Gravitational Waves

List of contents

Gravitational waves, theory and experiment (an overview). Part 1 Gravitational waves, sources and detectors (B F Schutz and F Ricci): Elements of gravitational waves. Gravitational wave detectors. Astrophysics of gravitational wave sources. Waves and energy. Mass- and current-quadrupole radiation. Source calculations. Part 2 Gravitational wave detectors (G Pizzella et al): Resonant detectors for gravitational waves and their bandwidth. The Earth based large interferometer Virgo and the low frequency facility. Detection of scalar gravitational waves. Part 3 The stachastic gravitational wave background (D Babusci, et al): Generalities of stachastic GW background. Sources of SGWB. Part 4 Theoretical developments (H Nicolai et al): Infinite dimensional symmetries in gravity. Gyroscopes and gravitational waves. Elementary introduction to pre-big bang cosmology and to the relic graviton background. Post-Newtonian computation of binary inspiral waveforms. Part 5 Numerical relativity.

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I. Ciufolini, V. Gorini, U. Moschella, P Fre

Product details

• Authors: I. Gorini Ciufolini
• Assisted by: I. Ciufolini (Editor), P Fre (Editor), P. Fre (Editor), V. Gorini (Editor), U. Moschella (Editor), Moschella U. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367397609
• ISBN: 978-0-367-39760-9
• No. of pages: 412
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous; Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, Astronomy, space & time, Relativity physics, Astronomy, space and time, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy