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  • Gravitational Waves: Volume 2: Astrophysics and Cosmology

    Gravitational Waves by Maggiore, Michele;

    Volume 2: Astrophysics and Cosmology

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 22 March 2018

    • ISBN 9780198570899
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages848 pages
    • Size 249x196x46 mm
    • Weight 2020 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 125 grayscale and 54 color line figures
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    Short description:

    The two volumes of Gravitational Waves provide a comprehensive and detailed account of the physics of gravitational waves. 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.

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    Long description:

    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.

    The book covers a staggering breadth of material and is extremely useful as a bird's-eye overview of the field... From now on I will recommend it as the best entry point for students who want to join this blooming research field

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    Table of Contents:

    III: Astrophysical Sources of GWs
    Stellar collapse
    Neutron stars
    Black-hole perturbation theory
    Properties of dynamical space-times
    GWs from coalescing compact binaries. Theory
    IV: Cosmology and Gravitational Waves
    Basics of FRW cosmology
    Helicity decomposition of the metric perturbations
    Evolution of cosmological perturbations
    The imprint of GWs on the CMB
    Inflation and primordial perturbations
    Stochastic backgrounds of cosmological origin
    Stochastic backgrounds and pulsar timing arrays

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