An Overview of Gravitational-Wave Sources

Abstract

We review current best estimates of the strength and detectability of the gravitational waves from a variety of sources, for both ground-based and space-based detectors, and we describe the information carried by the waves.

40 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Proceedings of GR16 (Durban, South Africa, 2001)

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