# Gravitational wave astronomy

@article{Schutz1999GravitationalWA,
title={Gravitational wave astronomy},
author={Bernard F. Schutz},
journal={Classical and Quantum Gravity},
year={1999},
volume={16}
}
• B. Schutz
• Published 9 November 1999
• Physics, Geology
• Classical and Quantum Gravity
The first decade of the new millennium should see the first direct detections of gravitational waves. This will be a milestone or fundamental physics and it will open the new observational science of gravitational wave astronomy. But gravitational waves already play an important role in the modeling of astrophysical systems. I review here the present state of gravitational radiation theory in relativity and astrophysics, and I then look at the development of detector sensitivity over the next…
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