Gravitational Waves
| dc.creator | Thorne, Kip S. | |
| dc.date | 1995-07-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:30:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:30:44Z | |
| dc.description | This article reviews current efforts and plans for gravitational-wave detection, the gravitational-wave sources that might be detected, and the information that the detectors might extract from the observed waves. Special attention is paid to (i) the LIGO/VIRGO network of earth-based, kilometer-scale laser interferometers, which is now under construction and will operate in the high-frequency band ($1$ to $10^4$ Hz), and (ii) a proposed 5-million-kilometer-long Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which would fly in heliocentric orbit and operate in the low-frequency band ($10^{-4}$ to $1$ Hz). LISA would extend the LIGO/VIRGO studies of stellar-mass ($M\sim2$ to $300 M_\odot$) black holes into the domain of the massive black holes ($M\sim1000$ to $10^8M_\odot$) that inhabit galactic nuclei and quasars. | |
| dc.description | Latex; 25 pages, 14 figures. Figures are in eps files that are bundled together in a tarred, compressed, and uuencoded form; figures are inserted into text via a "special" command rather than psfig or epsf. Uses a style file "snow.sty" that is bundled with the figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9506086 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9506086 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/35621 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Gravitational Waves | |
| dc.type | text |