Gravitational waves (Q2719294)

This book provides a comprehensive review of gravitational waves (GW). It includes a wide range of contributions by leading scientists in the field. It covers topics such as the basics of GW with some recent advanced topics, GW detectors, astrophysics of GW sources, numerical applications, and several recent theoretical developments. The material is written at a level suitable for postgraduate students entering the field. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEContents: Ignazio Ciufolini and Vittorio Gorini, Gravitational waves, theory and experiment (an overview) (1-10). Part 1: Gravitational waves, sources and detectors: Bernard F. Schutz and Franco Ricci, Elements of gravitational waves. Gravitational wave detectors. Astrophysics of gravitational wave sources. Waves and energy. Mass- and current-quadrupole radiation. Source calculations (11-87). Part 2: Gravitational wave detectors: Guido Pizzella, Angela Di Virgilio, Peter Bender and Francesco Fucito, Resonant detectors for gravitational waves and their bandwidth. The Earth based large interferometer Virgo and the low frequency facility. Detection of scalar gravitational waves (89-177). Part 3: The stochastic gravitational wave background: D. Babusci, S. Foffa, G. Losurdo, M. Maggiore, G. Matone and R. Sturani, Generalities of stochastic GW background. Sources of SGWB (179-242). Part 4: Theoretical developments: Hermann Nicolai, Alessandro Nagar, Donato Bini, Fernado de Felice, Maurizio Gasperini and Luc Blanchet, Infinite dimensional symmetries in gravity. Gyroscopes and gravitational waves. Elementary introduction to pre-big bang cosmology and to the relic graviton background. Post-Newtonian computation of binary inspiral waveforms (243-357). Part 5 Numerical relativity: Edward Seidel (359-408).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.