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The 48 pages that link to Gravitational-wave astronomy, each with the reason it gives.

• Signal-to-noise ratioRelated: Detection pipelines assess whether a waveform rises above instrumental noise.

• Quantum gravityRelated: Strong-field observations test gravity and may constrain departures from classical predictions.

• Dynamical frictionRelated: Friction-driven orbital evolution can shape the environments and histories of gravitational-wave sources.

• Event horizonRelated: Wave observations test the dynamics of compact objects and can probe whether their boundaries behave like horizons.

• AstrophysicsRelated: It exposes mergers of compact objects that may be faint or invisible in light.

• Multi-messenger astronomyRelated: Gravitational waves provide a messenger that can escape dense matter and reveal the motion of massive objects.

• Orbital decayRelated: The inspiral caused by orbital decay produces waveforms used to measure compact binary systems.

• Time dilationRelated: Precise timing and relativistic models are essential to interpreting signals across detector arms.

• Wave interferenceRelated: Laser interferometers detect passing gravitational waves through changes in optical interference.

• Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limitRelated: Merger signals constrain the remnant’s stability and the dense matter behind the limit.

• 47 TucanaeRelated: Dense clusters like 47 Tucanae may form compact binaries that later emit gravitational waves.

• Fermi Gamma-ray Space TelescopeRelated: Fermi reported a possible gamma-ray counterpart shortly after the 2017 neutron-star merger signal.

• Green Bank TelescopeRelated: Pulsar timing with the telescope contributes to searches for low-frequency gravitational waves.

• Intermediate-mass black holeRelated: Mergers involving intermediate-mass black holes can produce gravitational waves detectable by observatories.

• Quark starRelated: Compact-star mergers may reveal tidal properties or phase changes associated with quark matter.

• Time-domain astronomyRelated: Joint observations can connect gravitational-wave detections with changing electromagnetic emission.

• Astronomical instrumentationRelated: Interferometric detectors capture spacetime signals that conventional telescopes cannot measure.

• Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.Related: Taylor’s indirect evidence anticipated later direct observations of gravitational waves.

• Modern physicsRelated: It tests general relativity and reveals events inaccessible to ordinary light-based astronomy.

• No-hair theoremRelated: Black-hole mergers let observations test whether remnants settle into the predicted family.

• Stellar black holeRelated: Merging stellar black holes produce signals that expose otherwise dark systems.

• High-energy astrophysicsRelated: Its observations complement high-energy signals from mergers of compact objects.

• Astronomical black holesRelated: Merging black holes produce signals that reveal their masses, spins, and distances.

• Black hole astronomyRelated: Merging black holes can be detected without relying on emitted light.

• Computational astrophysicsRelated: Simulations predict waveforms used to interpret observations of compact-object mergers.