Gravitational wave astronomy

Bernard F Schutz

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Gravitational wave astronomy

Bernard F Schutz

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Submitted 9 Nov 1999

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The authors' main claim This will be a milestone for fundamental physics and it will open the new observational science of gravitational wave astronomy.

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The first decade of the new millenium should see the first direct detections of gravitational waves. This will be a milestone for fundamental physics and it will open the new observational science of gravitational wave astronomy. But gravitational waves already play an important role in the modeling of astrophysical systems. I review here the present state of gravitational radiation theory in relativity and astrophysics, and I then look at the development of detector sensitivity over the next decade, both on the ground (such as LIGO) and in space (LISA). I review the sources of gravitational waves that are likely to play an important role in observations by first- and second-generation interferometers, including the astrophysical information that will come from these observations. The review covers some 10 decades of gravitational wave frequency, from the high-frequency normal modes of neutron stars down to the lowest frequencies observable from space. The discussion of sources includes recent developments regarding binary black holes, spinning neutron stars, and the stochastic background.

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The first decade of the new millenium should see the first direct detections of gravitational waves. This will be a milestone for fundamental physics and it will open the new observational science of gravitational wave astronomy. But gravitational waves already play an important role in the modeling of astrophysical systems. I review here the present state of gravitational radiation theory in relativity and astrophysics, and I then look at the development of detector sensitivity over the next decade, both on the ground (such as LIGO) and in space (LISA). I review the sources of gravitational waves that are likely to play an important role in observations by first- and second-generation interferometers, including the astrophysical information that will come from these observations. The review covers some 10 decades of gravitational wave frequency, from the high-frequency normal modes of neutron stars down to the lowest frequencies observable from space. The discussion of sources includes recent developments regarding binary black holes, spinning neutron stars, and the stochastic background.

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Among the most promising targets for next–generation space–based gravitational wave detectors, LISA [ref] , Taiji [ref] , and TianQin [ref] , are EMRIs.

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The strength of the SGWB is described by the ratio of the SGWB energy density per logarithmic frequency bin to the critical density of the Universe, $ρ_c≡3H_0^2c^2/(8πG)$ [ref] :

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Among all the sources for space-based gravitational wave detectors——such as Taiji [ref] , Tianqin [ref] , and LISA [ref] ——the Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral system (EMRI) is a crucial class of gravitational wave sources in the mHz frequency band, in which a stellar-mass object inspirals around a supermassive black hole [ref] .

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