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Gravitational-wave astronomy : exploring the dark side of the Universe / Nils Andersson, Mathematical Sciences and STAG Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

By: Andersson, Nils, (Astrophysicist) [author.].
Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford graduate texts: Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2020Edition: First edition.Description: xii, 665 pages : UKP 60.00 illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0198568037; 9780198568032.Subject(s): Gravitational waves | Astronomy | Astronomy | Gravitational wavesDDC classification: 523.019754
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.
List(s) this item appears in: 2020-03-06
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Book Chennai Mathematical Institute
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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.