Contribution of the cosmological constant to the bending of light in Kerr-de Sitter spacetime
Abstract
We examine the effect of the cosmological constant Λ on the angle of deflection of null geodesics in the equatorial plane of the Kerr-de Sitter spacetime. This is done by employing a procedure used recently by Rindler and Ishak to obtain the bending angle of light in the Schwarzschild-de Sitter geometry. We show that this approach yields a contribution from the cosmological constant in the expression for the bending angle.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- August 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.042003
- Bibcode:
- 2013PhRvD..88d2003S
- Keywords:
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- 04.80.Cc;
- 95.30.Sf;
- 98.62.Sb;
- Experimental tests of gravitational theories;
- Relativity and gravitation;
- Gravitational lenses and luminous arcs