Overview
- Offers a complete and unified picture of the status of theoretical and observational research on astrophysical black holes
- Provides a chapter on analytical relativity of black holes which plays an important role in identifying signals of gravitational waves emitted by black holes
- Based on graduate school lectures in contemporary relativity and gravitational physics
- All chapters written by leading specialists in black hole astrophysics
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 905)
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About this book
With its introductory chapters the book is aimed at advanced graduate and post-graduate students, but it will also be useful for specialists.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Astrophysical Black Holes
Editors: Francesco Haardt, Vittorio Gorini, Ugo Moschella, Aldo Treves, Monica Colpi
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19416-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19415-8Published: 10 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19416-5Published: 03 November 2015
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 314
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 88 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory