Gravitational-wave astronomy exploring the dark side of the Universe / Nils Andersson, Mathematical Sciences and STAG Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
| Author/creator | Andersson, Nils |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2020. |
| Description | xii, 665 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Series | Oxford graduate texts Oxford graduate texts. ^A585027 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019945425 |
| ISBN | 0198568037 hardback |
| ISBN | 9780198568032 hardback |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |