Solution

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For a grazing null geodesic, take the impact parameter as . The leading Schwarzschild light deflection is
With the gravitational constant and speed of light ,
Here , so the weak-field approximation is appropriate. A ray passing at a larger impact parameter has a correspondingly smaller deflection.

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