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Black Holes: Theory and Observation

Proceedings of the 179th W.E. Heraeus Seminar Held at Bad Honnef, Germany, 18–22 August 1997

  • This book brings together theory and observations in a unique way.

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 514)

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Table of contents (23 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Black Holes: A General Introduction

    • Jean-Pierre Luminet
    Pages 3-34
  3. Broad Iron Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei: A Possible Test of the Kerr Metric?

    • Jörn Wilms, Roland Speith, Christopher S. Reynolds
    Pages 69-79
  4. The Membrane Model of Black Holes and Applications

    • Norbert Straumann
    Pages 111-156
  5. Uniqueness Theorems for Black Hole Space-Times

    • Markus Heusler
    Pages 157-186
  6. Black Hole Hair: A Review

    • Darío Núñiez, Hernando Quevedo, Daniel Sudarsky
    Pages 187-198
  7. Numerical Approach to Black Holes

    • Edward Seidel
    Pages 244-266
  8. Measurement Theory and General Relativity

    • Bahram Mashhoon
    Pages 269-284
  9. Boson Stars in the Centre of Galaxies?

    • Franz E. Schunck, Andrew R. Liddle
    Pages 285-288
  10. Black Holes in Two Dimensions

    • Yuri N. Obukhov, Friedrich W. Hehl
    Pages 289-316
  11. Black Hole Thermodynamics

    • Gernot Neugebauer
    Pages 319-338
  12. Internal Structure of Black Holes

    • Werner Israel
    Pages 364-382
  13. Quantum Fields near Black Holes

    • Andreas Wipf
    Pages 385-415

About this book

This book addresses graduate students in the first place and is meant as a modern compendium to the existing texts on black hole astrophysics. The authors present in pedagogically written articles our present knowledge on black holes covering mathematical models including numerical aspects and physics and astronomical observations as well. In addition, in their write-up of a panel discussion the participants of the school address the existence of black holes consenting that it has by now been verified with certainty.

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"... a broad comprehensive introduction and up-to-date overview of all main aspects of black hole physics are given in this volume."
Review of Astonomical Tools, 1999

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Black Holes: Theory and Observation

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 179th W.E. Heraeus Seminar Held at Bad Honnef, Germany, 18–22 August 1997

  • Editors: Friedrich W. Hehl, Claus Kiefer, Ralph J.K. Metzler

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b13593

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-65158-1Published: 26 November 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-14175-5Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-49535-2Published: 16 July 2003

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8450

  • Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 519

  • Number of Illustrations: 106 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory

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