Black Holes (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Livio, Mario

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Black holes, once considered to be of purely theoretical interest, play an important role in observational astronomy and a range of astrophysical phenomena. This volume is based on a meeting held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which explored the many aspects of black hole astrophysics. Written by world experts in areas of stellar-mass, intermediate-mass and supermassive black holes, these review papers provide an up-to-date overview of developments in this field. Topics discussed range from black hole entropy and the fate of information to supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, and from the possibility of producing black holes in collider experiments to the measurements of black hole spins. This is an invaluable resource for researchers currently working in the field, and for graduate students interested in this active and growing area of research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139066051
• Artikelnr.: 38445579

Inhaltsangabe

Participants; Preface Mario Livio and Anton Koekemoer; 1. Black holes,
entropy, and information G. T. Horowitz; 2. Gravitational waves from
black-hole mergers J. G. Baker, W. D. Boggs, J. M. Centrella, B. J. Kelley,
S. T. McWilliams and J. R. van Meter; 3. Out-of-this-world physics: black
holes at future colliders G. Landsberg; 4. Black holes in globular clusters
S. L. W. McMillan; 5. Evolution of massive black holes M. Volonteri; 6.
Supermassive black holes in deep multiwavelength surveys C. M. Urry and E.
Treister; 7. Black-hole masses from reverberation mapping B. M. Peterson
and M. C. Bentz; 8. Black-hole masses from gas dynamics F. D. Macchetto; 9.
Evolution of supermassive black holes A. Müller and G. Hasinger; 10.
Black-hole masses of distant quasars M. Vestergaard; 11. The accretion
history of supermassive black holes K. Brand and the NDWFS Boötes Survey
Teams; 12. Strong field gravity and spin of black holes from broad iron
lines A. C. Fabian; 13. Birth of massive black-hole binaries M. Colpi, M.
Dotti, L. Mayer and S. Kazantzidis; 14. Dynamics around supermassive black
holes A. Gualandris and D. Merritt; 15. Black-hole formation and growth:
simulations in general relativity S. L. Shapiro; 16. Estimating the spins
of stellar-mass black holes J. E. McClintock, R. Narayan and R. Shafee; 17.
Stellar relaxation processes near the Galactic massive black hole T.
Alexander; 18. Tidal disruptions of stars by supermassive black holes S.
Gezari; 19. Where to look for radiatively inefficient accretion flows in
low-luminosity AGN M. Chiaberge; 20. Making black holes visible: accretion,
radiation, and jets J. H. Krolik.