Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004cfa..colle..28h&link_type=abstract
CfA Colloquium Lecture Series Talk
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The first generation of sensitive interferometric gravitational-wave(GW) detectors have begun operations. Although they do not yet have the sensitivity at which they are likely to be interesting for astrophysics, they mark the start of an enterprise that, with continued effort, should make GWs a standard tool of observational astrophysics. Black holes are some of the most important and interesting GW sources, promising future detailed studies of strong gravity and compact body populations. In this talk, I will present an overview of GWs and GW detection. I will then focus upon black holes as sources of GWs, describing how GW observations can probe their astrophysical nature and the strong field nature of their spacetimes. I will show that the planned space-based GW detector LISA will be a particularly powerful probe, making possible precision measurements of the nature of black hole spacetimes and enabling studies of their formation and growth from early cosmic epochs.
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