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Accurate analytic formula for light bending in Schwarzschild metric

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 نشر من قبل Juri Poutanen
 تاريخ النشر 2019
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We propose new analytic formulae describing light bending in Schwarzschild metric. For emission radii above the photon orbit at 1.5 Schwarzschild radius, the formulae have an accuracy of better than 0.2% for the bending angle and 3% for the lensing factor for any trajectories that turn around a compact object by less than about 160 deg. In principle, they can be applied to any emission point above the horizon of the black hole. The proposed approximation can be useful for problems involving emission from neutron stars and accretion discs around compact objects when fast accurate calculations of light bending are required. It can also be used to test the codes that compute light bending using exact expressions via elliptical integrals.

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