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Gravitational-wave astronomy : exploring the dark side of the Universe

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: Oxford Oxford 2020Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 665 p. illustrations (colour)ISBN:
  • 9780198568032
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Contents:
Opening the window -- From theory to experiment -- A brief survey of general relativity -- Gravitational waves -- From black holes to stars and the universe at large -- Binary inspiral -- Spinning stars and cosmic recycling -- Catching the wave -- Mining the data -- The dark side of the universe -- The stellar graveyard -- Testing relativity -- Beyond Newton -- Towards the extreme -- From oscillations to instabilities -- Building mountains -- The r-mode instability -- Black hole dynamics -- Spinning black holes -- Relativistic astroseismology -- Colliding black holes -- Cosmic fireworks -- Anatomy of a merger -- Whispers of the Big Bang.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Opening the window -- From theory to experiment -- A brief survey of general relativity -- Gravitational waves -- From black holes to stars and the universe at large -- Binary inspiral -- Spinning stars and cosmic recycling -- Catching the wave -- Mining the data -- The dark side of the universe -- The stellar graveyard -- Testing relativity -- Beyond Newton -- Towards the extreme -- From oscillations to instabilities -- Building mountains -- The r-mode instability -- Black hole dynamics -- Spinning black holes -- Relativistic astroseismology -- Colliding black holes -- Cosmic fireworks -- Anatomy of a merger -- Whispers of the Big Bang.

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