Josh Goldberg and the physical reality of gravitational waves

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3289-3299

  Saulson, Peter R ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravitational waves; Quadrupole formula

Indexed keywords

EID: 81555211170     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-011-1237-z     Document Type: Review

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