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Gravitational waves (GWs) from the compact binary coalescence provide direct measurement of the luminosity distance to the event. However, unlike binary neutron stars, redshift information is not available from GW observations of binary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Tathagata Ghosh , Surhud More

Gravitational-wave (GW) scattering in strong gravitational fields is a central problem in GW lensing. Yet, conventional treatments based on asymptotic expansions suffer from divergences and become unreliable near the optical axis. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Zhao Li , Shaoqi Hou , Wen Zhao

High frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs) are predicted in various exotic scenarios involving both cosmological and astrophysical sources. These elusive signals have recently sparked the interest of a diverse community of researchers, due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Claudio Gatti , Luca Visinelli , Michael Zantedeschi

Recent non-detection of gravitational-wave backgrounds from pulsar timing arrays casts further uncertainty on the evolution of supermassive black hole binaries. We study the capabilities of current gravitational-wave observatories to detect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-14 Pablo A. Rosado , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane , Xingjiang Zhu , Ilya Mandel , Alberto Sesana

Gravitational waves (GWs) are unique messengers as they travel through the Universe without alteration except for gravitational lensing. Their long wavelengths make them susceptible to diffraction by cosmic structures, providing an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 Juno C. L. Chan , Jose María Ezquiaga , Rico K. L. Lo , Joey Bowman , Lorena Magaña Zertuche , Luka Vujeva

The detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary black holes by the LIGO Collaboration has opened a new window to astrophysics. With the sensitivities of ground based detectors in the coming years we can only detect the local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Ilias Cholis

Strongly lensed gravitational waves (GWs) from binary coalescence manifest as repeated chirps from the original merger. At the detectors, the phase of the lensed GWs and its arrival time differences will be consistent modulo a fixed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-17 Jose María Ezquiaga , Wayne Hu , Rico K. L. Lo

In this work we study gravitational lensing of neutrinos by Schwarzschild black holes. In particular, we analyze the case of a neutrino transient source associated with a gamma-ray burst lensed by a supermassive black hole located at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Gustavo E. Romero

The inspiral and merger of two orbiting black holes is among the most promising sources for the first (hopefully imminent) direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs), and measurements of these signals could provide a wealth of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Mark Hannam

We consider gravitational wave (GW) sources with an associated electromagnetic (EM) counterpart, and analyze the time delay between both signals in the presence of lensing. If GWs have wavelengths comparable to the Schwarzschild radius of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Jose María Ezquiaga , Wayne Hu , Macarena Lagos

Lensed gravitational wave (GW) events are expected to be powerful new probes of cosmology, contingent on redshift measurement by electromagnetic observations. Host galaxy identification is thus crucial but challenging due to poor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Zhiwei Chen , Qingjuan Yu , Youjun Lu , Xiao Guo

The study of light lensed by cosmic matter has yielded much information about astrophysical questions. Observations are explained using geometrical optics following a ray-based description of light. After deflection the lensed light…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo , Thao P. Nguyen , Kiyan S. Hocek , Jacob M. Freedman , Enrique J. Galvez

The gravitational waves (GWs) has been a topic of interest for its versatile capabilities of probing several aspects of cosmology and early Universe. Gravitational lensing enhances further the extent of this sort of waves and upgrade our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-20 Ashadul Halder , Shibaji Banerjee , Debasish Majumdar

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

The high-mass ($M \gtrsim 30 M_\odot$) black holes (BHs) from the gravitational-wave (GW) observations of LIGO and Virgo came as a surprise to many astronomers. While the collapse of metal-poor massive stars could produce such BHs,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-17 Ritesh Harshe , R. Prasad , Parameswaran Ajith

Strong gravitational lensing occurs when photons pass through the vicinity of a black hole. We investigate this phenomenon in the context of a gravitational-wave event, specifically when a black hole is settling into its final state. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-29 Zhen Zhong , Vitor Cardoso , Yifan Chen

A stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) would gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons. We find that the lensing due to gravitational waves(GW) is more efficient as compared to lensing due to scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Aditya Rotti , Tarun Souradeep

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

The advent of gravitational-wave astronomy is now allowing for the study of compact binary merger demographics throughout the Universe. This information can be leveraged as tools for understanding massive stars, their environments, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-12 Kevin Turbang , Max Lalleman , Thomas A. Callister , Nick van Remortel

In this work, we investigate the effect of gravitational lensing on the gravitational wave (GW) signals of a population of tidal disruption events (TDEs). We estimate the number of lensed-magnified signals that we expect to detect with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-24 Martina Toscani , Elena M. Rossi , Nicola Tamanini , Giulia Cusin