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Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves provides a powerful probe of the mass density distribution in the universe. Wave optics effects, such as diffraction, make the lensing effect sensitive to the structure around the Fresnel scale,…

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The detection of gravitational waves opened up a new window to look into the Universe by probing phenomena invisible through electromagnetic observations. As gravitational waves interact very weakly with matter, their detection is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-29 Soumen Roy , Bruno Bertrand , Justin Janquart

This work introduces a novel deep learning-based approach for gravitational wave anomaly detection, aiming to overcome the limitations of traditional matched filtering techniques in identifying unknown waveform gravitational wave signals.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jianqi Yan , Alex P. Leung , Zhiyuan Pei , David C. Y. Hui , Sangin Kim

Gravitational wave searches rely on a combination of methods, including matched filtering, coherent analyses, and more recent machine learning based pipelines. For compact binary coalescences, where signals originate from the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Lorenzo Mobilia , Tito Dal Canton , Gianluca Maria Guidi

Gravitational waves (GWs) are lensed by matter, offering a unique probe of both the large-scale structure of the Universe and the fundamental properties of GW propagation. GWs can also be affected by wave optics effects when their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Juno C. L. Chan , Conor Dyson , Matilde Garcia , Jaime Redondo-Yuste , Luka Vujeva

Alternative theories of gravity predict up to six distinct polarization modes for gravitational waves. Strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves allows us to probe the polarization content of these signals by effectively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Ignacio Magaña Hernandez

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of compact-binary sources are now routinely observed by Earth bound detectors. The most sensitive search algorithms convolve many different pre-calculated gravitational waveforms with the detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-11 Marlin B. Schäfer , Alexander H. Nitz

The wave effect in the gravitational lensing phenomenon by a straight cosmic string is investigated. The interference pattern is expressed in terms of a simple formula. We demonstrate that modulations of the interfered wave amplitude can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Keiji Tsunoda

Gravitational waves emitted during compact binary coalescences are a promising source for gravitational-wave detector networks. The accuracy with which the location of the source on the sky can be inferred from gravitational wave data is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 K. Grover , S. Fairhurst , B. F. Farr , I. Mandel , C. Rodriguez , T. Sidery , A. Vecchio

A laser interferometric detector of gravitational waves is studied and a complete solution (to first order in the metric perturbation) of the coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations with appropriate boundary conditions for the light beams is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 F. I. Cooperstock , V. Faraoni

We report on the construction of a deep convolutional neural network that can reproduce the sensitivity of a matched-filtering search for binary black hole gravitational-wave signals. The standard method for the detection of well modeled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Hunter Gabbard , Michael Williams , Fergus Hayes , Chris Messenger

The gravitational waves emitted by massive black hole binaries in the LISA band can be lensed. Wave-optics effects in the lensed signal are crucial when the Schwarzschild radius of the lens is smaller than the wavelength of the radiation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Mesut Çalışkan , Lingyuan Ji , Roberto Cotesta , Emanuele Berti , Marc Kamionkowski , Sylvain Marsat

We examine gravitational wave memory in the case where sources and detector are in a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. We consider the case where the universe can be highly inhomogeneous, but the gravitatational radiation is treated in the short…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle , Nicolas Yunes

Gravitational lensing can magnify a distant source, revealing structural detail which is normally unresolvable. Recovering this detail through an inversion of the influence of gravitational lensing, however, requires optimisation of not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Brendon J. Brewer , Geraint F. Lewis

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

In this study, we demonstrate that general relativity predicts arrival time differences between gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) signals caused by the wave effects in gravitational lensing. The GW signals can arrive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Ryuichi Takahashi

Gravitational wave detection requires an in-depth understanding of the physical properties of gravitational wave signals, and the noise from which they are extracted. Understanding the statistical properties of noise is a complex endeavor,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-05 Wei Wei , E. A. Huerta

Massive objects located between Earth and a compact binary merger can act as a magnifying glass improving the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors to distant events. Depending on the parameters of the system, a point mass lens…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-27 Ruxandra Bondarescu , Helena Ubach , Oleg Bulashenko , Andrew P. Lundgren

Gravitational lensing of electromagnetic (EM) waves has yielded many profound discoveries across fundamental physics, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. Similar to EM waves, gravitational waves (GWs) can also be lensed. When their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Zhao-Feng Wu , Otto A. Hannuksela , Martin Hendry , Quynh Lan Nguyen

Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves is expected to be observed in current and future detectors. In view of the growing number of detections, computationally light pipelines are needed. Detection pipelines used in past…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Jef Heynen , Soumen Roy , Justin Janquart