Strongly lensed transient sources: a review

K Liao, M Biesiada, ZH Zhu - Chinese Physics Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The past decades have witnessed a lot of progress in gravitational lensing with two main
targets: stars and galaxies (with active galactic nuclei). The success is partially attributed to …

Strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves: A review

M Grespan, M Biesiada - Universe, 2023 - mdpi.com
The first successful detection of gravitational waves (GWs) opened up a new window to
study a realm of the most violent phenomena in the universe, such as coalescences of …

Observability of lensing of gravitational waves from massive black hole binaries with LISA

M Çalιşkan, L Ji, R Cotesta, E Berti, M Kamionkowski… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The gravitational waves emitted by massive black hole binaries in the Laser Interferometer
Space Antenna (LISA) band can be lensed. Wave-optics effects in the lensed signal are …

Beyond the detector horizon: Forecasting gravitational-wave strong lensing

ARAC Wierda, E Wempe, OA Hannuksela… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
When gravitational waves pass near massive astrophysical objects, they can be
gravitationally lensed. The lensing can split them into multiple wave fronts, magnify them, or …

Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo network

R Abbott, H Abe, F Acernese, K Ackley… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Gravitational lensing by massive objects along the line of sight to the source causes
distortions of gravitational wave-signals; such distortions may reveal information about …

Lensing or luck? False alarm probabilities for gravitational lensing of gravitational waves

M Çalışkan, JM Ezquiaga, OA Hannuksela, DE Holz - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) has been forecasted to become
detectable in the upcoming LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observing runs. However, definitively …

On the identification of individual gravitational-wave image types of a lensed system using higher-order modes

J Janquart, E Seo, OA Hannuksela… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Similarly to light, gravitational waves can be gravitationally lensed as they propagate near
massive astrophysical objects such as galaxies, stars, or black holes. In recent years …

The return of GOLUM: improving distributed joint parameter estimation for strongly lensed gravitational waves

J Janquart, K Haris, OA Hannuksela… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Owing to the forecasted improved sensitivity of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors,
new research avenues will become accessible. This is the case for gravitational-wave strong …

Exploring the hidden Universe: a novel phenomenological approach for recovering arbitrary gravitational-wave millilensing configurations

A Liu, ICF Wong, SHW Leong, A More… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Invariance transformations in wave-optics lensing: Implications for gravitational-wave astrophysics and cosmology

A Chen, P Cremonese, JM Ezquiaga, D Keitel - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
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 …