What is the nature of GW230529? An exploration of the gravitational lensing hypothesis

arXiv:2409.07298 · gr-qc, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2024-09-11 · Read on arXiv

gr-qc, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2024-09-11

Updated: 2024-09-17

Comments: 15 pages, 11 figures

Journal ref: Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 537, 1001 (2025)

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf049

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Microlensing — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Gravitational Lensing — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Academia Sinica — 1× in this paper
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Equation of State (EoS) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Hong Kong Research Grants Council — 1× in this paper
• Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics — 1× in this paper
• Science and Technology Facilities Council — 1× in this paper
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Searching for gravitational wave optical counterparts with the Zwicky Transient Facility: summary of O4a
• Overview of KAGRA: Detector design and construction history
• Everything everywhere all at once: A detailed study of GW230529
• The Impact of Astrophysical Priors on Parameter Inference for GW230529
• On the waveforms of gravitationally lensed gravitational waves
• Search for Lensed Gravitational Waves Including Morse Phase Information: An Intriguing Candidate in O2
• Performance of the low-latency GstLAL inspiral search towards LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA's fourth observing run
• Using Equation of State Constraints to Classify Low-Mass Compact Binary Mergers
• Identifying strongly lensed gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers
• Inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity within the effective-one-body formalism
• Probe and Prejudice: Classification of compact objects and model comparison using EOS knowledge
• Observational Signatures of Highly Magnified Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescence
• SLICK: Strong Lensing Identification of Candidates Kindred in gravitational wave data
• Relative binning for complete gravitational-wave parameter estimation with higher-order modes and precession, and applications to lensing and third-generation detectors
• Galaxy lens reconstruction based on strongly lensed gravitational waves: similarity transformation degeneracy and mass-sheet degeneracy
• Constraining possible $\gamma$-ray burst emission from GW230529 using Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM
• Tests of General Relativity with GW230529: a neutron star merging with a lower mass-gap compact object
• Inferring properties of dark galactic halos using strongly lensed gravitational waves
• On the detection and precise localisation of merging black holes events through strong gravitational lensing
• Robust parameter estimation within minutes on gravitational wave signals from binary neutron star inspirals

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