PiTP 2025 - Pre-Reading Materials

Suggested PiTP 2025 pre-reading materials are now available.  Please check back frequently as we will update this list as new information becomes available.

Bruce Allen

(1) Bruce Allen. The stochastic gravity-wave background: sources and detection in Relativistic gravitation and gravitational radiation", J.A. Marck, J.P. Lasota. (Proceedings, Les Houches School of Physics: Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Radiation), Cambridge Contemporary Astrophysics, 1997, pages 373-417.  https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9604033

(2) Bruce Allen and Joseph D Romano.  Detecting a stochastic background of gravitational radiation: Signal processing strategies and sensitivities Phys. Rev. D 59, 102001, 1999. https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.59.102001

(3) Joseph D Romano and Bruce Allen.  Answers to frequently asked questions about the pulsar timing array Hellings and Downs curve Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 41, Number 17, 2024.  https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ad4c4c

(4) Bruce Allen and Joseph D Romano.  Optimal Reconstruction of the Hellings and Downs Correlation Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 031401, 2025. 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.031401
 

Adam Burrows

(1) "Physical Correlations and Predictions Emerging from Modern Core-collapse Supernova Theory"

(2) "Gravitational-wave signature of core-collapse supernovae"
 

Maya Fishbach

(1) "Observed Gravitational Wave Populations," by Callister: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19145

(2) "Merging Stellar-Mass Binary Black Holes," by Mandel & Farmer: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05820
 

Patricia Schmidt

(Note: Recommended literature to accompany the waveform lectures - not required pre-reading)

Books:
(1) Michele Maggiore: “Gravitational Waves - Volume 1: Theory and Experiments” (2008)
(2) Michele Maggiore: “Gravitational Waves - Volume 2: Astrophysics and Cosmology” (2018)
(3) Eric Poisson & Clifford M. Will: “Gravity” (2014)

Review articles:
(1) Eanna E. Flanagan & Scott A. Hughes: “The basics of gravitational wave theory”, arXiv:0501041
(2) Alessandra Buonanno: “Gravitational Waves”, arXiv:0709.4682
(3) Alessandra Buonanno & B. S. Sathyaprakash: “Sources of Gravitational Waves”, arXiv: 1410.7832
(4) Thibault Damour & Alessandro Nagar: “The effective one body description of the two-body problem” arXiv:0906.1769