MULTIPLE IMAGING BY GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

DOI10.1142/S0218271898000267MaRDI QIDQ4939683zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Valerio Faraoni

Publication date 27 February 2000

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9707236

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational wavesmultiple imagingnonstationary spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: Gravitational waves act like lenses for the light propagating through them. This phenomenon is described using the vector formalism employed for ordinary gravitational lenses, which was proved to be applicable also to a non-stationary spacetime, with the appropriate modifications. In order to have multiple imaging, an approximate condition analogous to that for ordinary gravitational lenses must be satisfied. Certain astrophysical sources of gravitational waves satisfy this condition, while the gravitational wave background, on average, does not. Multiple imaging by gravitational waves is, in principle, possible, but the probability of observing such a phenomenon is extremely low.

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