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"The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment"
Clifford M. Will 
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Tests of the Foundations of Gravitation Theory
2.1 The Einstein equivalence principle
2.2 Theoretical frameworks for analyzing EEP
2.3 EEP, particle physics, and the search for new interactions
3 Metric Theories of Gravity and the PPN Formalism
3.1 Metric theories of gravity and the strong equivalence principle
3.2 The parametrized post-Newtonian formalism
3.3 Competing theories of gravity
4 Tests of Post-Newtonian Gravity
4.1 Tests of the parameter γ
4.2 The perihelion shift of Mercury
4.3 Tests of the strong equivalence principle
4.4 Other tests of post-Newtonian gravity
4.5 Prospects for improved PPN parameter values
5 Strong Gravity and Gravitational Waves: Tests for the 21st Century
5.1 Strong-field systems in general relativity
5.2 Motion and gravitational radiation in general relativity: A history
5.3 Compact binary systems in general relativity
5.4 Compact binary systems in scalar–tensor theories
6 Stellar System Tests of Gravitational Theory
6.1 The binary pulsar and general relativity
6.2 A zoo of binary pulsars
6.3 Binary pulsars and alternative theories
6.4 Binary pulsars and scalar–tensor gravity
7 Gravitational-Wave Tests of Gravitational Theory
7.1 Gravitational-wave observatories
7.2 Gravitational-wave amplitude and polarization
7.3 Gravitational-wave phase evolution
7.4 Speed of gravitational waves
8 Astrophysical and Cosmological Tests
9 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Footnotes
Updates
Figures
Tables
Equation Icon  ( ¯ ¯ ) κ = 12 + 5 ¯γ − 5ζ𝒮2 (3 + γ¯+ 2 ¯β ) + 10ζ𝒮 𝒮-−β+-+-𝒮+-β−- 1 − + − ¯γ ( ¯ ¯ ) +10 ζ ψ𝒮2− ¯β− − 10 ζψ𝒮 − 𝒮+-β+-+-𝒮-−β−- , ¯γ 45 [ ] ( 𝒮 − ¯β+ + 𝒮+ ¯β− ) κ2 = 11 + --¯γ − 40 ¯β+ − 5ζ𝒮2− 17 + 6¯γ + η + 8β¯+ + 90ζ𝒮 − -------------- 4 ¯γ ( 𝒮+ ¯β+ + 𝒮 − ¯β− ) ( 𝒮+ ¯β+ + 𝒮 − ¯β− )2 +40 ζ ψ𝒮2− ¯β− − 30 ζψ𝒮 − -------------- − 120 ζ -------------- . (104 ) ¯γ ¯γ