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Relativistic Astrophysics

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Harald Riffert
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  2. Hanns Ruder
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  3. Hans-Peter Nollert
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  4. Friedrich W. Hehl
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. General Relativity as a Tool for Astrophysics

    • Jürgen Ehlers
    Pages 1-15

  3. Cosmological Dark Matter as Seen with Weak Gravitational Lensing

    • Peter Schneider
    Pages 16-32

  4. Gravitational Microlensing: Machos and Quasars

    • Joachim Wambsganss
    Pages 33-47

  5. Laser-Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors — on the Ground and in Deep Space

    • Karsten Danzmann
    Pages 48-65

  6. Light Deflection Near Neutron Stars

    • Ute Kraus
    Pages 66-81

  7. Magnetohydrodynamics of Rotating Black Holes

    • Max Camenzind
    Pages 82-119

  8. Thin Accretion Disks around Black Holes

    • Harald Riffert
    Pages 120-138

  9. Low-Frequency Oscillations of Relativistic Accretion Disks

    • James R. Ipser
    Pages 139-147

  10. Relativistic Radiation Hydrodynamics and Shocks in Gamma-Ray Bursts

    • Peter Mészáros
    Pages 148-154

  11. Instabilities of Rotating Neutron Stars

    • Lee Lindblom
    Pages 155-172

  12. The Fate of Stars in the Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes

    • Pablo Laguna
    Pages 173-180

  13. Newtonian and Post-Newtonian Calculations of Coalescing Compact Binaries

    • Frederic A. Rasio
    Pages 181-195

  14. Quasinormal Ringdown: The Late Stage of Neutron Star Mergers

    • Hans-Peter Nollert
    Pages 196-228

  15. A General Relativistic Approach to Neutron Star Binary Evolution

    • Edward Seidel
    Pages 229-237

  16. A Forty-Year Search for the Hubble Constant

    • Gustav A. Tammann, Lukas Labhardt
    Pages 238-261

  17. Experimental Gravity

    • Michael Soffel
    Pages 262-280
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About this book

This book summarizes the lectures given at the 162. WE-Heraeus Seminar which took place in the house of the German Physical Society in Bad Honnefin August 1996. Already the number 162 shows the activity and effectiveness of the WE-Heraeus Foundation. We would like to express our thanks to Jutta Adam and Dr. Volker Schafer for the almost incredibly simple and unbureaucratical procedure of funding, organization and realization, and, of course, to the founders. Similar to the 152. WE-Heraeus Seminar Relativity and Scientific Computing (Springer Verlag 1996), this seminar was a joint venture of the Astronomical Society (AG) and of the Section 'Gravitation und Relativity Theory' of the German Physical Society (DPG). Since Einstein has developed his Theory of General Relativity more than 80 years ago, the situation has changed dramatically. In the first decades main efforts were untertaken for a better understanding and for the experimental verification of the theory. Mean­ while General Relativity (GR) is one of the experimentally best confirmed theories with 13 an accuracy better than 10- ! Consequently, GR has become a powerful tool for the investigation of cosmic processes where strong gravitational fields are involved. The state of the art of our knowledge is summarized by Jiirgen Ehlers in the first chapter. An impressive example of the change of the situation is the gravitational light deflection.

About the authors

Hans-Peter Nollert (Penn State University, USA), Harald Riffert (U Tübingen), Hanns Ruder (U Tübingen) und Friedrich W. Hehl (U Köln) forschen alle auf den verschiedenen Teilgebieten der Astrophysik.
Prof. Dr. Hanns Ruder ist außerdem Leiter der entsprechenden Fachgruppe der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Relativistic Astrophysics

  • Editors: Harald Riffert, Hanns Ruder, Hans-Peter Nollert, Friedrich W. Hehl

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11294-5

  • Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-663-11296-9Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-663-11294-5Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 280

  • Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Engineering, general

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