TY - BOOK ID - 67803848 TI - Gravitational radiation, luminous black holes, and gamma-ray burst supernovae PY - 2005 SN - 9780521849609 0521849608 9780511535260 9780521143615 0511126204 9780511126208 9780511124068 0511124066 0511125348 9780511125348 1280449241 9781280449246 0511535260 0521143616 1107153352 9786610449248 0511182287 0511199708 0511300263 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Black holes (Astronomy). KW - Gravitational waves. KW - Supernovae. KW - Black holes (Astronomy) KW - Supernovas KW - Cataclysmic variable stars KW - X-ray sources, Galactic KW - Gravitational radiation KW - Gravity waves (Astrophysics) KW - General relativity (Physics) KW - Gravitational fields KW - Radiation KW - Waves KW - Frozen stars KW - Compact objects (Astronomy) KW - Gravitational collapse KW - Stars UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67803848 AB - Black holes and gravitational radiation are two of the most dramatic predictions of general relativity. The quest for rotating black holes - discovered by Roy P. Kerr as exact solutions to the Einstein equations - is one of the most exciting challenges facing physicists and astronomers. Gravitational Radiation, Luminous Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Burst Supernovae takes the reader through the theory of gravitational radiation and rotating black holes, and the phenomenology of GRB-supernovae. Topics covered include Kerr black holes and the frame-dragging of spacetime, luminous black holes, compact tori around black holes, and black-hole spin interactions. It concludes with a discussion of prospects for gravitational-wave detections of a long-duration burst in gravitational-waves as a method of choice for identifying Kerr black holes in the Universe. This book is ideal for a special topics graduate course on gravitational-wave astronomy and as an introduction to those interested in this contemporary development in physics. ER -