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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 November 2025
- ISBN 9780198989097
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages688 pages
- Size 246x171 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 116 color and 51 grayscale line figures; 1 color halftone 700
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Short description:
This introduction to gravitational waves and related astrophysics provides a bridge across the range of astronomy, physics and cosmology that comes into play when trying to understand the gravitational-wave sky. Key ideas are developed step by step, leading up to the technology that caught these faint whispers from the distant universe.
MoreLong description:
This book is an introduction to gravitational waves and related astrophysics. It provides a bridge across the range of astronomy, physics, and cosmology that comes into play when trying to understand the gravitational-wave sky. Starting with Einstein's theory of gravity, chapters develop the key ideas step by step, leading up to the technology that finally caught these faint whispers from the distant Universe. The second part of the book makes a direct connection with current research, introducing the relevant language and making the involved concepts less 'mysterious'. The book is intended to work as a platform, low enough that anyone with an interest in gravitational waves can scramble onto it, but at the same time high enough to connect readers with active research-and the many exciting discoveries that are happening right now.
This book is a wonderful introduction to one of the most exciting research areas in modern physics (gravitational wave astronomy) written by a leading expert on the structure and dynamics of black holes and neutron stars....The book is an excellent resource for students and for researchers working in specific areas (general relativity, astronomy, data analysis, nuclear and particle physics) who may want to put their work in a broader context.
Table of Contents:
Opening the window
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 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 asteroseismology
Colliding black holes
Cosmic Fireworks
Anatomy of a merger
Whispers from the Big Bang
