Parameters estimation and strong gravitational lensing of nonsingular Kerr-Sen black holes

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The recent time witnessed a surge of interest in strong gravitational lensing by black holes is due to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) results, which suggest comparing the black hole lensing in both general relativity and heterotic string theory.

• That may help us to assess the phenomenological differences between these models.
• Motivated by this, we consider gravitational lensing by the nonsingular Kerr-Sen black holes, which encompass Kerr black holes as a particular case, to calculate the light deflection coefficients $p$ and $q$ in strong-field limits, while the former increases with increasing parameters $k$ and charge $b$, later decrease.
• We also find a decrease in the light deflection angle $\alpha_D$, angular position $\theta_{\infty}$ decreases more slowly and impact parameter for photon orbits $u_{m}$ more quickly, but angular separation $s$ increases more rapidly with parameters $b$ and $k$.