Intro
Preface
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Gravitational Waves Sans General Theory of Relativity
3 Gravitational Waves from Binary Systems
3.1 Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Holes
3.2 Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Stars
3.3 Gravitational Waves from Dark Matter Objects
4 Thermal Gravitational Waves
4.1 Thermal Gravitational Waves from Stellar Cores
4.2 Thermal Gravitational Waves from White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars
4.3 Thermal Gravitational Waves from Gamma-Ray Bursts
4.4 Thermal Gravitational Waves from Short Duration GRBs

4.5 Thermal Gravitational Waves from Jets
4.6 Thermal Gravitational Waves from PBHs
4.7 Background Thermal Gravitational Radiation
5 Detection of Gravitational Waves
5.1 Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
5.2 Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
5.3 Matter-Wave Laser Interferometric Gravitation Antenna
5.4 Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector
5.5 Detection of Thermal Gravitational Waves
6 Some More Aspects of Gravitational Waves
6.1 Polarisation of Gravitational Waves
6.2 Deducing Hubble's Constant from Gravitational Wave Observations

6.3 Constraints on Gravitational Dipole Radiation from Pulsars
6.4 Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings
Problems on Gravitational Waves
Bibliography