 Schwarzschild light deflection (source code)

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= Schwarzschild light deflection
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A null Schwarzschild geodesic with $b\gg r_s$ is deflected through $2r_s/b=4GM/(bc^2)$ to first order.

This is the leading spherical-mass deflection underlying a <gravitational lens>.

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