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Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy
An Introduction to Theory, Experiment and Data Analysis, Wiley Series in Cosmology
ISBN/EAN: 9783527408863
Umbreit-Nr.: 1707816
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: XXII, 359 S., 41 s/w Illustr., 9 s/w Tab., 50 Illu
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 07.09.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabeIntroduction Prologue: Tides in Newton's gravity/Relativity 1. A brief review of General Relativity 2. Gravitational waves 3. Beyond the Newtonian limit 4. Sources of gravitational radiation 5. Gravitational wave detectors 6. Gravitational wave data analysis Epilogue: Gravitational wave astronomy and astrophysics A. Gravitational wave detector data B. PostNewtonian Binary Inspiral Waveform
- Autorenportrait
- Jolien D. E. Creighton is an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee and a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which he joined in 1998. He received his doctoral degree at the University of Waterloo where he studied the thermodynamical properties of black holes. Warren G. Anderson is a scientist at the University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee and a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which he joined in 1998. He received his doctorate at the University of Alberta under Werner Israel, where he worked on Black Hole physics, and has also held a tenure track position at The University of Texas at Brownsville. He also received Master's degrees in Medical Physics (University of Alberta) and Applied Mathematics (University of Waterloo).