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008 190709s2020 enka b 001 0 eng d
020 _a9780198568032
041 _aeng
080 _a523
_bAND
100 1 _aAndersson, Nils,
245 1 0 _aGravitational-wave astronomy :
_bexploring the dark side of the Universe
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aOxford
_bOxford
_c2020
300 _axii, 665 p.
_billustrations (colour) ;
490 1 _aOxford graduate texts
500 _aEnglish
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aOpening 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.
546 _aeng
650 0 _aGravitational waves.
650 0 _aAstronomy.
690 _aPhysics
942 _cBK