Gravitational Waves, pack: Volumes 1 and 2

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Autorentext

Michele Maggiore is Professor of Physics at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He served as President of the Physics Section at the University of Geneva until 2017.

Klappentext

This two-volume book is a comprehensive, detailed account of the physics of gravitational waves. While Vol. 1 is devoted to the theory and experiments, Vol. 2 discusses what can be learned from gravitational waves in astrophysics and cosmology by systematizing a large body of theoretical developments that have taken place over the last decades.

Zusammenfassung
The two-volume book Gravitational Waves provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the physics of gravitational waves. While Volume 1 is devoted to the theory and experiments, Volume 2 discusses what can be learned from gravitational waves in astrophysics and in cosmology, by systematizing a large body of theoretical developments that have taken place over the last decades. The second volume also includes a detailed discussion of the first direct detections of gravitational waves. In the author's typical style, the theoretical results are generally derived afresh, clarifying or streamlining the existing derivations whenever possible, and providing a coherent and consistent picture of the field. The first volume of Gravitational Waves, which appeared in 2007, has established itself as the standard reference in the field. The scientific community has eagerly awaited this second volume. The recent direct detection of gravitational waves makes the topics in this book particularly timely.

Inhalt

• I: Gravitational-wave theory

• 1: The geometric approach to GWs

• 2: The field-theoretical approach to GWs

• 3: Generation of GWs in linearized theory

• 4: Applications

• 5: GW generation by post-Newtonian sources

• 6: Experimental observation of GW emission in compact binaries

• II: Experiments

• 7: Data analysis techniques

• 8: Resonant-mass detectors

• 9: Interferometers

• III: Astrophysical Sources of GWs

• 10: Stellar collapse

• 11: Neutron stars

• 12: Black-hole perturbation theory

• 13: Properties of dynamical space-times

• 14: GWs from coalescing compact binaries. Theory

• 15: GWs from coalescing compact binaries. Observations

• 16: Supermassive Black Holes

• IV: Cosmology and Gravitational Waves

• 17: Basics of FRW cosmology

• 18: Helicity decomposition of the metric perturbations

• 19: Evolution of cosmological perturbations

• 20: The imprint of GWs on the CMB

• 21: Inflation and primordial perturbations

• 22: Stochastic backgrounds of cosmological origin

• 23: Stochastic backgrounds and pulsar timing arrays