, in the strong and weak deflection limits to the

4 D

EGB black holes to calculate the deflection coefficients

and

, while former increases and later decrease with increasing

a l p h a

. We also find that the deflection angle

a l p h a_{D}

, angular position

h e t a_{i n f t y}

and

u_{m}

decreases, but angular separation

s

increases with

a l p h a

. The effect of the GB coupling parameter

a l p h a

on positions and magnification of the source relativistic images is discussed in the context of SgrA* and M87* black holes. A brief description of the weak gravitational lensing using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem is presented.

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