Gravitational lensing by regular black holes surrounded by plasma

Abstract

In the weak field approximation, we study the gravitational lensing near the regular Bardeen, Hayward and Ayon-Beato–Garcia (ABG) black holes surrounded by plasma. The exact expressions for the deflection angle of the photons due to the effect of the gravitational field and the plasma have been obtained. The analysis of the image source brightness magnification in the background spacetimes of (i) Bardeen, (ii) Hayward and (iii) ABG regular black holes have shown that the increase of the corresponding charge of regular black hole causes the increase in the magnification of the source image. In addition to the primary ring, one may observe the secondary ring with smaller magnification. The influence of the plasma with (i) constant and (ii) radial power law electron density to the magnification of the source image has been studied.