Strong field limit analysis of gravitational retrolensing
- 15 March 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 69 (6) , 063004
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.69.063004
Abstract
We present a complete treatment in the strong field limit of gravitational retrolensing by a static spherically symmetric compact object having a photon sphere. The results are compared with those corresponding to ordinary lensing in similar strong field situations. As examples of the application of the formalism, a supermassive black hole at the Galactic center and a stellar mass black hole in the Galactic halo are studied as retrolenses, in both cases using Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordström geometries.Keywords
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