Overview
- Presents award-winning thesis work with a foreword by supervisor Professor Avi Loeb at Harvard University
- Provides a thorough introduction to a specialized topic, enabling readers with a general undergraduate physics education to quickly grasp the basics of stellar tidal disruption
- Offers new ways in which observers can use tidal disruption events to learn about supermassive black holes and to probe general relativistic effects (e.g., black hole spin) in their vicinity
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Book Title: The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes
Book Subtitle: An Analytic Approach
Authors: Nicholas Chamberlain Stone
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12676-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12675-3Published: 05 January 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34527-7Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12676-0Published: 13 December 2014
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 154
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)