Jillian's Guide to Gravitational Waves : References

Links

The LIGO Project a laser interferometer
The LISA Project a laser interferometer in space
The NCSA relativity group which has a beautiful web site with a section on grav waves
The GEO 600 Project also a laser interferometer
The GALILEO Project a research program to develop in collaboration with LIGO advanced interferometers
The Rome Gravitational Wave Experiment resonant mass detectors
Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Department of Physics, Penn State

Bibliography

Thorne, Kip S; "Gravitational Waves"; a paper from the Theoretical Astrophysics conference at CalTech.

Thorne, Kip S.; Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy; January 1995; W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393312763

Jeffries, Andrew D., Saulson, Peter R., Spero, Robert E., Zucker, Michael E.; "Gravitational Wave Observatories"; Scientific American, 1988

Kaufmann, William J. III; The Cosmic Frontiers of General Relativity; Little, Brown and Company, Boston
ASIN 0316483419

Works Cited

Thorne, Kip S. "Gravitational Waves" in a paper presented at Theoretical Astrophysics at Cal-Tech, Pasadena, CA p.161 of the book of the conference

I found this a meaty article, even if it had words I couldn't find in my dictionary and kept tantalizingly mentioning cosmic strings. There are a great many equations in this article; one can ignore them and still find the content useful, or one could work through them and find enlightenment.

p.54 "Gravitational Wave Observatories"; Scientific American, 1988

Well, it's a chart of sources and signal strength and frequencies; it's a tad difficult for me to reproduce, here, but I do have it on my signals page. It's a nice table, even though it doesn't have black hole/black hole binaries. Hmm.

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