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Stellar lightcurves from edge-on double white dwarf systems(DWDs) have periodic lensing/eclipsing signals at times of alignment between two components as seen by the observer. Here, we study the characterization and detection of these…

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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

We propose a new model-independent measurement strategy for the propagation speed of gravitational waves (GWs) based on strongly lensed GWs and their electromagnetic (EM) counterparts. This can be done in two ways: by comparing arrival…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-05 Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Marek Biesiada , Aleksandra Piorkowska-Kurpas , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through the universe can be microlensed by stellar and intermediate-mass objects. Lensing induces frequency-dependent amplification of GWs, which can be computed using \texttt{GLoW}, an accurate code…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Marienza Caldarola , Srashti Goyal , Nihar Gupte , Stephen R. Green , Miguel Zumalacárregui

The Lunar Gravitational Wave Antenna (LGWA) is a proposed gravitational-wave detector that will observe in the decihertz (dHz) frequency region. In this band, binary white dwarf systems are expected to merge, emitting gravitational waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Giovanni Benetti , Marica Branchesi , Jan Harms , Jean-Pierre Zendri

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

The discovery of the most compact detached white dwarf (WD) binary SDSS J065133.33+284423.3 has been discussed in terms of probing the tidal effects in white dwarfs. This system is also a verification source for the space-based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Sweta Shah , Gijs Nelemans

Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in the universe. Here we revisit the wave-optics effects induced by dark matter (DM) halos on the GW signals of merging massive black hole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Zucheng Gao , Xian Chen , Yi-Ming Hu , Jian-Dong Zhang , Shunjia Huang

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

Assessing the probability that two or more gravitational waves (GWs) are lensed images of the same source requires an understanding of the image properties, including their relative phase shifts in strong lensing (SL). For non-precessing,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Jose María Ezquiaga , Daniel E. Holz , Wayne Hu , Macarena Lagos , Robert M. Wald

Compact Galactic binaries where at least one member is a white dwarf or neutron star constitute the majority of individually detectable sources for future low-frequency space-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories; they also form an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Samaya Nissanke , Michele Vallisneri , Gijs Nelemans , Thomas A. Prince

Gravitational waves (GW) from chirping binary black holes (BBHs) provide unique opportunities to test general relativity (GR) in the strong-field regime. However, testing GR can be challenging when incomplete physical modeling of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-09 Anuj Mishra , N. V. Krishnendu , Apratim Ganguly

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

Future gravitational wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (\textit{LISA}), will be able to resolve a significant number of the ultra compact stellar-mass binaries in our own Galaxy and its neighborhood. These will…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Maria Georgousi , Nikolaos Karnesis , Valeriya Korol , Mauro Pieroni , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Gravitational waves have been shown to provide new constraints on gravitational theories beyond general relativity (GR), especially in the strong field regime. Gravitational wave signals from galactic double white dwarfs, expected to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Shu Yan Lau , Kent Yagi , Phil Arras

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

Galactic double white dwarf (DWD) binaries are among the guaranteed sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), an upcoming space-based gravitational wave (GW) detector. Most DWDs in the LISA band are far from merging and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Reza Ebadi , Vladimir Strokov , Erwin H. Tanin , Emanuele Berti , Ronald L. Walsworth

Lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) due to intervening massive astrophysical systems between the source and the observer is an inevitable consequence of the general theory of relativity, which can produce multiple GW events with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Aniruddha Chakraborty , Suvodip Mukherjee

Since the first gravitational wave (GW) event from binary black hole (BBH) was detected by LIGO-Virgo, GWs have become a useful probe on astrophysics and cosmology. If compact dark matter (DM) objects e.g. primordial black holes, contribute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-29 Huan Zhou , Zhengxiang Li , Kai Liao , Zhiqi Huang

Gravitational waves (GW), as light, are gravitationally lensed by intervening matter, deflecting their trajectories, delaying their arrival and occasionally producing multiple images. In theories beyond general relativity (GR), new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Jose María Ezquiaga , Miguel Zumalacárregui