Abstract
Gravitational wave (GW) has become one of the most active fields in physics and astronomy since the first direct detection of GW event in 2015. As is well known, multiple images of GW events are possible through the gravitational lenses. Here, we propose a novel mirror imaging mechanism for GW events different from the gravitational lens. In the literature, the superconductor was predicted to be highly reflective mirror for GWs. It is well known that neutron stars exhibit superconductivity and superfluidity. In this work, we predict that there are two types of GW mirror imaging phenomena caused by the neutron star located in Milky Way or the same host galaxy of GW source, which might be detected within a life period of man (namely the time delay \(\Delta t\) can be a few years to a few tens of years). It is expected to witness this predicted GW mirror imaging phenomenon in the near future. In the long term, the observations of this novel GW mirror imaging phenomenon might help us to find numerous neutron stars unseen by other means, and learn more about the complicated internal structures of neutron stars, as well as their equations of state.
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Note that the neutron star “N” as a mirror for GWs is clearly not the one in the GW source “S” (which might be binary neutron star (BNS) or neutron star – black hole (NSBH)).
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We are grateful to the anonymous referee for the expert and useful comments and suggestions, which have significantly helped us to improve this work. We also thank Rong-Gen Cai, Hongwei Yu, Zong-Kuan Guo, Puxun Wu, Zhoujian Cao, Wen Zhao, Hongsheng Zhang, Bin Hu, Yi Zhang, Hai-Nan Lin, Shou-Long Li, and Shu-Ling Li for very useful discussions. H.W. thank University of Jinan for the kind hospitality. This work was supported in part by NSFC under Grants No. 11975046 and No. 11575022.
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Wei, H., Qiang, DC., Yu, ZX. et al. Neutron star as a mirror for gravitational waves. Astrophys Space Sci 365, 148 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-020-03863-w
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