Journal
LIVING REVIEWS IN RELATIVITY
Volume 16, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER INT PUBL AG
DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2013-7
Keywords
general relativity; gravitational waves; LISA; eLISA; data analysis; black holes; gravitation
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- Royal Society
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- LISA project
- PCOS program
- NASA [11-ATP11-046]
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We review the tests of general relativity that will become possible with space-based gravitational-wave detectors operating in the similar to 10(-5)-1 Hz low-frequency band. The fundamental aspects of gravitation that can be tested include the presence of additional gravitational fields other than the metric; the number and tensorial nature of gravitational-wave polarization states; the velocity of propagation of gravitational waves; the binding energy and gravitational-wave radiation of binaries, and therefore the time evolution of binary inspirals; the strength and shape of the waves emitted from binary mergers and ringdowns; the true nature of astrophysical black holes; and much more. The strength of this science alone calls for the swift implementation of a space-based detector; the remarkable richness of astrophysics, astronomy, and cosmology in the low-frequency gravitational-wave band make the case even stronger.
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