Current Trends in Relativistic Astrophysics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Relativistic Astrophysics

   1. Relativistic Astrophysics

      • Leonardo Fernández-Jambrina, Luis Manuel González-Romero

      Pages 1-12

3. Black Holes:Theory, Evolution, Accretion and Stability

   1. Black Hole Thermodynamics

      • Werner Israel

      Pages 15-49

   2. Perturbations of Black Holes

      • Valeria Ferrari

      Pages 50-67

   3. Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse: The Role of Angular Momentum

      • José M. Martín-García, Carsten Gundlach

      Pages 68-86

4. Numerical and Perturbative Analysis of Astrophysical Processes

   1. Stellar Perturbations

      • Valeria Ferrari

      Pages 89-112

   2. Numerical Relativistic Hydrodynamics

      • José María Ibáñez

      Pages 113-129

   3. Flux Limiter Methods in 3D Numerical Relativity

      • Carles Bona, Carlos Palenzuela

      Pages 130-139

   4. Gauge Conditions for Long-Term Numerical Black Hole Evolution With or Without Excision

      • Miguel Alcubierre, Bernd Brügmann, Denis Pollney, Edward Seidel, Ryoji Takahashi

      Pages 140-158

   5. Numerical Relativity with the Conformal Field Equations

      • Sascha Husa

      Pages 159-192

5. Gravitational Waves:Production and Detection

   1. Binary Black Holes and Gravitational Wave Production: Post-Newtonian Analytic Treatment

      • Gerhard Schäfer

      Pages 195-209

   2. The Detection of Gravitational Waves

      • J. Alberto Lobo

      Pages 210-241

6. Other Topics

   1. Structure of Conformal Lorentz Transformations

      • Göran Bergqvist, José M. M. Senovilla

      Pages 245-251

   2. Circularity Conditions on Stationary Axisymmetric Einstein-Yang-Mills Fields

      • Francisco Javier Chinea, Francisco Navarro-Lérida

      Pages 252-260

   3. The Shortest Cut in Brane Cosmology

      • Elcio Abdalla, Bertha Cuadros-Melgar, Cze-Shiang Feng, Bin Wang

      Pages 261-276

   4. Weak Energy Condition Violation and Superluminal Travel

      • Francisco Lobo, Paulo Crawford

      Pages 277-291

   5. Factor Structure of Rational Vacuum Metrics and a Generalization of the Tomimatsu-Sato Solutions

      • Cornelius A. Hoenselaers

      Pages 292-301

   6. An Anisotropic Cosmological Model with Isotropic Background Radiation

      • Saulo Carneiro, Guillermo A. Mena Marugán

      Pages 302-305

   7. Lorentzian Comments on Stokes Parameters

      • Juan Antonio Morales, Emilio Navarro

      Pages 306-314

   8. Causal Transformations

      • Alfonso García-Parrado, José M. M. Senovilla

      Pages 315-329

The present volume contains the expanded lectures of a meeting on relativistic astrophysics, the goal of which was to provide a modern introduction to specific aspects of the field for young researchers, as well as for nonspecialists from related areas. Particular emphasis is placed on the theory of black holes and evolution, relativistic stars and jet hydrodynamics, as well as the production and detection of gravitational waves. The book is complemented by further contributions and animation supplied on the accompanying CD-ROM.

• Accretion
• Cosmology
• Gravity
• Lorentz transformation
• astrophysics
• black holes
• numerical relativity
• relativistic astrophysics
• relativity
• thermodynamics

• E.T.S.I.Navales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  Leonardo Fernández-Jambrina

• Fac. Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Compluense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  Luis Manuel González-Romero

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