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Status of Gravitational Wave Detection

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We review the status of gravitational wave detection.

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I am deeply grateful to Stan Withcomb whose presentation at Amaldi 7 has been very much of help for the preparation of this paper; I am also deeply grateful to Giancarlo Cella for carefully reading the manuscript.

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Giazotto, A. (2010). Status of Gravitational Wave Detection. In: Ciufolini, I., Matzner, R. (eds) General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 367. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3735-0_11

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