Michele Maggiore

Gravitational Waves, Pack: Volumes 1 and 2

Volume 1: Theory and Experiment, Volume 2: Astrophysics and Cosmology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This two-volume book is a comprehensive, detailed account of the physics of gravitational waves. While Vol. 1 is devoted to the theory and experiments, Vol. 2 discusses what can be learned from gravitational waves in astrophysics and cosmology by systematizing a large body of theoretical developments that have taken place over the last decades.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 197mm x 78mm
• Gewicht: 3387g
• ISBN-13: 9780198755289
• ISBN-10: 0198755287
• Artikelnr.: 49206937

Autorenporträt

Michele Maggiore is Professor of Physics at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He served as President of the Physics Section at the University of Geneva until 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

I: Gravitational-wave theory
1: The geometric approach to GWs
2: The field-theoretical approach to GWs
3: Generation of GWs in linearized theory
4: Applications
5: GW generation by post-Newtonian sources
6: Experimental observation of GW emission in compact binaries
II: Experiments
7: Data analysis techniques
8: Resonant-mass detectors
9: Interferometers
III: Astrophysical Sources of GWs
10: Stellar collapse
11: Neutron stars
12: Black-hole perturbation theory
13: Properties of dynamical space-times
14: GWs from coalescing compact binaries. Theory
15: GWs from coalescing compact binaries. Observations
16: Supermassive Black Holes
IV: Cosmology and Gravitational Waves
17: Basics of FRW cosmology
18: Helicity decomposition of the metric perturbations
19: Evolution of cosmological perturbations
20: The imprint of GWs on the CMB
21: Inflation and primordial perturbations
22: Stochastic backgrounds of cosmological origin
23: Stochastic backgrounds and pulsar timing arrays