Gravitational Lens Time Delays and Gravitational Waves

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1994-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9405015v3

Phys.Rev.D50:4895-4902,1994

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

22 pages in REVTEX 3.0 (previous versions may not have TeXed due to Unix mailer problems)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.50.4895

Using Fermat's principle, we analyze the effects of very long wavelength gravitational waves upon the images of a gravitationally lensed quasar. We show that the lens equation in the presence of gravity waves is equivalent to that of a lens with different alignment between source, deflector, and observer in the absence of gravity waves. Contrary to a recent claim, we conclude that measurements of time delays in gravitational lenses cannot serve as a method to detect or constrain a stochastic background of gravitational waves of cosmological wavelengths, because the wave-induced time delay is observationally indistinguishable from an intrinsic time delay due to the lens geometry.

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