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No strong lensing of gravitational waves appears in O1–O4a binary black hole data; the lensing fraction is below 1.4 percent.

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load-bearing objection Clean multi-catalog null with a usable 1.4% upper limit and new population metrics; prior-dependent but honest and well-supported. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2607.08466 v1 pith:NCGOFKE6 submitted 2026-07-09 gr-qc

Search for strong lensing of gravitational waves in the binary black hole events from O1-O4a

Ankur Barsode , Koustav N. Maity , Parameswaran Ajith This is my paper
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keywords gravitational-wave lensingbinary black holesstrong lensingBayes factorPosterior Overlap 2.0O1-O4alensing fraction
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A fraction of the binary black hole mergers now seen by LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA should be strongly lensed by intervening galaxies or clusters, producing multiple delayed copies of the same waveform. This paper searches every pair among 207 events from the official LVK catalog plus external IAS and OGC catalogs, using a fast Bayesian statistic (Posterior Overlap 2.0) that compares the full posteriors of each pair. Realistic injections into real detector noise set the false-alarm and detection rates. No pair reaches even a 0.6 percent probability of being lensed, so the authors place a 90 percent upper limit of 1.4 percent on the fraction of strongly lensed events. The same machinery forecasts that a three-sigma detection becomes likely only by the fifth observing run. The result both tightens the present null and shows why catalogs that recover higher-mass systems must be included in future searches.

Core claim

After ranking all 21 321 pairs of binary black hole events from O1 through O4a with Posterior Overlap 2.0, every pair has a probability of being strongly lensed below 0.6 percent; the non-detection therefore implies a 90 percent upper bound of 1.4 percent on the strongly lensed fraction of the catalog.

What carries the argument

Posterior Overlap 2.0 rewrites the strong-lensing Bayes factor as a population-weighted inner product of the two single-event posteriors, making a near-optimal search computationally cheap enough for full background and foreground simulations and for the new per-pair and catalog-purity metrics.

Load-bearing premise

The claimed upper limit and the detection forecasts rest on an optimistic prior that places many high-redshift mergers behind singular isothermal ellipsoid lenses of all halo masses; a lower true lensing rate would loosen both numbers.

What would settle it

A future pair whose Posterior Overlap 2.0 Bayes factor places it well above the background distribution measured in real noise, yielding a false-positive probability below 10^{-6} or a lensing probability greater than 50 percent under the same prior.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper searches for strongly lensed binary black hole pairs among 207 events from LVK, IAS, and OGC catalogs spanning O1–O4a, using the near-optimal Posterior Overlap 2.0 Bayes factor (Eq. 2.4) on all 21 321 pairs. Realistic unlensed-background and lensed-foreground injections in real detector noise are used to define false-positive probability, false-dismissal probability, a per-pair lensing probability p_L, and a catalog purity c_L. No pair reaches p_L > 0.6% or posterior odds O_L/U ≳ 1; the authors therefore report a null result and, via a mixture-model likelihood (Eq. 3.2), a 90% upper bound of 1.4% on the strong-lensing fraction. They also re-evaluate previously published candidate pairs (all ranked ≥15 here) and forecast 3σ detection probabilities of ~20%, 23%, and 67% by the ends of O4, IR1, and O5 under an optimistic prior.

Significance. A uniform, single-stage Bayesian search over the full multi-catalog O1–O4a BBH sample, calibrated with real-noise injections, is a clear methodological advance over previous two-stage LVK analyses that lacked large background ensembles and omitted inter-run and non-LVK pairs. The new metrics p_L and c_L give a transparent, population-level interpretation of non-detection that is useful for downstream cosmology and dark-matter studies. The explicit multi-catalog result (five of the top nine pairs involve IAS events) and the quantitative forecasts are of immediate community interest. The central null claim and 1.4% bound are internally consistent with the simulations presented; the work is therefore a solid contribution if the modeling caveats are stated with the same clarity in the abstract and conclusions.

major comments (2)
  1. Sec. 2.1 and Appendix B: the main 90% bound u < 1.4% (Fig. 3) and the p_L values in Table 1 are obtained under a single, deliberately optimistic prior (Dominik high-z merger rate + SIE for all 10^8–10^15 M_⊙ halos). Appendix D varies the prior only for the forecasts. Because the numerical value of the bound and the ranking of high-mass pairs scale directly with this choice, the main-text constraint should also be shown for at least one more conservative prior (e.g., the Madau–Dickinson + galaxy-only model already used in App. D) so that readers can judge prior dependence without consulting the appendix.
  2. Sec. 4 and Appendix A: the combined LVK+IAS+OGC sample does not share a single selection function, yet the analysis prior is generated with a uniform network-optimal S/N > 8 cut. The authors correctly flag a possible bias but do not quantify its effect on either the background distribution of B_L/U or the mixture-model posterior for u. A short estimate—e.g., reweighting or re-running a subset of the background under pipeline-specific FAR/p_astro cuts—would show whether the 1.4% bound or the top-pair ranking is materially affected; without it the quantitative claim remains slightly under-supported.
minor comments (6)
  1. Appendix A: for OGC events the coalescence-phase and polarization posteriors are replaced by uniforms, which can suppress B_L/U by up to a factor ~11. The text states that no OGC pair reaches the top five even after a hypothetical boost; a one-sentence quantitative check (maximum observed B_L/U among OGC-involving pairs after the factor-11 rescaling) would make this claim fully transparent.
  2. Fig. 2: the background curve is the average number of unlensed pairs above threshold; adding a shaded 1σ band from the finite background ensemble would help the reader assess how significant the absence of outliers really is.
  3. Table 1 / Table 2: the asterisk notation for IAS events is clear in the caption of Table 1 but is not repeated for Table 2; a uniform convention would avoid confusion.
  4. Eq. (2.9) and surrounding text: p_L is introduced as analogous to p_astro; a brief remark that it still conditions on the assumed prior odds P_L/U (and therefore on u) would prevent misreading it as a fully prior-independent probability.
  5. Sec. 3.2: the chronological trend toward heavier candidate pairs is interesting; a short quantitative statement of how much of the shift is driven by the inclusion of the population prior versus improved detector sensitivity would strengthen the discussion.
  6. References: a few arXiv-only entries (e.g., Barsode 2026, Harshe et al. 2026) will need journal citations or stable DOIs before final publication if available.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged

Minor self-citations supply the PO2.0 pipeline and forecast method, but the null result, p_L bounds, and 1.4% upper limit are obtained by independent application to catalog posteriors plus real-noise injections; no claim reduces to its inputs by construction.

specific steps
  1. self citation load bearing [Sec. 1 (Introduction) and Sec. 2 (Methodology)]
    "This is all made possible due to the recently developed strong-lensing analysis pipeline PosteriorOverlap 2.0(PO2.0), which has been shown to be near optimal and computationally inexpensive (Barsode et al. 2025, 2026; Barsode 2026)."

    The computational engine that converts pairs of published posteriors into B_L/U is justified almost exclusively by the authors’ own preceding papers. The present work does supply independent real-noise validation (App. C), so the dependence is not total, yet the central premise that PO2.0 is near-optimal rests on that self-citation chain.

full rationale

The paper’s central results (no pair with p_L > 0.6%, 90% upper bound u < 1.4% via the mixture likelihood Eq. 3.2, and the ranked candidates in Tables 1–2) are produced by re-weighting published single-event posteriors under an explicitly stated astrophysical prior, then comparing the resulting B_L/U values against background and foreground distributions generated from independent injections into real O1–O4a noise (App. C). The prior itself is taken from external literature (GWTC-4, Dominik et al. 2013, Behroozi et al. 2013, Collett 2015) and is deliberately labelled “optimistic”; it is not fitted to the observed ranking. The only self-citations that carry methodological weight are those introducing Posterior Overlap 2.0 and the forecasting procedure; both are validated inside this work by ROC curves, B–B consistency plots, and multi-prior forecasts (Fig. 4, App. D). No uniqueness theorem, ansatz, or fitted parameter is smuggled in and then re-presented as a prediction. Consequently the circularity is limited to ordinary method inheritance and does not force the scientific claim.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

3 free parameters · 4 axioms · 2 invented entities

The central null result and upper limit rest on standard GR geometric-optics lensing, published PE samples, and an explicitly optimistic astrophysical prior whose free choices (merger-rate model, SIE for all halo masses, S/N threshold) are stated and varied in the forecast. No new physical entities are introduced; the invented quantities are purely statistical (p_L, catalog purity).

free parameters (3)
  • high-redshift merger-rate model = Dominik isolated-binary peak
    Dominik et al. (2013) isolated-binary synthesis is chosen to peak at high z, deliberately raising the lensing fraction; the forecast later varies this choice by a factor ~1.6.
  • SIE lens model for all halos 10^8–10^15 M_⊙ = SIE for full mass range
    All dark-matter halos, including cluster-scale, are modeled as singular isothermal ellipsoids rather than NFW, increasing both optical depth and long time-delay probability.
  • network optimal S/N detection threshold = 8
    Detectability cut set at S/N > 8 (with a safety threshold ~6 for importance sampling); standard but still a free analysis choice that enters the prior and the injection campaign.
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption Geometric-optics lensing of GWs by SIE lenses produces images related by relative magnification, time delay and Morse phase that can be absorbed into luminosity distance, arrival time and coalescence phase.
    Stated in Sec. 2 and Eq. (2.1)–(2.2); standard in the GW-lensing literature.
  • domain assumption Subdominant GW modes are negligible at current sensitivities, so Morse phase is fully absorbed into coalescence-phase shift.
    Explicitly assumed after Eq. (2.4); supported by cited earlier work but still an approximation.
  • domain assumption Noise is uncorrelated between well-separated events, allowing the Bayes factor to factor into a re-weighted posterior overlap.
    Required for the PO2.0 reformulation (Eq. 2.4).
  • domain assumption Prior odds of a lensed pair in a catalog of N events are ≈ 2u/(N−1).
    Used to convert Bayes factors into posterior odds and p_L (Eq. 2.6, 2.9); taken from Hannuksela et al. (2025).
invented entities (2)
  • probability of lensing p_L no independent evidence
    purpose: Convert a pair’s Bayes factor into a frequentist-calibrated probability that the pair is lensed, analogous to p_astro.
    Defined in Eq. (2.9) from the ratio of foreground and background densities; purely statistical construct.
  • catalog purity c_L no independent evidence
    purpose: Quantify the expected fraction of true lensed pairs among all pairs above a given Bayes-factor threshold.
    Defined in Eq. (2.10); population-level counterpart to p_L.

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A small fraction of the gravitational waves (GWs) currently observable by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) may be strongly lensed by intervening galaxies and galaxy clusters, potentially producing multiple copies of the same signal. We search for lensed pairs of binary black hole signals detected during the O1-O4a observing runs. We include the events identified by the LVK Collaboration, as well as additional events found by external groups (IAS and OGC). Our search is based on Posterior Overlap 2.0, a fast and efficient Bayesian model-selection pipeline to identify lensed candidates. The search is supplemented by realistic background and foreground simulations to characterize the robustness and detection efficiency of the pipeline, as well as the statistical significance of lensed candidates. We define new metrics to assess the statistical significance of lensing both at the individual and population levels. Our work addresses some of the limitations of previous searches. With the probability of lensing $<0.6\%$ for all pairs, we find no evidence for strong lensing in the data and consequently place a $90\%$ upper bound on the lensing fraction of $1.4\%$. With five out of the top nine lensed candidate pairs being from non-LVK catalogs, we also highlight the importance of searching among events reported by multiple GW catalogs. We forecast that the probabilities of making a $3\sigma$ detection in the fourth (O4), intermediate (IR1), and fifth (O5) observing runs are $\sim 20\%,\, 23\%$, and $67\%$, respectively.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.08466 by Ankur Barsode, Koustav N. Maity, Parameswaran Ajith.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Left: The prior distributions P(log10 m1z , log10 dL,1 | H) of the detector frame primary mass and the apparent luminosity distance of the first image (or the only image in case of unlensed) under the lensed (H = HL) and unlensed (H = HU) hypotheses. These are for detectable BBHs. The top and side panels show their marginalized distributions. These distributions are marginalized over all other parameters. … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The number of pairs above log10 B L U obtained from GW events detected in O1-O4a. Also shown is the background distribution obtained from pairs of unlensed signals injected in real detector noise. Our top pair, as well as several interesting pairs identified in previous searches (if they cross B L U > 1 in our search), are annotated [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Constraints on the strong lensing fraction obtained using the non-observation in all events detected in O1-O4a. The orange dotted curve shows the constraints obtained using Poisson statistics, assuming that all 207 events are unlensed with complete certainty, while blue and cyan curves consistently account for the very small, but non-zero probability that some of the pairs may be lensed. This is essentiall… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The probability of finding at least one strongly lensed pair of GWs in the data at the end of various observing run segments. Results are shown for different thresholds on the statistical signifi￾cance, with shaded regions indicating uncertainties due to those in our prior knowledge (see Appendix D for details). bias would require us to consider selection effects beyond the simple signal-to-noise ratio (S/… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The approximate probability Pdet(m1z ,zs) that a BBH merger with source frame primary mass m1s at a redshift zs will be detectable in O1-O4a observing runs. These are marginalized over the remaining BBH parameters, assuming they are distributed according to the GWTC-4 population. The bottom right panel shows the same averaged over all detector on-times during O1-O4a. Pdet is taken to be the (reversed) cumu… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Left: The lensing-rate-included ROC curves for PO2.0 expressed in terms of the probability of making a lensing detection with a significance of at least σcat. Right: The B-B plot for PO2.0, showing that the B L U closely follows the ratio of its distributions under the lensed and unlensed hypotheses. and further remove 32-second chunks around observed GWs. We then download randomly chosen, unique, 128-seco… view at source ↗

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