GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: Third Edoardo Amaldi Conference

Sydney Meshkov, California Institute of Technology, LIGO 18-34, Pasadena, CA, USA

Conference Location and Date: Pasadena, California, 12-16 July 1999

Subseries: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Published ; ISBN 1563969440 One Volume, Print; 510 pages; 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches;

Readership: astrophysicists; scientists and engineers in optics, coatings, lasers, computers, signal processing, data analysis, and acoustics; members of the five major interferometer projects: ACIGA, GEO, TAMA, and VIRGO; the five major acoustic detector projects: ALLEGRO, AURIGAS, EXPLORER, NAUTILUS, and NIOBE; and the space-based interferometer project LISA.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Third Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves. The Amaldi Conference had been held twice before, in Frascati, Italy (1994) and at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (1997), but took on a new significance after it was designated as the cornerstone meeting for the recently formed Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC). How to detect gravitaitonal waves is the subject of the Amaldi Conference. Their detection would open a new way of doing astrophysics, different from observing electromagnetic radiation or detecting neutrinos.The proceedings describe the status of both the newest interferometers (land-based and space-based) and bar antennae that will be built to detect gravitational waves. The latest lasers, optics, and suspensions are discussed, as well as advances in signal processing and data analysis.

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