Journal article
Weak gravitational flexion in various spacetimes: Exotic lenses and modified gravity
PHYSICAL REVIEW D, v 106(6), 64019
09 Sep 2022
Abstract
Exotic objects such as the Ellis wormhole are expected to act as gravitational lenses. Much like their nonexotic counterparts, information about these lenses can be found by considering the strong and weak lensing fields they induce. In this work, we consider how weak gravitational lensing flexion can provide information beyond that of shear. We find that directional flexion can distinguish between the case of a positive or negative convergence where directional shear cannot, and therefore can provide a unique lensing signature for objects with an Ellis wormhole-type metric. We also consider cosmic flexion, the flexion correlation function whose signal originates from the large-scale structure of the Universe, in the context of modified gravity. We find flexion to be a unique probe of parametric models of modified gravity, particularly in the case of scale-dependent phenomenological post-general relativity functions.
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- Title
- Weak gravitational flexion in various spacetimes: Exotic lenses and modified gravity
- Publication Details
- PHYSICAL REVIEW D, v 106(6), 64019
- Publisher
- AMER PHYSICAL SOC; COLLEGE PK
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000984813700003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85138204644
- Other Identifier
- 991021861195804721
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