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arxiv: 1510.02560 · v1 · pith:RCNULUU2new · submitted 2015-10-09 · 🌀 gr-qc

Null geodesics and gravitational lensing in a nonsingular spacetime

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keywords nonsingularspacetimegeodesicsgravitationallensingnullangularblack
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In this paper, the null geodesics and gravitational lensing in a nonsingular spacetime are investigated. According to the nature of the null geodesics, the spacetime is divided into several cases. In the weak deflection limit, we find the influence of the nonsingularity parameter $q$ on the positions and magnifications of the images is negligible. In the strong deflection limit, the coefficients and observables for the gravitational lensing in a nonsingular black hole background and a weakly nonsingular spacetime are obtained. Comparing these results, we find that, in a weakly nonsingular spacetime, the relativistic images have smaller angular position and relative magnification, but larger angular separation than that of a nonsingular black hole. These results might offer a way to probe the spacetime nonsingularity parameter and put a bound on it by the astronomical instruments in the near future.

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