Preface to theme issue about multi-messenger gravitational lensing

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Author(s)Smith, Graham P.
Author(s)Hendry, Martin A.
Author(s)Bianco, Federica
Date Accessioned2025-05-19T14:20:39Z
Date Available2025-05-19T14:20:39Z
Publication Date2025-03-17
DescriptionThis article was originally published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2024.0133. © 2025 The Author(s). Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
AbstractMulti-messenger gravitational lensing combines multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational lensing. The first gravitational lensing observations occurred during the 1919 total solar eclipse, and were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, thus providing early support for Einstein’s theory of General Relativity [1]. Systematic observations of gravitational lenses—beyond the Solar System and the Local Group—began decades later in the late twentieth century [2–4]. The ground-breaking detections of neutrinos from the Sun and SN1987A occurred on a similar timescale [5–9], marking the dawn of multi-messenger astronomy. This field experienced a spectacular renaissance three decades later when gravitational waves (GWs), and electromagnetic (EM) radiation from gamma rays to radio waves were detected from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger in 2017 [10,11]. The first confirmed discoveries of gravitationally lensed transient sources, and the first detection of neutrinos from an extragalactic source were both achieved in parallel with the early GW discoveries [12–14].
SponsorThe authors acknowledge generous support from The Royal Society for the ‘Multi-messenger Gravitational Lensing’ Theo Murphy Meeting in Manchester, March 2024. G.P.S. acknowledges support from The Royal Society, the Leverhulme Trust and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (grant number ST/X001296/1). M.A.H. acknowledges support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (grant number ST/L000946/1).
CitationSmith GP, Hendry MA, Bianco F. 2025 Preface to theme issue about multi-messenger gravitational lensing. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 383: 20240133. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2024.0133
ISSN1471-2962
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/36167
Languageen_US
PublisherPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
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Keywordsgravitational lensing
Keywordsgravitational waves
Keywordsblack holes
Keywordsneutron stars
Keywordsneutrinos
Keywordsgamma-ray bursts
Keywordssupernovae
Keywordskilonovae
Keywordsgalaxies
Keywordsgalaxy clusters
TitlePreface to theme issue about multi-messenger gravitational lensing
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