TY - BOOK AU - Andersson,Nils TI - Gravitational-wave astronomy: exploring the dark side of the Universe T2 - Oxford graduate texts SN - 9780198568032 PY - 2020/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford KW - Gravitational waves KW - Astronomy N1 - English; 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 ER -