Rotating Relativistic Stars

Informationen zum Autor John Friedman is a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, he recently served as Chair of its gravitational physics section. He has been on the editorial boards of Classical and Quantum Gravity and Physical Review D, and was a divisional associate editor of Physical Review Letters. His awards include the Telegdi Prize and the Marc Perry Galler Award. Klappentext This volume provides the first self-contained treatment of the structure, stability and oscillations of rotating neutron stars. Zusammenfassung This volume pulls together more than forty years of research! to provide graduate students and researchers in astrophysics! gravitational physics and astronomy with the first self-contained treatment of the structure! stability and oscillations of rotating neutron stars. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Stationary, axisymmetric equilibria; 2. 3+1 split, action, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms; 3. Asymptotics, virial identities and nonaxisymmetric equilibria; 4. Numerical schemes; 5. Equilibrium models; 6. Approximation methods; 7. Perturbation theory of relativistic fluids; 8. Quasinormal modes; 9. Stellar stability; 10. Nonlinear dynamics of rotating relativistic stars; Appendix.

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• Authors: John L. Friedman, John L. (University of Wisconsin Friedman, John L. Stergioulas Friedman, Nikolaos Stergioulas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2013
• EAN: 9780521872546
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87254-6
• No. of pages: 429
• Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics; Cambridge Monographs on Mathem; Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics; Cambridge Monographs on Mathem
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous