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Revisiting perfect fluid dark matter: Observational constraints from our galaxy
We revisit certain features of an assumed spherically symmetric perfect fluid
dark matter halo in the light of the observed data of our galax
The Vacuole Model: New Terms in the Second Order Deflection of Light
The present paper is an extension of a recent work (Bhattacharya et al. 2010)
to the Einstein-Strauss vacuole model with a cosmological constant, where we
work out the light deflection by considering perturbations up to order M^3 and
confirm the light bending obtained previously in their vacuole model by Ishak
et al. (2008). We also obtain another local coupling term
-((5{\pi}M^2{\Lambda})/8) related to {\Lambda}, in addition to the one obtained
by Sereno (2008, 2009). We argue that the vacuole method for light deflection
is exclusively suited to cases where the cosmological constant {\Lambda}
disappears from the path equation. However, the original Rindler-Ishak method
(2007) still applies even if a certain parameter {\gamma} of Weyl gravity does
not disappear. Here, using an alternative prescription, we obtain the known
term -(({\gamma}R)/2), as well as another new local term ((3{\pi}{\gamma}M)/2)
between M and {\gamma}. Physical implications are compared, where we argue that
the repulsive term -(({\gamma}R)/2) can be masked by the Schwarzschild term
((2M)/R) in the halo regime supporting attractive property of the dark matter.Comment: 15 page