Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves

Large-scale interferometric detectors including LIGO and Virgo sense gravitational waves; minuscule fluctuations in space-time from the most extreme phenomena in the Universe. Current and future gravitational wave detectors will probe cosmology, general relativity, and the distribution of stellar remnants at low and high redshifts. I will describe detector technologies, science targets, and methods for the advanced era detector network and beyond.