Research report 2012 - Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Fishing for gravitational waves
Authors
Babak, Stanislav; Jasiulek, Michael; Schutz, Bernard F.
Departments
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam-Golm
Summary
The ground-based gravitational wave observatories, eLISA and pulsar timing arrays span a huge frequency range and probe very different sources of gravitational waves. As instruments are improved and the data analysis techniques become even more robust and sophisticated, detections become more and more likely. Conservatively, we expect a first detection of gravitational waves within the next 10 years, and it seems likely to happen in half that time.