A product template bank to search for compact binary coalescences microlensed by isolated point mass lenses

arXiv:2607.20661 · gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-07-22 · Read on arXiv

Sudhir Gholap, Sanjeev V. Dhurandhar, Shasvath J. Kapadia

gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-07-22

Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures

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

Terminology

• Microlensing — 25× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gravitational Lensing — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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