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Space-Based Gravitational-Wave Observations as Tools for Testing General RelativityWe continued a project, to analyse the ways in which detection and study of gravitational waves could provide quantitative tests of general relativity, with particular emphasis on waves that would be detectable by space-based observatories, such as LISA. This work had three foci: 1) Tests of scalar-tensor theories of gravity that, could be done by analyzing gravitational waves from neutron stars inspiralling into massive black holes, as detectable by LISA; 2) Study of alternative theories of gravity in which the graviton could be massive, and of how gravitational-wave observations by space-based detectors, solar-system tests, and cosmological observations could constrain such theories; and 3) Study of gravitational-radiation back reaction of particles orbiting black holes in general relativity, with emphasis on the effects of spin.
Document ID
20050203652
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Contractor or Grantee Report
Authors
Will, Clifford M.
(Washington Univ. Saint Louis, MO, United States)
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Astronomy
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-10186
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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