Boosted Kerr Black Hole in the Presence of Plasma

Abstract

In this work, we obtain the deflection angle for a boosted Kerr black hole in the weak field approximation using the optics in a curved spacetime developed by J. L. Synge in 1960. We study the behavior of light in the presence of plasma by considering different distributions: uniform plasma, singular isothermal sphere, non-singular isothermal gas sphere, and plasma in a galaxy cluster. We found that the dragging of the inertial system along with the boosted parameter Λ affect the value of the deflection angle. As an application, we studied the magnification for both uniform and singular isothermal distributions.

Keywords

• optics in curved spacetimes
• gravitational lensing
• weak field limit
• boosted Kerr metric
• plasma distribuions
• magnification