PIRSA:16050001

Gravitational Lensing of the Transient Sky

Dai, L. (2016). Gravitational Lensing of the Transient Sky. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/16050001

Dai, Liang. Gravitational Lensing of the Transient Sky. Perimeter Institute, May. 10, 2016, https://pirsa.org/16050001 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:16050001,
            doi = {10.48660/16050001},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/16050001},
            author = {Dai, Liang},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Gravitational Lensing of the Transient Sky},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2016},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:16050001 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Liang Dai University of California, Berkeley

DOI 10.48660/16050001
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Gravitational lensing by matter clumps can magnify various transient bursts in the sky, making them more detectable from the high redshift Universe. For one example, chirping gravitational waves from stellar-mass black hole binary mergers, as first detected by LIGO recently, can appear louder due to intervening galaxies. In the absence of electromagnetic counterpart, as I will discuss, lensing magnification can bias the determination of binary mass and redshift, which needs to be corrected for when testing source evolution and formation models through event statistics. As another example, compact dark matter of masses 10-100 solar masses can gravitationally lens fast radio bursts, creating double-peaked time-domain signature with a resolvable time delay on the order of milliseconds. I discuss that forthcoming fast radio burst surveys can directly probing this interesting mass range for compact dark matter by detecting 10^4 bursts per year.