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Gravitational grating

Rahvar, S ; Sharif University of Technology | 2018

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1369
  3. Publisher: Oxford University Press , 2018
  4. Abstract:
  5. In this work, we study the interaction of the electromagnetic wave (EW) from a distant quasar with the gravitational wave (GW) sourced by the binary stars.While in the regime of geometric optics the light bending due to this interaction is negligible, we show that the phase shifting on the wavefront of an EW can produce the diffraction pattern on the observer plane. The diffraction of the light (with the wavelength of λe) by the gravitational wave playing the role of gravitational grating (with the wavelength of λg) has the diffraction angle of Δβ ~ λe/λg. The relative motion of the observer, the source of gravitational wave, and the quasar results in a relative motion of the observer through the interference pattern on the observer plane. The consequence of this fringe crossing is the modulation in the light curve of a quasar with the period of few hours in the microwave wavelength. The optical depth for the observation of this phenomenon for a quasar with the multiple images strongly lensed by a galaxy where the light trajectory of some of the images crosses the lensing galaxy is τ ≃ 0.2. By shifting the time delay of the light curves of the multiple images in a strong-lensed quasar and removing the intrinsic variations of a quasar, our desired signals as a new method for detection of GWs, can be detected. © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society
  6. Keywords:
  7. Gravitational lensing ; Gravitational waves
  8. Source: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ; Volume 479, Issue 1 , 2018 , Pages 406-414 ; 00358711 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/479/1/406/5003397