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Black Holes, Gravitational Radiation and the Universe

Essays in Honor of C.V. Vishveshwara

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Bala R. Iyer

    1. Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India

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  2. Biplab Bhawal

    1. National Astronomical Observatory, TAMA Project, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

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Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics (FTPH, volume 100)

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Black Hole Equilibrium Problem

    • B. Carter
    Pages 1-16

  3. Stability of Black Holes

    • Bernard F. Whiting
    Pages 17-32

  4. Separability of Wave Equations

    • E. G. Kalnins, W. Miller Jr., G. C. Williams
    Pages 33-52

  5. Energy-Conservation Laws for Perturbed Stars and Black Holes

    • V. Ferrari
    Pages 53-68

  6. Gravitational Collapse and Cosmic Censorship

    • Robert M. Wald
    Pages 69-86

  7. Disturbing the Black Hole

    • Jacob D. Bekenstein
    Pages 87-102

  8. Notes on Black Hole Fluctuations and Back-Reaction

    • B. L. Hu, Alpan Raval, Sukanya Sinha
    Pages 103-120

  9. Black Holes in Higher Curvature Gravity

    • R. C. Myers
    Pages 121-136

  10. Micro-Structure of Black Holes and String Theory

    • Spenta R. Wadia
    Pages 137-148

  11. Quantum Geometry and Black Holes

    • Abhay Ashtekar, Kirill Krasnov
    Pages 149-170

  12. Black Holes, Global Monopole Charge and Quasi-Local Energy

    • Naresh Dadhich
    Pages 171-188

  13. Kinematical Consequences of Inertial Forces in General Relativity

    • A. R. Prasanna, Sai Iyer
    Pages 189-206

  14. Gyroscopic Precession and Inertial Forces

    • K. Rajesh Nayak
    Pages 207-218

  15. Analysis of the Equilibrium of a Charged Test Particle in the Kerr-Newman Black Hole

    • J. M. Aguirregabiria, A. Chamorro, J. Suinaga
    Pages 219-234

  16. Neutron Stars and Relativistic Gravity

    • M. Vivekanand
    Pages 235-248

  17. Accretion Disks Around Black Holes

    • Paul J. Wiita
    Pages 249-264

  18. Astrophysical Evidence for Black Hole Event Horizons

    • K. Menou, E. Quataert, R. Narayan
    Pages 265-288

  19. Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei

    • Ajit K. Kembhavi
    Pages 289-308

  20. Energetic Photon Spectra as Probes of the Process of Particle Acceleration in Accretion Flows Around Black Holes

    • R. Cowsik
    Pages 309-318
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About this book

Our esteemed colleague C. V. Vishveshwara, popularly known as Vishu, turned sixty on 6th March 1998. His colleagues and well wishers felt that it would be appropriate to celebrate the occasion by bringing out a volume in his honour. Those of us who have had the good fortune to know Vishu, know that he is unique, in a class by himself. Having been given the privilege to be the volume's editors, we felt that we should attempt something different in this endeavour. Vishu is one of the well known relativists from India whose pioneer­ ing contributions to the studies of black holes is universally recognised. He was a student of Charles Misner. His Ph. D. thesis on the stability of the Schwarzschild black hole, coordinate invariant characterisation of the sta­ tionary limit and event horizon for Kerr black holes and subsequent seminal work on quasi-normal modes of black holes have passed on to become the starting points for detailed mathematical investigations on the nature of black holes. He later worked on other aspects related to black holes and compact objects. Many of these topics have matured over the last thirty years. New facets have also developed and become current areas of vigorous research interest. No longer are black holes, ultracompact objects or event horizons mere idealisations of mathematical physicists but concrete entities that astrophysicists detect, measure and look for. Astrophysical evidence is mounting up steadily for black holes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India

    Bala R. Iyer

  • National Astronomical Observatory, TAMA Project, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

    Biplab Bhawal

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