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We report a significant detection of weak, tangential distortion of the images of cosmologically distant, faint galaxies due to gravitational lensing by foreground galaxies. A mean image polarisation of $<p>=0.011\pm 0.006$ is measured for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Tereasa Brainerd , Roger Blandford , Ian Smail

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

We investigate the novel features of gravitational wave solutions in $f(R)$ gravity under proper gauge considerations in the shifted Ricci scalar background curvature ($R^{1+\epsilon}$). The solution is further explored to study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-27 Vipin Kumar Sharma , Sreekanth Harikumar , Margherita Grespan , Marek Biesiada , Murli Manohar Verma

Astrophysical black holes are likely to be surrounded by various forms of matter in the form of disks or halos. While a number of studies have examined the impact of an environment on the lensing of light or gravitational waves from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Gerasimos Kouniatalis , Arthur G. Suvorov , Kyriakos Destounis

The massive Galactic black hole and the stars around it are a unique laboratory for studying how relaxation processes lead to close interactions of stars and compact remnants with the central massive black hole, in particular those leading…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tal Alexander

A stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) would gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons. We find that the lensing due to gravitational waves(GW) is more efficient as compared to lensing due to scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Aditya Rotti , Tarun Souradeep

Gravitational waves, although generally associated with extremely microscopic effects, can displace by hundreds of kilometers the pulsar interstellar scintillation patterns that bathe the Earth. The combination of the pulsar and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Redouane Fakir

The gravitational microlensing as a unique astrophysical tool can be used for studying the atmosphere of stars thousands of parsec far from us. This capability results from the bending of light rays in the gravitational field of a lens…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Sedighe Sajadian , Sohrab Rahvar

The current gravitational-wave localization methods rely mainly on sources with electromagnetic counterparts. Unfortunately, a binary black hole does not emit light. Due to this, it is generally not possible to localize these objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Otto A. Hannuksela , Thomas E. Collett , Mesut Çalışkan , Tjonnie G. F. Li

The distortion of the spacetime structure in the surroundings of black holes affects the trajectories of light rays. As a consequence, black holes can act as gravitational lenses. Observations of type Ia supernovas, show that our Universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-14 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra

Gravitational-wave (GW) astrophysics is a rapidly expanding field, with plans to enhance the global ground-based observatory network through the addition of larger, more sensitive observatories: Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-03 Sarah E. Gossan , Evan D. Hall , Samaya M. Nissanke

In this work we study gravitational lensing of neutrinos by Schwarzschild black holes. In particular, we analyze the case of a neutrino transient source associated with a gamma-ray burst lensed by a supermassive black hole located at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Gustavo E. Romero

We study the effect of a stochastic background of gravitational waves on the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. It has been shown that matter density inhomogeneities produce a smoothing of the acoustic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Silvia Mollerach

We consider the possible effects of gravitational lensing by globular clusters on gravitational waves from asymmetric neutron stars in our galaxy. In the lensing of gravitational waves, the long wavelength, compared with the usual case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Andrew J. Moylan , David E. McClelland , Susan M. Scott , Antony C. Searle , G. V. Bicknell

A gravitational wave passing through a pulsar will lead to a variation in the moment of inertia of the pulsar affecting its rotation. This will affect the extremely accurately measured spin rate of the pulsar as well as its pulse profile…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-17 Arpan Das , Shreyansh S. Dave , Oindrila Ganguly , Ajit M. Srivastava

We investigate the propagation of gravitational waves on a black hole background within the low energy effective field theory of gravity, where effects from heavy fields are captured by higher dimensional curvature operators. Depending on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Claudia de Rham , Jérémie Francfort , Jun Zhang

Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries are known to be an excellent absolute distance indicator, yet it is unclear whether electromagnetic counterparts of these events are securely identified for measuring their redshifts,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Masamune Oguri

This article reviews current efforts and plans for gravitational-wave detection, the gravitational-wave sources that might be detected, and the information that the detectors might extract from the observed waves. Special attention is paid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kip S. Thorne

Gravitational Wave Astronomy is becoming a reality as Earth-based interferometric gravitational-wave detectors reach the design sensitivities and move towards advanced configurations that may lead to gravitational-wave detections in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-05 Carlos F. Sopuerta

The possibility of forming gravitational-wave sources with high center-of-mass (c.m.) velocities in the vicinity of supermassive black holes requires us to develop a method of deriving the waveform in the observer's frame. Here we show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-07 Han Yan , Xian Chen , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela