| Issue |
A&A
Volume 396, Number 2, December III 2002
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 393 - 396 | |
| Section | Astrophysical processes | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021356 | |
| Published online | 03 December 2002 | |
Gravitational lensing by spherically symmetric lenses with angular momentum
1
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II", and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sez. Napoli, via Cinthia, Compl. Univ. Monte S. Angelo, 80126 Napoli, Italia
2
Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello", Università di Salerno, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sez. Napoli, gr. Salerno, via S. Allende, 84081 Baronissi (Salerno), Italia
Corresponding author: M. Sereno, sereno@na.infn.it
Received:
31
July
2002
Accepted:
11
August
2002
Following Sereno (2002a), we discuss the bending of light rays by spherically symmetric lenses with angular momentum. For several astrophysical systems, such as white dwarfs and galaxies, gravitomagnetism induces a correction on the deflection angle as large as 0.1 %.
Key words: astrometry / stars: rotation / cosmology: theory / cosmology: gravitational lensing
© ESO, 2002
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