"Searching for gravitationally lensed gravitational waves"
P. Ajith
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

24/4/2026 11:00
Sala riunioni, Dipartimento di Fisica

LIGO and Virgo have detected over three hundred gravitational-wave (GW) signals from coalescing compact binaries so far. In the next few years, thousands of such observations are expected. A small fraction of these GWs will be gravitationally lensed by intervening objects such as galaxies, clusters and compact objects. I will talk about the ongoing searches for gravitationally lensed GWs and the prospects of detecting such signals. At the end, I will also discuss some of the potential new probes of the cosmos such observations will enable.

Contact: Edoardo Milotti