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Analysis of Gravitational-Wave Detection Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2017

Douglas M. Eardley
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Calif., U.S.A.
David L. Lee
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Calif., U.S.A.
Alan P. Lightman
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Calif., U.S.A.
R. V. Wagoner
Affiliation:
Stanford University, U.S.A.
Clifford M. Will
Affiliation:
University of Chicago, U.S.A.

Abstract

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The structure of weak, plane, null gravitational waves is obtained for any metric theory of gravity. In general, six polarization states are present, which reduce to three (spin 0, ±2) if the theory is to be quantizable. Schemes for obtaining the polarization amplitudes, as well as the direction and velocity of a wave, are presented.

Type
Part I: Gravitational Radiation
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974