Overview
- Provides the mathematical tools to compute some key-features in the X-ray spectrum of black holes
- Contains calculations and analytical details in the appendix
- Offers exercises and examples for students to learn by doing
- Discusses the leading techniques to probe the strong gravitational field near black holes
- Serves as both a study text for graduate students or beginners, as well as a reference work for researchers in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basic Concepts
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Front Matter
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Main Tools for Testing Astrophysical Black Holes
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Front Matter
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Testing the Kerr Paradigm
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Back Matter
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About this book
This textbook introduces the current astrophysical observations of black holes, and discusses the leading techniques to study the strong gravity region around these objects with electromagnetic radiation. More importantly, it provides the basic tools for writing an astrophysical code and testing the Kerr paradigm. Astrophysical black holes are an ideal laboratory for testing strong gravity. According to general relativity, the spacetime geometry around these objects should be well described by the Kerr solution. The electromagnetic radiation emitted by the gas in the inner part of the accretion disk can probe the metric of the strong gravity region and test the Kerr black hole hypothesis. With exercises and examples in each chapter, as well as calculations and analytical details in the appendix, the book is especially useful to the beginners or graduate students who are familiar with general relativity while they do not have any background in astronomy or astrophysics.<
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Black Holes: A Laboratory for Testing Strong Gravity
Authors: Cosimo Bambi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4524-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4523-3Published: 13 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5158-7Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4524-0Published: 01 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 340
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 117 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory