"General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology"

Expanding the Reach of Gravitational Wave Astronomy to the Edge of the Universe: The Gravitational-Wave International Committee Study Reports on Next Generation Ground-based Gravitational-Wave Observatories

The first direct detection of gravitational waves emitted from a pair of merging black holes in 2015 has been heralded as one of most significant scientific breakthroughs in physics and astronomy of the 21st century. Motivated by the tremendous …

Future Ground-Based Gravitational-Wave Observatories: Synergies with Other Scientific Communities

Planning for the development of a 3rd generation global gravitational-wave detector array is a multifaceted and complex effort that will necessarily need a high level of community input. Interfacing to extant and new stakeholders in the broader …

Gravitational Wave Data Analysis: Computing Challenges in the 3G Era

Cyber infrastructure will be a critical consideration in the development of next generation gravitational-wave detectors. The demand for data analysis computing in the 3G era will be driven by the high number of detections as well as the expanded …

Legacy of the First Workshop on Gravitational Wave Astrophysics for Early Career Scientists

Gravitational wave science is a dynamical, fast-expanding research field founded on results, tools and methodologies drawn from different research areas and communities. Early career scientists entering this field must learn and combine knowledge and …

The Next Generation Global Gravitational Wave Observatory: The Science Book

The next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors will observe coalescences of black holes and neutron stars throughout the cosmos, thousands of them with exceptional fidelity. The Science Book is the result of a 3-year effort to study …

The First 5 Years of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics

General relativity predicts that moving massive objects generate gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime that propagate at the speed of light. Direct detection of gravitational waves was first announced in February of 2016. Vitale reviews the …

Reproducing GW150914: The First Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

In 2016, LIGO and Virgo announced the first observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger, known as GW150914. To establish the confidence of this detection, large-scale scientific workflows were used to measure the event's …

Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatories

In this article, which will appear as a chapter in the Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, we will describe the detection of gravitational waves with space-based interferometric gravitational wave observatories. We will provide an overview of …

Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves

Gravitational-wave sources offer us unique testbeds for probing strong-field, dynamical, and nonlinear aspects of gravity. In this chapter, we give a brief overview of the current status and future prospects of testing general relativity with …

Effective Field Theories of Post-Newtonian Gravity: A Comprehensive Review*

This review article presents the progress made over the last decade, since the introduction of effective field theories (EFTs) into post-Newtonian (PN) gravity. These have been put forward in the context of gravitational waves (GWs) from the compact …