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Extracting Physics from Gravitational Waves

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Distance measurements of stellar objects have always been of interest to astronomers and astrophysicists. Nowadays, scientists are interested in distances to these objects because of the potential to inform us about physics on cosmological scales.

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Li, T.G.F. (2015). Cosmography. In: Extracting Physics from Gravitational Waves. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19273-4_11

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