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arxiv: 2606.03346 · v1 · pith:M7DDD2RAnew · submitted 2026-06-02 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.CO· astro-ph.GA· astro-ph.HE

Model-Independent Search Discards Faint Lensed-Pairs of Gravitational Wave Events in the Sub-Threshold Candidates of GWTC-4

Aniruddha Chakraborty , Suvodip Mukherjee This is my paper

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No lensed gravitational wave pairs detected in GWTC-4 including sub-threshold events, bounding the rate at 1.5 per year or less.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper conducts a search for gravitationally lensed pairs of gravitational wave events across the full GWTC-4 catalog, which includes both confident detections and fainter sub-threshold candidates. By examining over 11,000 possible pairs with a cross-correlation method, the authors find no pairs that meet the criteria for a lensed signal at high significance in both detectors. This null result provides an upper limit on how often lensing occurs among detected events. A sympathetic reader would care because it constrains the expected frequency of such rare events as more data accumulates from current detectors.

Core claim

The search using the GLANCE cross-correlation technique over the entire GWTC-4 strain data, covering approximately 90 super-events and 800 sub-events, identified four pairs with cross-correlation significance of at least 2 sigma but none reached 3 sigma at both LIGO-Hanford and LIGO-Livingston. This allows the authors to rule out any statistically significant sub-threshold lensed GW events in the catalog, translating to an upper bound on the lensing detection rate of 1.5 per year or less when including sub-threshold candidates.

What carries the argument

GLANCE, a cross-correlation-based technique that identifies potential lensed pairs by measuring similarity between event signals, applied to the full set of event pairs including noise-dominated sub-threshold ones.

If this is right

  • With inclusion of sub-threshold candidates the lensing rate upper bound is 1.5 per year.
  • Future observations with current detectors can still lead to lensed GW detections as more time accumulates.
  • The absence of significant pairs holds even after spectrogram, sky-map, and Bayesian checks on candidate pairs.
  • The total of about 11,000 event pairs searched increases the statistical power for detecting rare lensing.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Future catalogs with higher sensitivity may require adjusted thresholds to maintain low false-negative rates for lensed pairs.
  • The bound implies that lensing probability per event is low enough that thousands of detections are needed for likely observation.
  • Connecting to other searches, this suggests model-independent methods can complement template-based lensing hunts.

Load-bearing premise

The combination of cross-correlation significance thresholds with spectrogram, sky-map overlap, and Bayesian parameter checks is enough to exclude true lensed pairs without missing too many in the noisy sub-threshold data.

What would settle it

Confirmation of a lensed pair through independent analysis or detection of a pair exceeding 3 sigma significance at both detectors in the same dataset would contradict the null result.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.03346 by Aniruddha Chakraborty, Suvodip Mukherjee.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. In this figure we present a schematic diagram for the lensing detection method deployed in this analysis. We first select [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. In this figure, we show the distribution of the cross-correlation SNRs at the H1 detector (left panel) and at the L1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. In this figure, we show the cross-correlation SNR for a cross-correlation timescale of 1/8s. 4 pair of events show up with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: figure 5. We note that all events have 95% CI sky [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. In this figure, we plot the spectrograms of the super-threshold and sub-threshold event pairs in the H1 and L1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. In this figure, we show the 95% credible interval sky-maps of the interesting sky-map pairs, for which the cumulative [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. In this figure we show the time-delay distribution of lensed events coming from point mass lenses and SIS lenses. We also [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. In this figure, we show the most important candidates in the cross-correlation lensing search for the cross-correlation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_7.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) can produce multiple images in the geometric optics limit. These lensed GW images arrive at different times, are amplified by different magnification factors, and are shifted by constant phases. With current understanding, the occurrence of lensed events stands at a few per thousand events, and the number of GW detections is a few hundred with the ground-based detector network. However, with the inclusion of the sub-threshold events, the total number of detections crosses a few thousand. Therefore, a search that includes both types of events yields a higher chance of lensing detection. In this work, we carry out the first model-independent lensing search using a cross-correlation-based technique GLANCE over the entire volume of the GWTC-4 strain data, containing $\sim 90$ super-events $\sim 800$ sub-events forming a total of $\sim 11,000$ event pairs with a higher False Alarm Rate (FAR) event rate allowing to search deep in the noise dominated regime. We further conduct their spectrogram checks to inspect data quality, sky-map overlap of the interesting pairs, and a Bayesian parameter exploration of the sub-event to make a robust lensing detection. Although the search indicated four pairs of potential events with cross-correlation significance $\geq 2\sigma$, none were above $3\sigma$ at both the LIGO-Hanford and LIGO-Livingston detectors. This makes it possible to strongly rule out the presence of any statistically significant sub-threshold lensed GW event in GWTC-4. The null detection translates to an upper bound on the lensing detection rate to be $\leq$ 1.5/yr with inclusion of the sub-threshold event candidates. In the future, with more observation time, the detection of lensed GW can be possible from the current generation of GW detectors.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript reports a model-independent search for gravitationally lensed pairs among the ~90 super-threshold and ~800 sub-threshold events in GWTC-4, forming ~11,000 pairs. The GLANCE cross-correlation method is applied to LIGO strain data, followed by spectrogram, sky-map, and Bayesian checks. No pairs exceed 3σ significance at both detectors, leading to the claim of a null result that implies an upper bound on the lensing detection rate of ≤1.5/yr when sub-threshold candidates are included.

Significance. A robust null result with quantified efficiency would supply a useful model-independent constraint on the rate of lensed GW events in the current detector network, particularly by extending the search into the noise-dominated sub-threshold regime. This could help calibrate expectations for lensing detections in O4 and beyond. The direct data-driven approach and multi-stage vetoes are positive features, but the missing recovery statistics prevent the rate bound from being interpreted quantitatively.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that the null detection 'translates to an upper bound on the lensing detection rate to be ≤1.5/yr' is load-bearing for the central result, yet the manuscript supplies no injection-recovery statistics, efficiency curves versus SNR or magnification, or false-negative estimates for faint lensed pairs in the sub-threshold regime. Without these, the bound cannot be derived from the observed null result.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract contains minor grammatical issues (e.g., 'the occurrence of lensed events stands at a few per thousand events') that should be polished for clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their detailed review and for highlighting an important issue with the rate bound presented in the abstract. We address the comment below and will revise the manuscript accordingly.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that the null detection 'translates to an upper bound on the lensing detection rate to be ≤1.5/yr' is load-bearing for the central result, yet the manuscript supplies no injection-recovery statistics, efficiency curves versus SNR or magnification, or false-negative estimates for faint lensed pairs in the sub-threshold regime. Without these, the bound cannot be derived from the observed null result.

    Authors: We agree with the referee that the specific numerical upper bound of ≤1.5/yr cannot be rigorously derived without injection-recovery statistics, efficiency curves, or false-negative estimates. The bound in the current manuscript is a simple estimate based on the total observation time spanned by GWTC-4 and the number of pairs searched (~11,000), but it lacks the quantitative efficiency analysis required for a proper frequentist or Bayesian upper limit. We will revise the abstract and the relevant discussion sections to remove the unqualified numerical bound. In its place we will either (a) state only that the null result is consistent with a low lensing rate or (b) add a new subsection that reports preliminary efficiency estimates obtained by injecting simulated lensed pairs into the GLANCE pipeline (with the understanding that a full efficiency study will be required for any future quantitative claim). revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Minor self-citation for GLANCE method; null-result upper bound derived directly from data search without reduction to fitted inputs

full rationale

The paper executes a model-independent cross-correlation search (GLANCE) over ~11,000 pairs in GWTC-4 strain data, reports no pairs exceeding 3σ at both detectors, and states that this null result directly translates to an upper bound ≤1.5/yr on the lensing detection rate. No equations or steps reduce the reported bound to a parameter defined by the same search or to a self-citation chain; the bound follows from counting zero significant triggers in the searched volume. Any citation to prior GLANCE development is peripheral and not load-bearing for the central claim, which remains an independent data-driven statement.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review provides insufficient detail to enumerate free parameters or invented entities; the central assumption is the reliability of the cross-correlation method in the sub-threshold regime.

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  • domain assumption GLANCE cross-correlation plus post-search checks can reliably exclude lensed pairs without missing real events in noise-dominated data
    This premise underpins the validity of the null result and rate bound.

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