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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
Figure 1
Figure 1: Selected tests of the weak equivalence principle, showing bounds on η, which measures fractional difference in acceleration of different materials or bodies. The free-fall and Eöt-Wash experiments were originally performed to search for a fifth force (green region, representing many experiments). The blue band shows evolving bounds on η for gravitating bodies from lunar laser ranging (LLR).

Clifford M. Will, "The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment",
Living Rev. Relativity, 17 (2014), 4, doi:10.12942/lrr-2014-4, URL (accessed <date>): http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2014-4.
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