A Simple Optical Analysis of Gravitational Lensing

Details A Simple Optical Analysis of Gravitational Lensing A Simple Optical Analysis of Gravitational Lensing

2007-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/0704.3485v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

4 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1080/09500340701618395

We analyzed the influence of static gravitational field on the vacuum and proposed the concept of inhomogeneous vacuum. According to the corresponding Fermat's principle in the general relativity, we derived a graded refractive index of vacuum in a static gravitational field. We found that the light deflection in a gravitational field can be calculated correctly with the use of this refractive index and therefore the gravitational lensing can be treated conveniently with the optical method. For illustration, we simulated the imaging of gravitational lensing, figured out the time delay between the two images and calculated the lens mass in a conventional optical way.

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