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Gravitational waves: From discovery to astronomy

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Efforts to detect gravitational waves from violent events in the cosmos, the only ones at least initially detectable, had a turning point when long baseline measurements of tiny differential displacements of test masses were demonstrated with laser interferometric detectors on ground and shown feasible for space missions. With the advent on a five year time frame of advanced versions of the km baseline ground-based interferometers and, somewhat later, of a million km space-based interferometer, a wide band, 0.1mHz to 10kHz, will be complementarily explored. Progress in relativistic astrophysics and numerical relativity have meanwhile focused on amplitudes and rates of a number of classes of gravitational wave (GW) generating events, estimating confidently the ranges of expected GW signals. The purpose of this review is to give an outlook on the initial crop of GW observations, on their impact in fundamental physics, in relativistic astrophysics and in cosmology, and give also an updated view of the methods and technologies, which are making possible the historical achievement of opening the era of GW astronomy.

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Cerdonio, M., Losurdo, G. Gravitational waves: From discovery to astronomy. Riv. Nuovo Cim. 35, 389–480 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1393/ncr/i2012-10079-4

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