Mario Diaz, Gabriela Gonzalez

The Sound of the Cosmos

Gravitational Waves and the Birth of Multi-Messenger Astronomy

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Produktbeschreibung

"A comprehensive insider's account of the discovery of gravitational waves, including insights on the physics theory and the critical LIGO technology that made it possible"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 236mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780262544948
• ISBN-10: 0262544946
• Artikelnr.: 66221908

Autorenporträt

Mario Díaz, Gabriela González, and Jorge Pullin

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
1 Gravity from the Ancient Greeks to Newton 1
2 Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity 15
3 The General Theory of Relativity 29
4 Gravitational Waves: Their Long and Difficult History 55
5 The Life and Death of Stars 77
6 Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Radiation 89
7 Numerical Relativity 97
8 A Brief History of Terrestrial Gravitational Wave Detectors 105
9 The Technology of LIGO 123
10 At Last: Detections--and Many! 151
11 The Birth of Gravitational Wave Multi-Messenger Astronomy 171
12 The Future 185
Epilogue 197
Acknowledgements 199
Notes 201
Recommended Reading 205
Index 207