The Kerr Spacetime
Title | The Kerr Spacetime PDF eBook |
Author | David L. Wiltshire |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-01-22 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0521885124 |
Unique, comprehensive overview for researchers and graduate students in observational and theoretical astrophysics, general relativity, and high-energy physics.
The Geometry of Kerr Black Holes
Title | The Geometry of Kerr Black Holes PDF eBook |
Author | Barrett O'Neill |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2014-01-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0486783111 |
Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of mathematics as well as for physicists, this unique monograph and self-contained treatment constitutes an introduction to modern techniques in differential geometry. 1995 edition.
Lectures on Astrophysics
Title | Lectures on Astrophysics PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Weinberg |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2019-12-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1108415075 |
Stars -- Binaries -- The interstellar medium -- Galaxies.
Introduction to General Relativity, Black Holes, and Cosmology
Title | Introduction to General Relativity, Black Holes, and Cosmology PDF eBook |
Author | Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0199666466 |
A precise yet simple introduction to the foundations and main consequences of General Relativity. The first five chapters from Choquet-Bruhat's General Relativity and the Einstein Equations (2008) have been updated with new sections and chapters on black holes, gravitational waves, singularities and more to form this textbook.
Cracking the Einstein Code
Title | Cracking the Einstein Code PDF eBook |
Author | Fulvio Melia |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2009-10-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0226519546 |
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time. But for more than four decades after its publication, the theory remained largely a curiosity for scientists; however accurate it seemed, Einstein’s mathematical code—represented by six interlocking equations—was one of the most difficult to crack in all of science. That is, until a twenty-nine-year-old Cambridge graduate solved the great riddle in 1963. Roy Kerr’s solution emerged coincidentally with the discovery of black holes that same year and provided fertile testing ground—at long last—for general relativity. Today, scientists routinely cite the Kerr solution, but even among specialists, few know the story of how Kerr cracked Einstein’s code. Fulvio Melia here offers an eyewitness account of the events leading up to Kerr’s great discovery. Cracking the Einstein Code vividly describes how luminaries such as Karl Schwarzschild, David Hilbert, and Emmy Noether set the stage for the Kerr solution; how Kerr came to make his breakthrough; and how scientists such as Roger Penrose, Kip Thorne, and Stephen Hawking used the accomplishment to refine and expand modern astronomy and physics. Today more than 300 million supermassive black holes are suspected of anchoring their host galaxies across the cosmos, and the Kerr solution is what astronomers and astrophysicists use to describe much of their behavior. By unmasking the history behind the search for a real world solution to Einstein’s field equations, Melia offers a first-hand account of an important but untold story. Sometimes dramatic, often exhilarating, but always attuned to the human element, Cracking the Einstein Code is ultimately a showcase of how important science gets done.
Superradiance
Title | Superradiance PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Brito |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2020-08-21 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3030466221 |
This book focuses on one mechanism in black hole physics which has proven to be universal, multifaceted and with a rich phenomenology: rotational superradiance. This is an energy extraction process, whereby black holes can deposit their rotational energy in their surroundings, leading to Penrose processes, black-hole bombs, and even Hawking radiation. Black holes are key players in star formation mechanisms and as engines to some of the most violent events in our universe. Their simplicity and compactness make them perfect laboratories, ideally suited to probe new fields or modifications to the theory of gravity. Thus, black holes can also be used to probe some of the most important open problems in physics, including the nature of dark matter or the strong CP problem in particle physics. This monograph is directed to researchers and graduate students and provides a unified view of the subject, covering the theoretical machinery, experimental efforts in the laboratory, and astrophysics searches. It is focused on recent developments and works out a number of novel examples and applications, ranging from fundamental physics to astrophysics. Non-specialists with a scientific background should also find this text a valuable resource for understanding the critical issues of contemporary research in black-hole physics. This second edition stresses the role of ergoregions in superradiance, and completes its catalogue of energy-extraction processes. It presents a unified description of instabilities of spinning black holes in the presence of massive fields. Finally, it covers the first experimental observation of superradiance, and reviews the state-of-the-art in the searches for new light fields in the universe using superradiance as a mechanism.
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
Title | The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time PDF eBook |
Author | S. W. Hawking |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1975-02-27 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1139810952 |
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity leads to two remarkable predictions: first, that the ultimate destiny of many massive stars is to undergo gravitational collapse and to disappear from view, leaving behind a 'black hole' in space; and secondly, that there will exist singularities in space-time itself. These singularities are places where space-time begins or ends, and the presently known laws of physics break down. They will occur inside black holes, and in the past are what might be construed as the beginning of the universe. To show how these predictions arise, the authors discuss the General Theory of Relativity in the large. Starting with a precise formulation of the theory and an account of the necessary background of differential geometry, the significance of space-time curvature is discussed and the global properties of a number of exact solutions of Einstein's field equations are examined. The theory of the causal structure of a general space-time is developed, and is used to study black holes and to prove a number of theorems establishing the inevitability of singualarities under certain conditions. A discussion of the Cauchy problem for General Relativity is also included in this 1973 book.