Gravitational Waves, Sources, and Detectors

Abstract

Notes of lectures for graduate students that were given at Lake Como in 1999, covering the theory of linearized gravitational waves, their sources, and the prospects at the time for detecting gravitational waves. The lectures remain of interest for pedagogical reasons, and in particular because they contain a treatment of current-quadrupole gravitational radiation (in connection with the r-modes of neutron stars) that is not readily available in other sources.

82 pages, 9 figures, lecture notes from 1999, not posted to ArXiV at the time because they exceeded the article/figure size limits

References in corpus (9)

• A new class of unstable modes of rotating relativistic stars
• Gravitational Radiation and Rotation of Accreting Neutron Stars
• Gravitational waves from hot young rapidly rotating neutron stars
• Gravitational Radiation Instability in Hot Young Neutron Stars
• Axial instability of rotating relativistic stars
• Searching for periodic sources with LIGO
• Formation and coalescence of relativistic binary stars: effect of kick velocity
• Formation and Evolution of Binary Neutron Stars
• Gravitational Radiation from String Cosmology

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