The diffraction-lensing interpretation of GW231123 with astrophysical priors

arXiv:2607.21834 · astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-07-23 · Read on arXiv

Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Digvijay Wadekar, Matias Zaldarriaga, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Javier Roulet, Ajit Kumar Mehta

astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-07-23

Comments: 30 pages, 13 figures. Data and code available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21515053

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

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