Relativistic Astrophysics of the Transient Universe : Gravitation, Hydrodynamics and Radiation.

"In the coming decade, the transient universe will be mapped out in great detail by the emerging wide-field multiwavelength surveys, neutrino and gravitational-wave detectors, promising to probe the astronomical and physical origin of the most extreme relativistic sources. This volume introduce...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van Putten, Maurice H. P. M.
Otros Autores: Levinson, Amir, T'Hooft, Gerard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Relativistic astrophysics.
Magnetohydrodynamics.
Cosmic background radiation.
Gravitational waves.
Astrophysique relativiste.
Magnétohydrodynamique.
Rayonnement cosmologique.
Ondes gravitationnelles.
SCIENCE > Astrophysics & Space Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Cosmic background radiation
Gravitational waves
Magnetohydrodynamics
Relativistic astrophysics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS OF THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Notation
  • Quotation acknowledgements
  • 1: A zoo of astrophysical transient sources
  • 1.1 Classification of transient sources
  • 1.1.1 Blazars
  • 1.1.2 Microquasars and gamma-ray binaries
  • 1.1.3 Pulsars and magnetars
  • 1.1.4 Gamma-ray bursts
  • 1.2 On the origin of compact objects
  • 1.2.1 Optical-radio searches for supernovae
  • 1.2.2 Observations of supernova remnants
  • 1.2.3 The endpoint of compact binaries
  • 1.3 Emerging multimessenger observatories
  • 1.3.1 Large aperture radio telescopes
  • 1.3.2 GeV-TeV photon detectors
  • 1.3.3 Cosmic-ray detectors
  • 1.3.4 Neutrino detectors
  • 1.3.5 Ground-based gravitational-wave detectors
  • 1.3.6 Transient sources as cosmic beacons
  • 1.4 Exercises
  • 2: Electromagnetic radiation processes
  • 2.1 Definitions and notation
  • 2.2 Relativistic beaming and Doppler effect
  • 2.3 Some important invariants
  • 2.4 Transformation rules
  • 2.5 Synchrotron radiation
  • 2.5.1 The total synchrotron power
  • 2.5.2 Spectrum and polarization from a single particle
  • 2.5.3 Spectrum and polarization from a power law distribution
  • 2.5.4 Synchrotron self-absorption
  • 2.5.5 Equipartition magnetic field and minimum power of a relativistic source
  • 2.6 Compton scattering
  • 2.6.1 Polarization
  • 2.6.2 Inverse Compton scattering
  • 2.6.3 The transfer equation
  • 2.6.4 The total power emitted
  • 2.6.5 The spectrum of Thomson scattered radiation
  • 2.6.6 Compton drag and Compton rockets
  • 2.6.7 Kompaneets equation
  • 2.6.8 Multiple Compton scattering in a thermal electron cloud
  • 2.7 Synchrotron self-Compton and the Compton catastrophe
  • 2.8 Creation and annihilation of electron-positron pairs
  • 2.8.1 Pair-production opacity.
  • 8: Relativistic blast waves
  • 8.1 Blast wave equations
  • 8.2 Impulsive adiabatic blast wave
  • 8.2.1 A uniform shell model
  • 8.2.2 Self-similar solutions
  • 8.3 Impulsive radiative blast wave
  • 8.4 Emission from the forward shock
  • 8.5 Jets and breaks
  • 8.6 Early evolution: reverse shock formation
  • 8.6.1 Thin shell approximation
  • 8.6.2 Self-similar solutions
  • 8.7 Optical flashes
  • 8.8 Stability analysis
  • 8.9 Exercises
  • 9: Accretion disks and tori
  • 9.1 Basic principles and scaling relations
  • 9.2 Magneto-rotational instability
  • 9.3 A hydrodynamic instability in a torus
  • 9.4 Self-regulated instability around rapidly rotating black holes
  • 9.5 Torus magnetospheres around rapidly rotating black holes
  • 9.6 Exercises
  • 10: Entropic attraction in black hole binaries
  • 10.1 Entropic gravity
  • 10.2 Black holes and cosmic censorship
  • 10.3 Apparent horizon surfaces of black holes
  • 10.4 Gravitational attraction by Gibbs' principle
  • 10.5 Entropy jumps in mergers
  • 10.6 Newton's law from an adiabatic variational principle
  • 10.7 Newton's law for point particles
  • 10.8 Exercises
  • 11: Transient sources from rotating black holes
  • 11.1 Alfvén waves in transient capillary jets
  • 11.2 UHECRs upstream of Alfvén fronts
  • 11.3 Scaling relations for the spin down time
  • 11.4 Observing black hole spin down in long GRBs
  • 11.5 Scale-free behavior in GRB light curves from black hole spin down
  • 11.6 High frequency gravitational waves from stellar mass Kerr black holes
  • 11.7 Low frequency gravitational waves from SgrA
  • 11.8 Unification of ultra-relativistic transient events
  • 11.9 Exercises
  • 12: Searching for long bursts in gravitational waves
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 Template for long duration GWBs
  • 12.3 Time sliced matched filtering
  • 12.4 Outlook for detections.
  • 12.5 Electromagnetic priors in gravitational-wave searches from supernovae and long GRBs
  • 12.6 Exercises
  • 13: Epilogue: the multimessenger Transient Universe
  • 13.1 Observational tests for multimessenger emissions from rotating black holes
  • 13.2 Outlook
  • Appendix A: Some properties of Kerr black holes
  • Appendix B: Cosmological event rates
  • Appendix C: Relaxation limited evaporation
  • Appendix D: Some units and constants
  • Physical constants
  • Some astronomical and cosmological constants
  • References
  • Index.

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