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Astrophysical Black Holes

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Editors:
  1. Francesco Haardt

    1. Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italy

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  2. Vittorio Gorini

    1. Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italy

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  3. Ugo Moschella

    1. Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italy

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  4. Aldo Treves

    1. Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italy

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  5. Monica Colpi

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

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  • 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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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. An Introduction to Astrophysical Black Holes and Their Dynamical Production

    • Luciano Rezzolla
    Pages 1-44

  3. Warp Propagation in Astrophysical Discs

    • Chris Nixon, Andrew King
    Pages 45-63

  4. The Balance of Power: Accretion and Feedback in Stellar Mass Black Holes

    • Rob Fender, Teo Muñoz-Darias
    Pages 65-100

  5. Observing Supermassive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time: From Phenomenology to Physics

    • Andrea Merloni
    Pages 101-143

  6. Orbital Motion in Galactic Nuclei

    • David Merritt
    Pages 145-203

  7. Star Formation and Dynamics in the Galactic Centre

    • Michela Mapelli, Alessia Gualandris
    Pages 205-272

  8. The Effective-One-Body Approach to the General Relativistic Two Body Problem

    • Thibault Damour, Alessandro Nagar
    Pages 273-312

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 313-314
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About this book

Based on graduate school lectures in contemporary relativity and gravitational physics, this book gives a complete and unified picture of the present status of theoretical and observational properties of astrophysical black holes. The chapters are written by internationally recognized specialists. They cover general theoretical aspects of black hole astrophysics, the theory of accretion and ejection of gas and jets, stellar-sized black holes observed in the Milky Way, the formation and evolution of supermassive black holes in galactic centers and quasars as well as their influence on the dynamics in galactic nuclei. The final chapter addresses analytical relativity of black holes supporting theoretical understanding of the coalescence of black holes as well as being of great relevance in identifying gravitational wave signals.
With its introductory chapters the book is aimed at advanced graduate and post-graduate students, but it will also be useful for specialists.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italy

    Francesco Haardt, Vittorio Gorini, Ugo Moschella, Aldo Treves

  • Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

    Monica Colpi

About the editors

The editors and the chapter authors are all internationally well-known and highly reputable specialists in the field of black hole astrophysics.

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