Gravitational Radiation, Collapsed Objects and Exact Solutions - Proceedings of the Einstein Centenary Summer School, Held in Perth, Australia, January 1979

List of contents

Gravitational radiation and the binary pulsar.- Supernovae - observations and conventional interpretations.- Supernovae - Current areas of research.- Pulsars.- The gamma ray sky at high energies. The role of pulsars as gamma ray sources.- Compact radiation sources in active galactic nuclei.- Some aspects of supernova theory: Implosion, explosion and expansion.- The pulsar magnetosphere.- On the physics of Circinus X-1. I. Periodic flares in the X-ray, optical and radio regimes.- On the physics of Circinus X-1. II. Eccentricity, mass transfer rates, secular orbital effects, possible ?-ray burst, and a possible origin for circinus X-1.- Einstein and gravitational radiation.- Gravity wave antenna - transducer systems.- Parametric upconverter transducers.- Detection of gravitational radiation from pulsars.- Data analysis algorithms for gravitational antenna signals.- Sensitivity of a gravitational radiation antenna instrumented with dual mode transducer and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID).- Quantum non-demolition.- Gravitation experiments at Stanford.- Stationary axisymmetric gravitational fields: An asymptotic flatness preserving transformation.- Mechanical, electrodynamical and thermodynamical properties of black holes.- Electrovac perturbations of rotating black holes.- Symmetries and exact solutions of Einstein's equations.- Naked singularities.

Product details

• Assisted by: Edwards (Editor), C Edwards (Editor), C. Edwards (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1980
• EAN: 9783540099925
• ISBN: 978-3-540-09992-5
• No. of pages: 491
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 246 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 853 g
• Illustrations: VI, 491 p. 26 illus.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics; Lecture Notes in Physics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics