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Similar to the light, gravitational waves traveling in multiple paths may arrive at the same location if there is a gravitational lens on their way. Apart from the magnification of the amplitudes and the time delay between the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-19 Shaoqi Hou , Xi-Long Fan , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitational waves from the distant sources are gravitationally lensed during their propagation through the intervening matter inhomogeneities before arriving at detectors. It has been proposed in the literature that the variance of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Makoto Inamori , Teruaki Suyama

Black hole lensing and gravitational waves are, respectively, closely dependent of the property of the lens and radiation source. In this letter, a universal relation between them is established for a rotating black hole acting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-26 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

It is expected that gravitational waves, similar to electromagnetic waves, can be gravitationally lensed by intervening matters, producing multiple instances of the same signal arriving at different times from different apparent luminosity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Rico K. L. Lo , Ignacio Magana Hernandez

Recent rapid progress in time domain surveys makes it possible to detect various types of explosive transients in the Universe in large numbers, some of which will be gravitationally lensed into multiple images. Although a large number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Masamune Oguri

The diffraction patterns of lensed gravitational waves encode information about their propagation speeds. If gravitons have mass, the dispersion relation and speed of gravitational waves will be affected in a frequency-dependent manner,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-23 Ka-Wai Chung , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

Strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) occurs when the GWs from a compact binary system travel near a massive object. The mismatch between a lensed signal and unlensed templates determines whether lensing can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Saif Ali , Evangelos Stoikos , Evan Meade , Michael Kesden , Lindsay King

In a gravitational lensing system, the relative transverse velocities of the lens, source, and observer induce a frequency shift in the observed radiation. While this shift is typically negligible in most astrophysical contexts, strategies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Mikołaj Korzyński , Mateusz Kulejewski

In this work, the strong lensing effect of the memory signal was considered. In the geometric optics limit, the lensed memory signal becomes oscillatory, while the unlensed is basically monotonic. This is because only the high frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Ruanjing Zhang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Shaoqi Hou , Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Zong-Hong Zhu

If an extended source, such as a galaxy, is gravitationally lensed by a massive object in the foreground, the lensing distorts the observed image. It is straightforward to simulate what the observed image would be for a particular lens and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Brendon J. Brewer , Geraint F. Lewis

Gravitational lensing has developed into one of the most powerful tools for the analysis of the dark universe. This review summarises the theory of gravitational lensing, its main current applications and representative results achieved so…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthias Bartelmann

To recognize gravitational wave lensing events and being able to differentiate between similar lens models will be of crucial importance once one will be observing several lensing events of gravitational waves per year. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-03 Paolo Cremonese , David F. Mota , Vincenzo Salzano

Similar to light, gravitational waves (GWs) can be lensed. Such lensing phenomena can magnify the waves, create multiple images observable as repeated events, and superpose several waveforms together, inducing potentially discernible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-19 Kyungmin Kim , Joongoo Lee , Robin S. H. Yuen , Otto Akseli Hannuksela , Tjonnie G. F. Li

Gravitational lensing refers to the deflection of light by the gravity of celestial bodies, often predominantly composed of dark matter. Seen through a gravitational lens, the images of distant galaxies appear distorted. In this paper we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Hans Georg Schaatun , Ben David Normann , Einar Leite Austnes , Simon Ingebrigtsen , Sondre Westbø Remøy , Simon Nedreberg Runde

We study the problem of gravitational lensing by an isothermal elliptical density galaxy in the presence of a tidal perturbation. When the perturbation is fairly strong and oriented near the galaxy's minor axis, the lens can produce image…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. R. Keeton , S. Mao , H. J. Witt

We discuss the amplitude and phase fluctuations of gravitational waves due to wave optics lensing in the presence of both a strong lens and cosmological weak lenses. By applying the geometric optics approximation to the strong lens and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Yuta Nakazono , Teruaki Suyama

Many distant objects can only be detected, or become more scientifically valuable, if they have been highly magnified by strong gravitational lensing. We use EAGLE and BAHAMAS, two recent cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, to predict…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Andrew Robertson , Graham P. Smith , Richard Massey , Vincent Eke , Mathilde Jauzac , Matteo Bianconi , Dan Ryczanowski

Gravitational lensing is the phenomenon arising when light rays are deflected by the mass between the source and the observer. Largely magnified and highly distorted images of background galaxies are formed by these angular deflections if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Atınç Çağan Şengül

Gravitational lensing is an invaluable probe of the nature of dark matter, and the structures it forms. Lensed gravitational waves in particular allow for unparalleled sensitivity to small scale structures within the lenses, due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Luka Vujeva , Jose María Ezquiaga , Daniel Gilman , Srashti Goyal , Miguel Zumalacárregui

Gravitational lensing is the deflection of light rays due to the gravity of intervening masses. This phenomenon is observed in a variety of scales and configurations, involving any non-uniform mass such as planets, stars, galaxies, clusters…