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We hope we have convinced the reader that large interferometers do have the potential sensitivity to detect bursts of gravitational radiation at the level where they are predicted today. Whether this will be realized within 5 years or 15 years, it is still too early to say, but there are no fundamental obstacles. The work to be done is not only a huge experimental effort ; we also need more theoretical work concerning the prediction of the amplitude and the frequency spectrum of these events, and also how these signals could be used as tests of the gravitation theories.
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Brillet, A. (1984). The interferometric detection of gravitational waves. In: Gravitation, Geometry and Relativistic Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 212. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0012591
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