Gravitational Radiation, Luminous Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Burst Supernovae – Maurice H. P. M. van Putten
- Title: Gravitational Radiation, Luminous Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Burst Supernovae
- Author: Maurice H. P. M. van Putten
- Pages: 326 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (January 9, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521849608
- ISBN-13: 978-0521849609
Book Description
Black holes and gravitational radiation are two of the most dramatic predictions of general relativity. The quest for rotating black holes – discovered by Roy P. Kerr as exact solutions to the Einstein equations – is one of the most exciting challenges currently facing physicists and astronomers. Gravitational Radiation, Luminous Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Burst Supernovae takes the reader through the theory of gravitational radiation and rotating black holes, and the phenomenology of GRB-supernovae. Topics covered include Kerr black holes and the frame-dragging of spacetime, luminous black holes, compact tori around black holes, and black-hole spin interactions. It concludes with a discussion of prospects for gravitational-wave detections of a long-duration burst in gravitational-waves as a method of choice for identifying Kerr black holes in the Universe. This book is ideal for a special topics graduate course on gravitational-wave astronomy and as an introduction to those interested in this contemporary development in physics.
About the Author
Professor Maurice H. P. M. van Putten is a theoretical astrophysicist at the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) at MIT.
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