Gravitational waves. Volume 1, Theory and experiments / Michele Maggiore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maggiore, Michele, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gravitational waves.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (573 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The aim of this book is to become a major reference text for gravitational-wave physics, covering in detail both the experimental and the theoretical aspects. It is the only existing book on gravitational waves. It brings the reader to the forefront of present-day research, and assumes no previous knowledge of gravitational-wave physics.

Contents:

Cover ; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Notation; Part I Gravitational-wave theory; 1 The geometric approach to GWs; 1.1 Expansion around at space; 1.2 The transverse-traceless gauge; 1.3 Interaction of GWs with test masses; 1.3.1 Geodesic equation and geodesic deviation; 1.3.2 Local inertial frames and freely falling frames; 1.3.3 TT frame and proper detector frame; 1.4 The energy of GWs; 1.4.1 Separation of GWs from the background; 1.4.2 How GWs curve the background; 1.4.3 The energy-momentum tensor of GWs; 1.5 Propagation in curved space-time

1.5.1 Geometric optics in curved space1.5.2 Absorption and scattering of GWs; 1.6 Solved problems; 1.1. Linearization of the Riemann tensor in curved space; 1.2. Gauge transformation of hμν and R(1) μνρσ; Further reading; 2 The field-theoretical approach to GWs; 2.1 Linearized gravity as a classical eld theory; 2.1.1 Noether's theorem; 2.1.2 The energ-momentum tensor of GWs; 2.1.3 The angular momentum of GWs; 2.2 Gravitons; 2.2.1 Why a spin-2 field?; 2.2.2 The Pauli-Fierz action; 2.2.3 From gravitons to gravity; 2.2.4 E ective field theories and the Planck scale; 2.3 Massive gravitons

2.3.1 Phenomenological bounds2.3.2 Field theory of massive gravitons; 2.4 Solved problems; 2.1. The helicity of gravitons; 2.2. Angular momentum and parity of graviton states; Further reading; 3 Generation of GWs in linearized theory; 3.1 Weakeld sources with arbitrary velocity; 3.2 Low-velocity expansion; 3.3 Mass quadrupole radiation; 3.3.1 Amplitude and angular distribution; 3.3.2 Radiated energy; 3.3.3 Radiated angular momentum; 3.3.4 Radiation reaction on non-relativistic sources; 3.3.5 Radiation from a closed system of point masses; 3.4 Mass octupole and current quadrupole

4.1.2 Elliptic orbits. (I) Total power and frequency spectrum of the radiation emitted4.1.3 Elliptic orbits. (II) Evolution of the orbit under back-reaction; 4.1.4 Binaries at cosmological distances; 4.2 Radiation from rotating rigid bodies; 4.2.1 GWs from rotation around a principal axis; 4.2.2 GWs from freely precessing rigid bodies; 4.3 Radial infall into a black hole; 4.3.1 Radiation from an infalling point-like mass; 4.3.2 Tidal disruption of a real star falling into a black hole. Coherent and incoherent radiation; 4.4 Radiation from accelerated masses

4.4.1 GWs produced in elastic collisions

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from pdf title page (ebrary, viewed October 14, 2016).

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ISBN:

0-19-152474-3

OCLC:

319064125