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Space-borne gravitational wave detectors like TianQin are expected to detect GW signals emitted by the mergers of massive black hole binaries. Luminosity distance information can be obtained from GW observations, and one can perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-05 Liang-Gui Zhu , Yi-Ming Hu , Hai-Tian Wang , Jian-dong Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li , Martin Hendry , Jianwei Mei

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies provides us with a unique opportunity to understand the nature of gravity on galactic and extra-galactic scales. In this paper, we propose a new multimessenger approach using data from both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Tao Yang , Bin Hu , Rong-Gen Cai , Bin Wang

Merging supermassive black hole binaries is expected as a consequence of galaxy mergers, yet the detailed evolution path and underlying merging mechanisms of these binaries are still subject to large theoretical uncertainties. In this work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-29 Yun Fang , Huan Yang

We show how LIGO is expected to detect coalescing binary black holes at $z>1$, that are lensed by the intervening galaxy population. Gravitational magnification, $\mu$, strengthens gravitational wave signals by $\sqrt{\mu}$, without…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Ken K. Y. Ng , Kaze W. K. Wong , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Tom Broadhurst

Gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black hole mergers provide unique opportunities for cosmological inference such as standard sirens. However, the accurate determination of the luminosity distance of the event is limited by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-24 Qianyun Yun , Wen-Biao Han , Qian Hu , Haiguang Xu

Gravitational waves (GWs) from stellar-mass compact binary coalescences (CBCs) are expected to be strongly lensed when encountering large agglomerations of matter, such as galaxies or clusters. Searches for strongly lensed GWs have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-08 Srashti Goyal , Shasvath Kapadia , Jean-Rene Cudell , Alvin K. Y. Li , Juno C. L. Chan

The recent discovery of gravitational waves (GWs) from stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) provided direct evidence of the existence of these systems. BBH lenses would have gravitational microlensing signatures that are distinct from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-20 Daniel H. Eilbott , Alexander H. Riley , Jonathan H. Cohn , Michael Kesden , Lindsay J. King

The detailed observation of the distribution of redshifts and chirp masses of binary black hole mergers is expected to provide a clue to their origin. In this paper, we develop a hybrid model of the probability distribution function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-11 Masamune Oguri

Gravitational wave signals from coalescing Massive Black Hole (MBH) binaries could be used as standard sirens to measure cosmological parameters. The future space based gravitational wave observatory Laser Interferometer Space Antenna…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Antoine Petiteau , Stanislav Babak , Alberto Sesana

Making an unambiguous detection of lensed gravitational waves is challenging with current generation detectors due to large uncertainties in sky localisations and other inferred parameter distributions. However, in the case of binary…

The number of observed gravitational wave (GW) events is growing fast thanks to rapidly improving detector sensitivities. GWs from compact binary coalescences like Black Holes or Neutron Stars behave like standard sirens and can be used as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Giona Sala , Alessandro Cuoco , Julien Lesgourgues , Kostantinos-Rafail Revis , Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi , Santiago Casas

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

Detection of higher order modes of gravitational waves in third-generation (3G) ground-based detectors such as Cosmic Explorer and Einstein Telescope is explored. Using the astrophysical population of binary black holes based on events…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-25 Divyajyoti , Preet Baxi , Chandra Kant Mishra , K. G. Arun

We introduce a new technique to search for gravitational wave events from compact binary mergers that produce a clear signal only in a single gravitational wave detector, and marginal signals in other detectors. Such a situation can arise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Barak Zackay , Liang Dai , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Javier Roulet , Matias Zaldarriaga

We calculate the expected nHz--$\mu$Hz gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from coalescing Massive Black Hole (MBH) binaries resulting from mergers of their host galaxies. We consider detection of this spectrum by precision pulsar timing and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew H. Jaffe , Donald C. Backer

The light we observe from distant astrophysical objects including supernovae and quasars allows us to determine large distances in terms of a cosmological model. Despite the success of the standard cosmological model in fitting the data,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Angela L. H. Ng

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) offer insights into the universe expansion. The spectral siren method, used without electromagnetic counterparts (EMC), infers cosmic expansion (Hubble constant) by relating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-28 Grégoire Pierra

Strong lensing of gravitational wave (GW) sources allows the observer to see the GW source from different lines-of-sight (LOS) through the corresponding images, which provides a way for constraining the relative proper motion of the GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-23 Johan Samsing , Lorenz Zwick , Pankaj Saini , Kai Hendriks , Rico K. L. Lo , Luka Vujeva , Georgi D. Radev , Yan Yu

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers,, an important source of gravitational-waves(GWs), are assumed to be hosted in galaxies. The probability of a galaxy to host a BBH is related to its properties, for example stellar mass and star formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-22 Zhuotao Li , Rachel Gray , Ik Siong Heng

The coherent nature of gravitational wave emanating from a compact binary system makes it possible to detect some interference patterns in two (or more) signals registered simultaneously by the detector. Gravitational lensing effect can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Shaoqi Hou , Pengbo Li , Hai Yu , Marek Biesiada , Xi-Long Fan , Seiji Kawamura , Zong-Hong Zhu
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