Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

Gravitational Radiation, Luminous Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Burst Supernovae

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive overview for graduates of the theories of this contemporary development in physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780521143615
• ISBN-10: 0521143616
• Artikelnr.: 30204574

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Notation
1. Superluminal motion in the quasar 3C273
2. Curved spacetime and SgrA*
3. Parallel transport and isometry of tangent bundles
4. Maxwell's equations
5. Riemannian curvature
6. Gravitational radiation
7. Cosmological event rates
8. Compressible fluid dynamics
9. Waves in relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
10. Nonaxisymmetric waves in a torus
11. Phenomenology of GRB supernovae
12. Kerr black holes
13. Luminous black holes
14. A luminous torus in gravitational radiation
15. GRB supernovae from rotating black holes
16. Observational opportunities for LIGO and VIRGO
17. Epilogue: GRB/XRF singlets, doublets? Triplets!
Appendices
References
Index.