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Strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) has been forecasted to become detectable in the upcoming observing runs. However, definitively distinguishing pairs of lensed sources from random associations is a challenging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Mesut Çalışkan , Jose María Ezquiaga , Otto A. Hannuksela , Daniel E. Holz

Gravitational lensing has been extensively observed for electromagnetic signals, but not yet for gravitational waves (GWs). Detecting lensed GWs will have many astrophysical and cosmological applications, and becomes more feasible as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-12 Ángel Garrón , David Keitel

Gravitational waves are theorized to be gravitationally lensed when they propagate near massive objects. Such lensing effects cause potentially detectable repeated gravitational wave patterns in ground- and space-based gravitational wave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-07 Amit Jit Singh , Ivan S. C. Li , Otto A. Hannuksela , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Kyungmin Kim

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy offers the potential to probe the wave-optics regime of gravitational lensing. Wave optics (WO) effects are relevant at low frequencies, when the wavelength is comparable to the characteristic lensing time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Giovanni Tambalo , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Liang Dai , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung

Gravitational lensing offers unique opportunities to learn about the astrophysical origin of distant sources, the abundance of intervening objects acting as lenses, and gravity and cosmology in general. However, all this information can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Anson Chen , Paolo Cremonese , Jose María Ezquiaga , David Keitel

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

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

The gravitational lensing of gravitational waves might cause beat patterns detectable by interferometers. The feature of this kind of signal is the existence of the beat pattern in the early inspiral phase, followed by a seemingly randomly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-10 Shaoqi Hou , Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Strong gravitational lenses allow us to peer into the farthest reaches of space by bending the light from a background object around a massive object in the foreground. Unfortunately, these lenses are extremely rare, and manually finding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-24 Stephen Sheng , Keerthi Vasan G. C , Chi Po Choi , James Sharpnack , Tucker Jones

It is shown that accurate photometric observations of a relatively high--magnification microlensing event ($A\gg 1$), occurring close to the line of sight of a gravitational wave (GW) source, represented by a binary star, can allow the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Ragazzoni , G. Valente , E. Marchetti

Like light, gravitational waves are gravitationally lensed by intervening massive astrophysical objects, such as galaxies, clusters, black holes, and stars, resulting in a variety of potentially observable gravitational-wave lensing…

LISA might detect gravitational waves from mergers of massive black hole binaries strongly lensed by intervening galaxies (Sereno et al. 2010). The detection of multiple gravitational lensing events would provide a new tool for cosmography.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Sereno , Ph. Jetzer , A. Sesana , M. Volonteri

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

Like light, gravitational waves can be gravitationally lensed by massive objects along their travel path. Strong lensing produces several images from the same binary coalescence and is forecasted to have a promising rate in ground-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-16 Justin Janquart , Otto A. Hannuksela , K. Haris , Chris Van Den Broeck

Plane-symmetric gravitational waves are considered as gravitational lenses. Numbers of images, frequency shifts, mutual angles, and image distortion parameters are computed exactly in essentially all non-singular plane wave spacetimes. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Abraham I. Harte

Dark matter structures within strong gravitational lens galaxies and along their line of sight leave a gravitational imprint on the multiple images of lensed sources. Strong gravitational lensing provides, therefore, a key test of different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 S. Vegetti , S. Birrer , G. Despali , C. D. Fassnacht , D. Gilman , Y. Hezaveh , L. Perreault Levasseur , J. P. McKean , D. M. Powell , C. M. O'Riordan , G. Vernardos

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

Discovery of strongly-lensed gravitational wave (GW) sources will unveil binary compact objects at higher redshifts and lower intrinsic luminosities than is possible without lensing. Such systems will yield unprecedented constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 G. P. Smith , C. P. L. Berry , M. Bianconi , W. M. Farr , M. Jauzac , R. J. Massey , J. Richard , A. Robertson , K. Sharon , A. Vecchio , J. Veitch

Next generation gravitational waves (GWs) observatories are expected to measure GW signals with unprecedented sensitivity, opening new, independent avenues to learn about our Universe. The distance-redshift relation is a fulcrum for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Sofia Canevarolo , Nora Elisa Chisari

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