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- Title
Lensing Magnification Seen by Gravitational Wave Detectors.
- Authors
Cusin, Giulia; Durrer, Ruth; Dvorkin, Irina
- Abstract
In this paper, we studied the gravitational lensing of gravitational wave events. The probability that an observed gravitational wave source has been (de-)amplified by a given amount is a detector-dependent quantity which depends on different ingredients: the lens distribution, the underlying distribution of sources and the detector sensitivity. The main objective of the present work was to introduce a semi-analytic approach to study the distribution of the magnification of a given source population observed with a given detector. The advantage of this approach is that each ingredient can be individually varied and tested. We computed the expected magnification as both a function of redshift and of the observedsource luminosity distance, which is the only quantity one can access via observation in the absence of an electromagnetic counterpart. As a case study, we then focus on the LIGO/Virgo network and on strong lensing ( μ > 1 ).
- Subjects
GRAVITATIONAL wave detectors; GRAVITATIONAL lenses; REDSHIFT; STELLAR luminosity function; ELECTROMAGNETISM
- Publication
Universe (2218-1997), 2022, Vol 8, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
2218-1997
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/universe8010019