Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Delivering on the Promises
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2018-04-18 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Now that LIGO and Virgo have begun to detect gravitational wave events with regularity, the field of gravitational wave astronomy is beginning to realise its promise. Binary black holes and, very recently, binary neutron stars have been observed, and we are already learning much from them. The future, with improved sensitivity, more detectors, and detectors like LISA in different frequency bands, has even more promise to open a completely hidden side of the Universe to our exploration.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1804.06308,
title = {Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Delivering on the Promises},
author = {Bernard F Schutz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06308},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
12 pages, 1 figure, presented at a discussion meeting "Promises of gravitational wave astronomy" held at the Royal Society London, 11 September 2017