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Wave-optics effects in strongly lensed gravitational waves (GWs) provide a new interferometric probe of dark matter substructure. We compute the full diffraction integral for GWs propagating through statistically generated cold dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Shin'ichiro Ando

Wave optics may need to be considered when studying the lensed waveforms of gravitational waves (GWs). However, the computation of the diffraction integral (amplification factor) in wave optics is challenging and time-consuming. It is vital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-08 Xiao Guo , Youjun Lu

Every signal propagating through the universe is at least weakly lensed by the intervening gravitational field. In some situations, wave-optics phenomena (diffraction, interference) can be observed as frequency-dependent modulations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-30 Stefano Savastano , Giovanni Tambalo , Hector Villarrubia-Rojo , Miguel Zumalacarregui

Like light, gravitational waves can be gravitationally lensed by massive astrophysical objects. Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies and galaxy clusters is anticipated to become observable in the coming years. This phenomenon will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Leo C. Y. Ng , Justin Janquart , Hemantakumar Phurailatpam , Harsh Narola , Jason S. C. Poon , Chris Van Den Broeck , Otto A. Hannuksela

Continuous gravitational waves are analogous to monochromatic light and therefore could be used to detect wave effects like interference or diffraction. This would be possible with strongly lensed gravitational waves. This article reviews…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Marek Biesiada , Sreekanth Harikumar

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,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 So Tanaka , Teruaki Suyama

Microlenses with typical stellar masses (a few ${\rm M}_{\odot}$) have traditionally been disregarded as potential sources of gravitational lensing effects at LIGO/Virgo frequencies, since the time delays are often much smaller than the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 J. M. Diego , O. A. Hannuksela , P. L. Kelly , T. Broadhurst , K. Kim , T. G. F. Li , G. F. Smoot

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

Strongly lensed gravitational waves may pass through the stellar field of a lensing galaxy with additional modulations (on both phase and amplitude) due to gravitational microlensing effect of stars/remnants near the line of sight. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Zhaoqi Su , Xikai Shan , Zhenwei Lyu , Junyao Zhang , Yebin Liu , Shude Mao , Huan Yang

The mass-sheet degeneracy is a well-known problem in gravitational lensing which limits our capability to infer astrophysical lens properties or cosmological parameters from observations. As the number of gravitational wave observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Paolo Cremonese , Jose María Ezquiaga , Vincenzo Salzano

Wave effects can be important for the gravitational lensing of gravitational waves. In such a case, wave optics must be used in stead of geometric optics. We consider a plane wave entering a lens object and solve numerically the wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Teruaki Suyama , Ryuichi Takahashi , Shugo Michikoshi

When gravitational waves pass near a gravitating object, they are deflected, or lensed. If the object is massive, such that the wavelength of the waves is small compared to its gravitational size, lensed gravitational wave events can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-22 Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Ken K. Y. Ng , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Emanuele Berti

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

Gravitational waves from binary black holes that are gravitationally lensed can be distorted by small microlenses along the line of sight. Microlenses with masses of a few tens of solar masses, and that are close to a critical curve in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Jose M. Diego

The gravitational lensing of gravitational waves should be treated in the wave optics instead of the geometrical optics when the wave length $\lambda$ of the gravitational waves is larger than the Schwarzschild radius of the lens mass $M$.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ryuichi Takahashi

Gravitational waves (GWs) can be deflected, similarly to electromagnetic (EM) waves, by massive objects through the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. The importance of gravitational lensing for GW astronomy is becoming increasingly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-08 Eungwang Seo , Tjonnie Guan Feng Li , Martin Anthony Hendry

Since the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015, gravitational-wave astronomy has emerged as a rapidly advancing field that holds great potential for studying the cosmos, from probing the properties of black holes to testing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-17 Anna Liu , Isaac C. F. Wong , Samson H. W. Leong , Anupreeta More , Otto A. Hannuksela , Tjonnie G. F. Li

Detection of quasi-monochromatic, long-duration (continuous) gravitational wave radiation emitted by, e.g., asymmetric rotating neutron stars in our Galaxy requires a long observation time to distinguish it from the detector's noise. If…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Sudhagar Suyamprakasam , Sreekanth Harikumar , Paweł Ciecieląg , Przemysław Figura , Michał Bejger , Marek Biesiada

Strong gravitational lensing produces multiple images of a gravitational wave (GW) signal, which can be observed by detectors as time-separated copies of the same event. It has been shown that under favourable circumstances, by combining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-04 Harsh Narola , Justin Janquart , Leïla Haegel , K. Haris , Otto A. Hannuksela , Chris Van Den Broeck

We explore the impact of corrections to the propagation on the waveforms of gravitationally lensed gravitational waves under the geometrical optics approximation, focusing on both uniform cosmological modifications and local modifications…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Hiroki Takeda , Takahiro Tanaka