Relativistic Astrophysics

Herausgegeben:Riffert, Harald; Ruder, Hanns; Nollert, Hans-Peter; Hehl, Friedrich W

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Produktbeschreibung

During the first decades after Einstein had developed his Theory of General Relativity, the main effort was to understand the theory and verify it experimentically. Meanwhile Genral Relativity is one of the experimentally best confirmed theories and has become a powerful tool for the investigation of cosmic processes where strong gravitational fields are involved.

This book contains 16 contributions from well-known experts giving a broad overview for non-specialists who want to learn how to purely academic issues like gravitational wave detectors are now put into reality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vieweg+Teubner / Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-663-11296-9
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9783663112969
• ISBN-10: 3663112969
• Artikelnr.: 39578510

Autorenporträt

Hans-Peter Nollert (Penn State University, USA), Harald Riffert (U Tübingen), Hanns Ruder (U Tübingen) und Friedrich W. Hehl (U Köln) forschen alle auf den verschiedenen Teilgebieten der Astrophysik. Prof. Dr. Hanns Ruder ist außerdem Leiter der entsprechenden Fachgruppe der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG).

Inhaltsangabe

General Relativity as a Tool for Astrophysics.- Cosmological Dark Matter as Seen with Weak Gravitational Lensing.- Gravitational Microlensing: Machos and Quasars.- Laser-Interferometric Gravitational WaveDetectors - on the Ground and in Deep Space.- Light Deflection Near Neutron Stars.- Magnetohydrodynamics of Rotating Black Holes.- Thin Accretion Disks around Black Holes.- Low-Frequency Oscillations of Relativistic Accretion Disks.- Relativistic Radiation Hydrodynamics and Shocks in Gamma-Ray Bursts.- Instabilities of Rotating Neutron Stars.- The Fate of Stars in the Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes.- Newtonian and Post-Newtonian Calculations of Coalescing Compact Binaries.- Quasinormal Ringdown: The Late Stage of Neutron Star Mergers.- A General Relativistic Approach to Neutron Star Binary Evolution.- A Forty-Year Search for the Hubble Constant.- Experimental Gravity.