Black holes : proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland, April 23-26, 2007 / edited by Mario Livio, Anton Koekemoer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.). Symposium (2007 : Baltimore, Md.)

Contributor:

Koekemoer, Anton, editor.

Livio, Mario, 1945- editor.

Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.)

Series:

Space Telescope Science Institute symposium series ; 21.

Space Telescope Science Institute symposium series ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black holes (Astronomy).

Astrophysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 321 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Black holes, once considered to be of purely theoretical interest, play an important role in observational astronomy and a range of astrophysical phenomena. This volume is based on a meeting held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which explored the many aspects of black hole astrophysics. Written by world experts in areas of stellar-mass, intermediate-mass and supermassive black holes, these review papers provide an up-to-date overview of developments in this field. Topics discussed range from black hole entropy and the fate of information to supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, and from the possibility of producing black holes in collider experiments to the measurements of black hole spins. This is an invaluable resource for researchers currently working in the field, and for graduate students interested in this active and growing area of research.

Contents:

Black holes, entropy, and information / G.T. Horowitz

Gravitational waves from black-hole mergers / J.G. Baker [and others]

Out-of-this-world physics : black holes at future colliders / G. Landsberg

Black holes in globular clusters / S.L.W. McMillan

Evolution of massive black holes / M. Volonteri

Supermassive black holes indeep multiwavelength surveys / C.M. Urry & E. Treister

Black-hole masses from reverberation mapping / B.M. Peterson & M.C. Bentz

Black-hole masses from gas dynamics / F.D. Macchetto

Evolution of supermassive black holes / A. Müller & G. Hasinger

Black-hole masses of distant quasars / M. Vestergaard

The accretion history of supermassive black holes / K. Brand & the NDWFS Boötes Survey Teams

Strong field gravity and spin of black holes from broad iron lines / A.C. Fabian

Birth of massive black-hole binaries / M. Colpi [and others]

Dynamics around supermassive black holes / A. Gualandris & D. Merritt

Black-hole formation and growth / S.L. Shapiro

Estimating the spins of stellar-mass black holes / J.E. McClintock, R. Narayan & R. Shafee

Stellar relaxation processes near the galactic massive black hole / T. Alexander

Tidal disruptions of stars by supermassive black holes / S. Gezari

Where to look for radiatively inefficient accretion flows in low-luminosity AGN / M. Chiaberge

Making black holes visible / J.H. Krolik.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-107-22132-3

1-283-11275-2

9786613112750

1-139-07636-1

1-139-08318-X

1-139-07864-X

1-139-08091-1

0-511-79425-8

1-139-07063-0

OCLC:

723945784