New Consistency Relations between Averages and Variances of Weakly Lensed Signals of Gravitational Waves
arXiv:2309.04114 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.109.083505
Abstract
The lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) occurs when GWs experience local gravitational potential. In the weak lensing regime, it has been reported that a simple consistency relation holds between the variances of the magnification and phase modulation. In this paper, we present two additional consistency relations between the averages and variances of the weakly lensed GW signals in wave optics. We demonstrate that these consistency relations are derived as the weak lensing limit of the full-order relations for the averages of the amplification factor and its absolute square. These full-order relations appear to originate from energy conservation and the Shapiro time delay, and they are demonstrated to hold irrespective of the matter distribution.
arXiv comment11 pages, 1 figure, accepted version
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