Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-06-05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
3 pages, 1 figure, to be published in proceedings of 20th Texas Symposium, requires aipproc.sty (included)
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1419664
It is accepted that quasars are powered by supermassive black holes (SMBH) with masses in the range 10^6 - 10^9 solar masses in their cores. Occasionally, compact stars can plunge into SMBH. In addition, there may be a number of such compact objects circling the central SMBH in any given quasar. Both of these processes are known to emit gravitational waves. LISA has the right sensitivity to detect these waves. We show that gravitational lenses amplify the amplitudes of these gravitational waves just as they amplify the observed light of quasars. Given the geometry of the lensing configuration, this amplification can be as large as a factor of 2 to 10, allowing the waves to be above the detection threshold of LISA. We also show that waves from lensed quasars arrive with time delays which are much larger than the coherence time of the gravitational waves, making interference effects negligible. Thus, a simple geometrical optics application leads to the lensing theory of gravitational waves. In this context, we analyze and show in this preliminary analysis that there is an enhancement of the amplitudes of gravitational radiation coming from observed lensed quasars.
Benacquista Mathew
Wickramasinghe T.
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