  A review is given of recent research on gravitational waves from compact
bodies and its relevance to the LIGO/VIRGO international network of
high-frequency (10 to 10,000 Hz) gravitational-wave detectors, and to the
proposed LISA system of low-frequency (0.1 to 0.0001 Hz) detectors. The sources
that are reviewed are ordinary binary star systems, binaries made from compact
bodies (black holes and neutron stars), the final inspiral and coalescence of
compact-body binaries, the inspiral of stars and small black holes into massive
black holes, the stellar core collapse that triggers supernovae, and the spin
of neutron stars. This paper is adapted from a longer review article entitled
``Gravitational Waves'' (GRP-411) that the author has written for the
Proceedings of the Snowmass '94 Summer Study on Particle and Nuclear
Astrophysics and Cosmology.
