Gravitational Radiation, Collapsed Objects and Exact Solutions

Proceedings of the Einstein Centenary Summer School, Held in Perth, Australia, January 1979

500 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Gravitational radiation and the binary pulsar.- Supernovae - observations and conventional interpretations.- Supernovae - Current areas of research.- Pulsars.- The gamma ray sky at high energies. The role of pulsars as gamma ray sources.- Compact radiation sources in active galactic nuclei.- Some aspects of supernova theory: Implosion, explosion and expansion.- The pulsar magnetosphere.- On the physics of Circinus X-1. I. Periodic flares in the X-ray, optical and radio regimes.- On the physics of Circinus X-1. II. Eccentricity, mass transfer rates, secular orbital effects, possible ?-ray burst, and a possible origin for circinus X-1.- Einstein and gravitational radiation.- Gravity wave antenna - transducer systems.- Parametric upconverter transducers.- Detection of gravitational radiation from pulsars.- Data analysis algorithms for gravitational antenna signals.- Sensitivity of a gravitational radiation antenna instrumented with dual mode transducer and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID).- Quantum non-demolition.- Gravitation experiments at Stanford.- Stationary axisymmetric gravitational fields: An asymptotic flatness preserving transformation.- Mechanical, electrodynamical and thermodynamical properties of black holes.- Electrovac perturbations of rotating black holes.- Symmetries and exact solutions of Einstein's equations.- Naked singularities.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics
• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Physik Klassische Mechanik Gravitation
• ISBN: 9783540099925
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.1980
• Größe: 244 x 170 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: C. Edwards