Topics of LIGO Physics: Template Banks for the Inspiral of Precessing, Compact Binaries, and Design of the Signal-Recycling Cavity for Advanced LIGO
<p>In the next decade, the detection of gravitational-wave signals by ground-based laser interferometric detectors (e.g., the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO) will provide new information on the structure and dynamics of compact objects such as neutron stars (NS) a...