Relativistic Astrophysics of the Transient Universe
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Relativistic Astrophysics of the Transient Universe

Gravitation, Hydrodynamics and Radiation

  1. 356 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Relativistic Astrophysics of the Transient Universe

Gravitation, Hydrodynamics and Radiation

About this book

In this decade, the transient universe will be mapped out in great detail by the emerging wide-field multiwavelength surveys, and neutrino and gravitational-wave detectors, promising to probe the astronomical and physical origin of the most extreme relativistic sources. This volume introduces the physical processes relevant to the source modeling of the transient universe. Ideal for graduate students and researchers in astrophysics, this book gives a unified treatment of relativistic flows associated with compact objects, their dissipation and emission in electromagnetic, hadronic and gravitational radiation. After introducing the source classes, the authors set out various mechanisms for creating magnetohydodynamic outflows in winds, jets and blast waves and their radiation properties. They then go on to discuss properties of accretion flows around rotating black holes and their gravitational wave emission from wave instabilites with implications for the emerging gravitational wave experiments. Graduate students and researchers can gain an understanding of data analysis for gravitational-wave data.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781107010734
eBook ISBN
9781139512244
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Astronomy & Astrophysics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS OF THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Notation
  10. Quotation acknowledgements
  11. 1: A zoo of astrophysical transient sources
  12. 2: Electromagnetic radiation processes
  13. 3: Curved spacetime and gravitational waves
  14. 4: Hadronic processes and neutrino emissions
  15. 5: Relativistic fluid dynamics
  16. 6: Winds and jets
  17. 7: Relativistic shock waves
  18. 8: Relativistic blast waves
  19. 9: Accretion disks and tori
  20. 10: Entropic attraction in black hole binaries
  21. 11: Transient sources from rotating black holes
  22. 12: Searching for long bursts in gravitational waves
  23. 13: Epilogue: the multimessenger Transient Universe
  24. Appendix A: Some properties of Kerr black holes
  25. Appendix B: Cosmological event rates
  26. Appendix C: Relaxation limited evaporation
  27. Appendix D: Some units and constants
  28. References
  29. Index

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