Gravitational Wave Physics And Astronomy
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Author |
: Jolien D. E. Creighton |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 403 |
Release |
: 2012-01-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783527636044 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3527636048 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy by : Jolien D. E. Creighton
This most up-to-date, one-stop reference combines coverage of both theory and observational techniques, with introductory sections to bring all readers up to the same level. Written by outstanding researchers directly involved with the scientific program of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), the book begins with a brief review of general relativity before going on to describe the physics of gravitational waves and the astrophysical sources of gravitational radiation. Further sections cover gravitational wave detectors, data analysis, and the outlook of gravitational wave astronomy and astrophysics.
Author |
: Cosimo Bambi |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 1895 |
Release |
: 2022-07-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789811643064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9811643067 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy by : Cosimo Bambi
This handbook provides an updated comprehensive description of gravitational wave astronomy. In the first part, it reviews gravitational wave experiments, from ground and space based laser interferometers to pulsar timing arrays and indirect detection from the cosmic microwave background. In the second part, it discusses a number of astrophysical and cosmological gravitational wave sources, including black holes, neutron stars, possible more exotic objects, and sources in the early Universe. The third part of the book reviews the methods to calculate gravitational waveforms. The fourth and last part of the book covers techniques employed in gravitational wave astronomy data analysis. This book represents both a valuable resource for graduate students and an important reference for researchers in gravitational wave astronomy.
Author |
: M. Coleman Miller |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0750330503 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780750330503 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gravitational Waves in Physics and Astrophysics by : M. Coleman Miller
The direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015 has initiated a new era of gravitational wave astronomy, which has already paid remarkable dividends in our understanding of astrophysics and gravitational physics. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this book introduces gravitational waves and its many applications to cosmology, nuclear physics, astrophysics and theoretical physics.
Author |
: Nils Andersson |
Publisher |
: Oxford Graduate Texts |
Total Pages |
: 680 |
Release |
: 2019-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198568032 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198568037 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gravitational-Wave Astronomy by : Nils Andersson
This book is an introduction to gravitational waves and related astrophysics. It provides a bridge across the range of astronomy, physics and cosmology that comes into play when trying to understand the gravitational-wave sky. Starting with Einstein's theory of gravity, chapters develop the key ideas step by step, leading up to the technology that finally caught these faint whispers from the distant universe. The second part of the book makes a direct connection with current research, introducing the relevant language and making the involved concepts less "mysterious". The book is intended to work as a platform, low enough that anyone with an elementary understanding of gravitational waves can scramble onto it, but at the same time high enough to connect readers with active research - and the many exciting discoveries that are happening right now. The first part of the book introduces the key ideas, following a general overview chapter and including a brief reminder of Einstein's theory. This part can be taught as a self-contained one semester course. The second part of the book is written to work as a collection of "set pieces" with core material that can be adapted to specific lectures and additional material that provide context and depth. A range of readers may find this book useful, including graduate students, astronomers looking for basic understanding of the gravitational-wave window to the universe, researchers analysing data from gravitational-wave detectors, and nuclear and particle physicists.
Author |
: Govert Schilling |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2017-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674971660 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674971663 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ripples in Spacetime by : Govert Schilling
A spacetime appetizer -- Relatively speaking -- Einstein on trial -- Wave talk and bar fights -- The lives of stars -- Clockwork precision -- Laser quest -- The path to perfection -- Creation stories -- Cold case -- Gotcha -- Black magic -- Nanoscience -- Follow-up questions -- Space invaders -- Surf's up for Einstein wave astronomy
Author |
: Leonard Parker |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 472 |
Release |
: 2009-08-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139480857 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139480855 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime by : Leonard Parker
Quantum field theory in curved spacetime has been remarkably fruitful. It can be used to explain how the large-scale structure of the universe and the anisotropies of the cosmic background radiation that we observe today first arose. Similarly, it provides a deep connection between general relativity, thermodynamics, and quantum field theory. This book develops quantum field theory in curved spacetime in a pedagogical style, suitable for graduate students. The authors present detailed, physically motivated, derivations of cosmological and black hole processes in which curved spacetime plays a key role. They explain how such processes in the rapidly expanding early universe leave observable consequences today, and how in the context of evaporating black holes, these processes uncover deep connections between gravitation and elementary particles. The authors also lucidly describe many other aspects of free and interacting quantized fields in curved spacetime.
Author |
: C. R. Kitchin |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 422 |
Release |
: 2021-09-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030742072 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030742075 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Gravitational Waves by : C. R. Kitchin
The birth of a completely new branch of observational astronomy is a rare and exciting occurrence. For a long time, our theories about gravitational waves—proposed by Albert Einstein and others more than a hundred years ago—could never be fully proven, since we lacked the proper technology to do it. That all changed when, on September 14, 2015, instruments at the LIGO Observatory detected gravitational waves for the first time. This book explores the nature of gravitational waves—what they are, where they come from, why they are so significant and why nobody could prove they existed before now. Written in plain language and interspersed with additional explanatory tutorials, it will appeal to lay readers, science enthusiasts, physical science students, amateur astronomers and to professional scientists and astronomers.
Author |
: Stephen R. Taylor |
Publisher |
: CRC Press |
Total Pages |
: 147 |
Release |
: 2021-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000484786 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000484785 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy by : Stephen R. Taylor
Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy explores the exciting hunt for low frequency gravitational waves by using the extraordinary timing precision of pulsars. The book takes the reader on a tour across the expansive gravitational-wave landscape, from LIGO detections to the search for polarization patterns in the Cosmic Microwave Background, then hones in on the band of nanohertz frequencies that Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are sensitive to. Within this band may lie many pairs of the most massive black holes in the entire Universe, all radiating in chorus to produce a background of gravitational waves. The book shows how such extra-Galactic gravitational waves can alter the arrival times of radio pulses emanating from monitored Galactic pulsars, and how we can use the pattern of correlated timing deviations from many pulsars to tease out the elusive signal. The book takes a pragmatic approach to data analysis, explaining how it is performed in practice within classical and Bayesian statistics, as well as the numerous strategies one can use to optimize numerical Bayesian searches in PTA analyses. It closes with a complete discussion of the data model for nanohertz gravitational wave searches, and an overview of the past achievements, present efforts, and future prospects for PTAs. The book is accessible to upper division undergraduate students and graduate students of astronomy, and also serves as a useful desk reference for experts in the field. Key features: Contains a complete derivation of the pulsar timing response to gravitational waves, and the overlap reduction function for PTAs. Presents a comprehensive overview of source astrophysics, and the dynamical influences that shape the gravitational wave signals that PTAs are sensitive to. Serves as a detailed primer on gravitational-wave data analysis and numerical Bayesian techniques for PTAs.
Author |
: Carlos F. Sopuerta |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2014-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319104881 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319104888 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gravitational Wave Astrophysics by : Carlos F. Sopuerta
This book offers review chapters written by invited speakers of the 3rd Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics - Gravitational Waves Astrophysics. All chapters have been peer reviewed. The book goes beyond normal conference proceedings in that it provides a wide panorama of the astrophysics of gravitational waves and serves as a reference work for researchers in the field.
Author |
: Michele Maggiore |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 573 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198570745 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198570740 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gravitational Waves by : Michele Maggiore
The two volumes of 'Gravitational Waves' provide a comprehensive and detailed account of the physics of gravitational waves. Volume 2 discusses what can be learned from gravitational waves in astrophysics and in cosmology, by systematising a large body of theoretical developments that have taken place over the last decades.