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The windows of observational astronomy have become broader. They now include, along with photons from many decades of the electromagnetic spectrum, extraterrestrial artifacts of other sorts: cosmic rays, meteorites, particles from
the solar wind, samples of the lunar surface, and neutrinos. With gravitational-wave
astronomy, we are on the threshold-or just beyond the threshold-of adding another window; it is a particularly important window because it will
allow us to observe phenomena that cannot be studied adequately by other
means: gravitational collapse, the interiors of supernovae, black holes, short-period
binaries, and perhaps new details of pulsar structure. There is the further possibility that gravitational-wave astronomy will reveal entirely new phenomena-or familiar phenomena in unfamiliar guise-in trying to explain the observations of Joseph Weber.Keywords:
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米国と欧州のレーザー干渉計型重力波望遠鏡LIGO,Virgoが重力波の直接検出を成し遂げ,日本のKAGRAも稼働を始めた。重力波を用いる宇宙の観測"重力波天文学"は今まさに幕を開けたばかりである。
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