Black Holes

Gravitational Interactions
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-19-851479-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Black Holes are regions of space-time where the gravitational field is so strong that not even light can escape. There has been much written on black holes, however in most cases they are treated as isolated objects. The author has found a number of cases in which the interaction of a black hole with another strong-field system (such as the background universe or another black hole) could be treated analytically. This includes using the powerful method of matched asymptotic expansions. In this book the author considers these wider ranging problems and examples for the first time. This book will be widely read by all those working in gravitation, and PhD students in mathematical physics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Eath, P. D.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Galaxien und Sterne
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Relativität, Gravitation
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Black holes

- 2: Dynamics of a black hole in a background universe

- 3: Interaction of two black-holes in the slow-motion limit

- 4: Gravitational radiation from high-speed black-hole encounters

- 5: Axisymmetric black-hole collisions at speed of light; perturbation treatment of gravitational radiation

- 6: Axisymmetric black-hole collisions at the speed of light: reduction in two independent variables and calculation of the second-order news function

- 7: Axisymmetric black-hole collisions at the speed of light: gravitational radiation - results and conclusions

- 8: Conclusion

- References