Gravitational waves from inspiraling binary black holes

Binary black holes are the most promising candidate sources for the first generation of earth-based interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. We summarize and discuss the state-of-the-art analytic techniques developed during the last years to better describe the late dynamical evolution of binary black holes of comparable masses. E-mail: [email protected] Summary talk given at the 4th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, Perth, Australia, 8-13 July 2001, to appear in Special Issue Article of Classical and Quantum Gravity Gravitational waves from inspiraling binary black holes 2