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ContentsviiPART 2Gravitational-wave detectorsGuido Pizzella, Angela Di Virgilio, Peter Bender and Francesco Fucito 898 Resonant detectors for gravitational waves and their bandwidth 918.1 Sensitivity and bandwidth of resonant detectors 918.2 Sensitivity for various GW signals 958.3 Recent results obtained with the resonant detectors 998.4 Discussion and conclusions 101References 1029 The Earth-based large interferometer Virgo and the Low FrequencyFacility 1039.1 Introduction 1039.1.1 Interferometer principles and Virgo parameters 1049.2 The SA suspension and requirements on the control 1089.3 A few words about the Low Frequency Facility 1119.4 Conclusion 112References 11410 LISA: A proposed joint ESA–NASA gravitational-wave mission 11510.1 Description of the LISA mission 11510.1.1 Introduction 11510.1.2 Overall antenna and spacecraft design 11610.1.3 Optics and interferometry system 12110.1.4 Free mass sensors 12510.1.5 Micronewton thrusters 12910.1.6 Mission scenario 13110.2 Expected gravitational-wave results from LISA 13210.2.1 LISA sensitivity and galactic sources 13210.2.2 Origin of massive black holes 13610.2.3 Massive black holes in normal galaxies 13810.2.4 Structure formation and massive black hole coalescence 14110.2.5 Fundamental physics tests with LISA 14310.2.6 Future prospects 146Acknowledgments 148References 14811 Detection of scalar gravitational waves 15211.1 Introduction 15211.2 Testing theories of gravity 15411.2.1 Free vibrations of an elastic sphere 15411.2.2 Interaction of a metric GW with the sphere vibrationalmodes 15511.2.3 Measurements of the sphere vibrations and wavepolarization states 157