How does the Earth's rotation affect predictions of gravitational wave strong lensing rates?

Abstract

The next generation of ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, e.g. the Einstein Telescope, is expected to observe a significant number of strongly lensed GW events as predicted in many previous papers. However, all these works ignored the impact of the Earth's rotation on this prediction. Multiple lensed images arrive at the Earth at different time, thus the ground-based detector has different responses to the lensed images due to different orientations of the detector relative to the GW source direction. Therefore the amplitudes of the GW signal from different images are modulated appropriately, in addition to the lensing magnification. In order to assess this effect, we performed Monte Carlo simulations to calculate the event rate of lensed GW signals. Our conclusion is that the Earth's rotation has a non-negligible impact on the event rate of lensed GW image. The updated event rates decrease by factors of $\sim 40\%,\sim 20\%,\sim 10\%$, for NS-NS, BH-NS, BH-BH systems respectively.

9 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; Accepted by ApJ

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