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most citedAn Improved GPU-Based Ray-Shooting Code For Gravitational Microlensing

21 citations · 97 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.GA2025

The Magnified Waltz: Simulating Light Curves of Binary Stars Passing through Micro-Caustics in Strong Lensing Galaxy Clusters

Wenwen Zheng, Xiaoting Fu, Yang Chen +5

Individual stars located near the caustics of galaxy clusters can undergo extreme magnification when crossing micro-caustics, rendering them observable even at cosmological distanc…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 10 cited

Wave effect of gravitational waves intersected with a microlens field II: an adaptive hierarchical tree algorithm and population study

Xikai Shan, Guoliang Li, Xuechun Chen +3

The gravitational lensing wave effect generated by a microlensing field embedded in a lens galaxy is an inevitable phenomenon in strong lensed gravitational waves (SLGWs). This eff…

astro-ph.HE2024

Plasma lensing interpretation of FRB 20201124A bursts at the end of September 2021

Xuechun Chen, Bin Hu, Pei Wang +3

When the radio photons propagate through a non-uniform electron density volume, the plasma lensing effect can induce an extreme magnification to the observed flux at certain freque…

astro-ph.GA2023

Theoretical Analysis of Random Scattering Induced by Microlensing

Wenwen Zheng, Hou-Zun Chen, Xuechun Chen +1

Theoretical investigations into the deflection angle caused by microlenses offer a direct path to uncovering principles of the cosmological microlensing effect. This work specifica…

astro-ph.GA2023

Simulation Of The Microlensing Effect Near The Critical Curve Of The Galaxy Cluster

Xuliu Yang, Xuechun Chen, Wenwen Zheng +1

In the smooth mass distribution model, the critical curve represents a line with magnification divergence on the image plane in a strong gravitational lensing system. Considering t…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 12 cited

Microlensing bias on the detection of strong lensing gravitational wave

Xikai Shan, Xuechun Chen, Bin Hu +1

Identifying strong lensing gravitational wave (SLGW) events is of utmost importance in astrophysics as we approach the historic first detection of SLGW amidst the growing number of…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 9 cited

An interference-based method for the detection of strongly lensed gravitational waves

Xikai Shan, Bin Hu, Xuechun Chen +1

The strongly lensed gravitational wave (SLGW) is a promising transient phenomenon. However, the long-wave nature of gravitational waves poses a significant challenge in identificat…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 20 cited

Wave effect of gravitational waves intersected with a microlens field: a new algorithm and supplementary study

Xikai Shan, Guoliang Li, Xuechun Chen +2

The increase in gravitational wave (GW) events has allowed receiving strong lensing image pairs of GWs. However, the wave effect (diffraction and interference) due to the microlens…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 21 cited

An Improved GPU-Based Ray-Shooting Code For Gravitational Microlensing

Wenwen Zheng, Xuechun Chen, Guoliang Li +1

We present an improved inverse ray-shooting code based on GPUs for generating microlensing magnification maps. In addition to introducing GPUs for acceleration, we put the efforts…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

FRBs Lensed by Point Masses II. The multi-peaked FRBs from the point view of microlensing

Xuechun Chen, Yiping Shu, Guoliang Li +1

The microlensing effect has developed into a powerful technique for a diverse range of applications including exoplanet discoveries, structure of the Milky Way, constraints on MAss…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 12 cited

FRBs Lensed by Point Masses I. Lens Mass Estimation for Doubly Imaged FRBs

Xuechun Chen, Yiping Shu, Wenwen Zheng +1

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transient events with durations on the order of milliseconds. The majority of FRB sources discovered so far have a single peak, with the e…