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Joint Bayesian Source and Lens Reconstruction for Multi-messenger Binary Black Holes

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2026-03-11 v1

Abstract

If a gravitational wave event is lensed by a cluster or galaxy in our line-of-sight, it is expected that its host galaxy would also be lensed. Therefore, connecting lensed gravitational wave events even without direct optical counterpart could be feasible by identifying matching lenses in electromagnetic data and surveys. Seminal work has demonstrated the potential of this approach in LVK, Euclid, HST, JWST, and CSST mock data, motivating the need for a dedicated software package to perform such analyses in practice. Here, we present the alpha-version of silmarel, the first software package designed to bridge these cosmic signals and enable us analysis of real LVK gravitational-wave binaries together with telescope observations from instruments like \textit{Euclid} or \textit{Hubble} Space Telescope, and the future of multimessenger binary black hole lensing.

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@article{arxiv.2603.09794,
  title  = {Joint Bayesian Source and Lens Reconstruction for Multi-messenger Binary Black Holes},
  author = {Laura Uronen and Tian Li and Justin Janquart and Hemanta Phurailatpam and Jason Poon and Thomas Collett and Leon Koopmans and Otto Hannuksela},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.09794},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure. Submitted to the proceedings of MaxEnt 2025

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