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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 5
Figure 5: Measurements of the coefficient (1 + γ )∕2 from light deflection and time delay measurements. Its GR value is unity. The arrows at the top denote anomalously large values from early eclipse expeditions. The Shapiro time-delay measurements using the Cassini spacecraft yielded an agreement with GR to 10− 3 percent, and VLBI light deflection measurements have reached 0.01 percent. Hipparcos denotes the optical astrometry satellite, which reached 0.1 percent.

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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