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Total light bending in non-asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes
Flavio C. Sánchez, Armando A. Roque, Benito Rodríguez, Javier Chagoya
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The gravitational deflection of light is a critical test of modified theories of gravity. A few years ago, Gibbons and Werner introduced a definition of the deflection angle based on the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. In more recent years, Arakida proposed a related idea for defining the deflection angle in non-asymptotically flat spacetimes. We revisit this idea and use it to compute the angular difference in the Kottler geometry and a non-asymptotically flat solution in Horndeski gravity. Our analytic and numerical calculations show that a triangular array of laser beams can be designed so that the proposed definition of the deflection angle is sensitive to different sources of curvature. Moreover, we find that near the photon sphere, the deflection angle in the Horndeski solution is similar to its Schwarzschild counterpart, and we confirm that the shadows seen by a static observer are identical.
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