Neutron Star as Mirror for Gravitational Waves [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04201


Gravitational Wave (GW) has become one of the most active fields in physics and astronomy since the first direct detection of GW event in 2015. As is well known, multiple images of GW events are possible through the gravitational lenses. Here, we propose a novel imaging mechanism for GW events different from the gravitational lens. In this work, we predict that there are two types of GW mirror phenomena caused by the neutron star located in Milky Way or the same host galaxy of GW source, which might be detected within a life period of man (namely the time delay $\Delta t$ can be a few years to a few tens of years). It is expected to witness this predicted GW mirror phenomenon in the near future. In the long term, the observations of this novel GW mirror phenomenon might help us to find the numerous neutron stars unseen by other means, and learn more about the complicated internal structures of neutron stars, as well as their equation of state.

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H. Wei, D. Qiang, Z. Yu, et. al.
Tue, 12 Nov 19
69/84

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, revtex4.1