This volume provides the first self-contained treatment of the structure, stability and oscillations of rotating neutron stars.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
John Friedman is a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, he recently served as Chair of its gravitational physics section. He has been on the editorial boards of Classical and Quantum Gravity and Physical Review D, and was a divisional associate editor of Physical Review Letters. His awards include the Telegdi Prize and the Marc Perry Galler Award.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Stationary, axisymmetric equilibria 2. 3+1 split, action, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms 3. Asymptotics, virial identities and nonaxisymmetric equilibria 4. Numerical schemes 5. Equilibrium models 6. Approximation methods 7. Perturbation theory of relativistic fluids 8. Quasinormal modes 9. Stellar stability 10. Nonlinear dynamics of rotating relativistic stars Appendix.