Gravitational waves :, Volume 1, Theory and experiments, Michele Maggiore

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Gravitational waves :, Volume 1, Theory and experiments, Michele Maggiore

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Volume 1

Title part

Theory and experiments

Statement of responsibility

Michele Maggiore

Instantiates

• Gravitational waves :, Volume 1, Theory and experiments

Publication

• Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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• Cover ; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Notation; Part I Gravitational-wave theory; 1 The geometric approach to GWs; 1.1 Expansion around at space; 1.2 The transverse-traceless gauge; 1.3 Interaction of GWs with test masses; 1.3.1 Geodesic equation and geodesic deviation; 1.3.2 Local inertial frames and freely falling frames; 1.3.3 TT frame and proper detector frame; 1.4 The energy of GWs; 1.4.1 Separation of GWs from the background; 1.4.2 How GWs curve the background; 1.4.3 The energy-momentum tensor of GWs; 1.5 Propagation in curved space-time
• 2.3.1 Phenomenological bounds2.3.2 Field theory of massive gravitons; 2.4 Solved problems; 2.1. The helicity of gravitons; 2.2. Angular momentum and parity of graviton states; Further reading; 3 Generation of GWs in linearized theory; 3.1 Weakeld sources with arbitrary velocity; 3.2 Low-velocity expansion; 3.3 Mass quadrupole radiation; 3.3.1 Amplitude and angular distribution; 3.3.2 Radiated energy; 3.3.3 Radiated angular momentum; 3.3.4 Radiation reaction on non-relativistic sources; 3.3.5 Radiation from a closed system of point masses; 3.4 Mass octupole and current quadrupole
• 4.1.2 Elliptic orbits. (I) Total power and frequency spectrum of the radiation emitted4.1.3 Elliptic orbits. (II) Evolution of the orbit under back-reaction; 4.1.4 Binaries at cosmological distances; 4.2 Radiation from rotating rigid bodies; 4.2.1 GWs from rotation around a principal axis; 4.2.2 GWs from freely precessing rigid bodies; 4.3 Radial infall into a black hole; 4.3.1 Radiation from an infalling point-like mass; 4.3.2 Tidal disruption of a real star falling into a black hole. Coherent and incoherent radiation; 4.4 Radiation from accelerated masses

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