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

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

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Astronomy & SpacePhysics

ISBN10: 0521849608
ISBN13: 9780521849609
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 15 2005
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.84
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.90 Depth: 10.02
Language: English
Black holes and gravitational radiation are two of the most dramatic predictions of general relativity. The quest for rotating black holes - discovered by Roy P. Kerr as exact solutions to the Einstein equations - is one of the most exciting challenges facing physicists and astronomers. Gravitational Radiation, Luminous Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Burst Supernovae takes the reader through the theory of gravitational radiation and rotating black holes, and the phenomenology of GRB-supernovae. Topics covered include Kerr black holes and the frame-dragging of spacetime, luminous black holes, compact tori around black holes, and black-hole spin interactions. It concludes with a discussion of prospects for gravitational-wave detections of a long-duration burst in gravitational-waves as a method of choice for identifying Kerr black holes in the Universe. This book is ideal for a special topics graduate course on gravitational-wave astronomy and as an introduction to those interested in this contemporary development in physics.

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