Description
Book SynopsisThis book describes detection techniques used to search for and analyze gravitational waves (GW). It covers the whole domain of GW science, starting from the theory and ending with the experimental techniques (both present and future) used to detect them.The theoretical sections of the book address the theory of general relativity and of GW, followed by the theory of GW detection. The various sources of GW are described as well as the methods used to analyse them and to extract their physical parameters. It includes an analysis of the consequences of GW observations in terms of astrophysics as well as a description of the different detectors that exist and that are planned for the future.With the recent announcement of GW detection and the first results from LISA Pathfinder, this book will allow non-specialists to understand the present status of the field and the future of gravitational wave science.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Theory: Theory of Gravitational Waves (Jerome Novak and Alexandre Le Tiec); Wave forms: PN + EOB + General Relativity (Alexandre Nagar and Alexandre Le Tiec); Theory of Measurement (J Y Vinet); Gravitational Wave Sources and their Analysis (M Colpi and A Sesana); Present and Future Detectors: Virgo/Ligo/Geo + (Kagra + India + Future Projects) (Giacomo Ciani and Paul Fulda); LISA (Guido Muller); LISA Pathfinder (Rita Dolesi); Cold Atoms (Remi Geiger); PTA (Antoine Petiteau);
