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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

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

This paper studies gravitational lensing degeneracies in the wave-optics regime, focusing on lensed gravitational waves (GWs). Considering lensing degeneracies as re-scaling (or transformations) of arrival time delay surface, we can divide…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Ashish Kumar Meena

Plasma lensing events can have significant observational consequences, including flux density modulations and perturbations in pulse arrival times. In this paper we develop and apply a formalism that extends geometrical optics to describe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Gianfranco Grillo , James Cordes

When it comes to long-wavelength gravitational waves (GWs), diffraction effect becomes significant when these waves are lensed by celestial bodies. Typically, the traditional diffraction integral formula neglects large-angle diffraction,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-16 Xiao Guo , Zhoujian Cao

The Universe's matter inhomogeneity gravitationally affects the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs), causing the lensing effect. Particularly, the weak lensing of GWs has been studied within the range of the Born approximation to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-08 Morifumi Mizuno , Teruaki Suyama

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

With the increase in the number of observed gravitational wave (GW) signals, detecting strongly lensed GWs by galaxies has become a real possibility. Lens galaxies also contain microlenses (e.g., stars and black holes), introducing further…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-05 Ashish Kumar Meena , Anuj Mishra , Anupreeta More , Sukanta Bose , Jasjeet Singh Bagla

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

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

We present a new framework for modeling gravitational wave diffraction near fold caustics using the Uniform Approximation (UA), focusing on binary mass lenses - axially asymmetric systems with complex caustic structures. Full-wave methods…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Anna Moreso Serra , Oleg Bulashenko

Gravitational microlensing in the wave-optics (WO) regime occurs when the Schwarzschild radius of a lensing object is comparable to or smaller than the wavelength of incoming gravitational waves (GWs), producing chromatic amplitude and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-21 Aniruddha Chakraborty , Suvodip Mukherjee

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

The space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors are expected to observe lensed GW events, offering new opportunities for cosmology and fundamental physics.Across the millihertz band, lensing effects transition from the wave-optics regime…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Tianlong Wang , Tianyu Zhao , Minghui Du , Ziren Luo , Peng Dong , Peng Xu

We study lensing of gravitational waves by a black hole in the deep wave optics regime, i.e. when the wavelength is much larger than the black hole Schwarzschild radius. We apply it to triple systems, with a binary of stellar mass objects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-11 Martin Pijnenburg , Giulia Cusin , Cyril Pitrou , Jean-Philippe Uzan

The laws of geometric optics and their corrections are derived for scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational waves propagating in generic curved spacetimes. Local peeling-type results are obtained, where different components of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-08 Abraham I. Harte

Next-generation GW detectors will produce a high rate of temporally overlapping signals from unrelated compact binary coalescences. Such overlaps can bias parameter estimation (PE) and mimic signatures of other physical effects, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Nishkal Rao , Anuj Mishra , Apratim Ganguly , Anupreeta More

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

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 waves propagate along null geodesics like light rays in the geometrical optics approximation, and they may have a chance to suffer from gravitational lensing by intervening objects, as is the case for electromagnetic waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-12 Yousuke Itoh , Toshifumi Futamase , Makoto Hattori