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Oct 2026
Self-lensing of gravitational waves from binary extreme-mass-ratio inspirals: Extended caustics and paired flashes
We investigate strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves from a compact source orbiting a Kerr black hole, motivated by self-lensing in binary extreme-mass-ratio inspirals. In the geometric-optics limit, we construct a point-to-point lens map from null-geodesic integrals and use the Jacobi map to compute the...
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