Gravitational Wave Astronomy – Where do we stand?
Prof. Keith Riles
H. Richard Crane Collegiate Professor of Physics
University of Michigan
The era of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy is now well under way, with nearly 100 compact binary coalescences (CBCs) confidently published from the first three observing runs of LIGO and Virgo. With the fourth observing run of LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA now under way and many more detections being made, it is timely to review what has been learned so far, both from the CBC events and from the absence of other types of GW detections, including continuous and stochastic radiation. Prospects for making such new discoveries soon will be discussed, along with the potential insights to be gained from the flood of CBC events expected in the coming years and decades.
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Originally published at physics.nd.edu.