"Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology
with Gravitational Waves"
by
B.S. Sathyaprakash and Bernard F. Schutz
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Abstract
1
A New Window onto the Universe
1.1
Birth of gravitational astronomy
1.2
What this review is about
2
Gravitational Wave Observables
2.1
Gravitational field vs gravitational waves
2.2
Gravitational wave polarizations
2.3
Direction to a source
2.4
Amplitude of gravitational waves – the quadrupole approximation
2.5
Frequency of gravitational waves
2.6
Luminosity in gravitational waves
3
Sources of Gravitational Waves
3.1
Man-made sources
3.2
Gravitational wave bursts from gravitational collapse
3.3
Gravitational wave pulsars
3.4
Radiation from a binary star system
3.5
Quasi-normal modes of a black hole
3.6
Stochastic background
4
Gravitational Wave Detectors and Their Sensitivity
4.1
Principles of the operation of resonant mass detectors
4.2
Principles of the operation of beam detectors
4.3
Practical issues of ground-based interferometers
4.4
Detection from space
4.5
Characterizing the sensitivity of a gravitational wave antenna
4.6
Source amplitudes vs sensitivity
4.7
Network detection
4.8
False alarms, detection threshold and coincident observation
5
Data Analysis
5.1
Matched filtering and optimal signal-to-noise ratio
5.2
Suboptimal filtering methods
5.3
Measurement of parameters and source reconstruction
6
Physics with Gravitational Waves
6.1
Speed of gravitational waves
6.2
Polarization of gravitational waves
6.3
Gravitational radiation reaction
6.4
Black hole spectroscopy
6.5
The two-body problem in general relativity
6.6
Tests of general relativity
7
Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves
7.1
Interacting compact binaries
7.2
Black hole astrophysics
7.3
Neutron star astrophysics
7.4
Multimessenger gravitational-wave astronomy
8
Cosmology with Gravitational Wave Observations
8.1
Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background
8.2
Origin of a random background of gravitational waves
8.3
Cosmography: gravitational wave measurements of cosmological parameters
9
Conclusions and Future Directions
10
Acknowledgements
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