The sounds of the cosmos gravitational waves and the birth of multi-messenger astronomy

The sounds of the cosmos gravitational waves and the birth of multi-messenger astronomy

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In 2016, the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations made headlines when they announced the detection of gravitational waves—a century after Albert Einstein first predicted their existence with his general theory of relativity. With unprecedented perspective as physicists at the forefront of this discovery, M...

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1. Verfasser: Díaz, Mario (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press [2023]
Schlagworte:
Multi-Messenger-Astronomie
Doppelstern
Gravitationswellendetektor
Pulsar
Weltall
LIGO > Astronomie
Gravitationswelle
Physikalische Theorie
Virgo > A
LIGO / Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
Neutronendoppelsterne
Hulse-Taylor Pulsar
Gravitational waves
Gravitational waves / Detection
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Gravity from the ancient Greeks to Newton
  • Einstein's special theory of relativity
  • The general theory of relativity
  • Gravitational waves : their long and difficult history
  • The life and death of stars
  • Astrophysical sources of gravitational radiation
  • Numerical relativity
  • A brief history of terrestrial gravitational wave detectors
  • The technology of LIGO
  • At last: detections
  • and many!
  • The birth of GW multi-messenger astronomy
  • The future

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