Pith. sign in

REVIEW 1 cited by

Analytical Kerr black hole lensing in the weak deflection limit

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv astro-ph/0609435 v2 pith:UE3WID2F submitted 2006-09-15 astro-ph gr-qc

classification astro-phgr-qc
keywords blackholeanalyticalangularbrokendeflectiondegeneracyimages
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal
0 comments
read the original abstract

We present an analytical treatment of gravitational lensing by a Kerr black hole in the weak deflection limit. Lightlike geodesics are expanded as a Taylor series up to and including third-order terms in m/b and a/b, where m is the black hole mass, a the angular momentum and b the impact parameter of the light ray. Positions and magnifications of individual images are computed with a perturbative analysis. At this order, the degeneracy with the translated Schwarzschild lens is broken. The critical curve is still a circle displaced from the black hole position in the equatorial direction and the corresponding caustic is point-like. The degeneracy between the black hole spin and its inclination relative to the observer is broken through the angular coordinates of the perturbed images.

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 1 Pith paper

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. Dark matter imprints on a caustic encounter in an effective spinning black hole binary lens

    gr-qc 2026-07 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

    A cored dark-matter correction to a binary lens leaves a small but persistent caustic-timing shift after a spinning vacuum model is fitted to mimic it.

Pith tools