Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Notation
- 1 Superluminal motion in the quasar 3C273
- 2 Curved spacetime and SgrA*
- 3 Parallel transport and isometry of tangent bundles
- 4 Maxwell's equations
- 5 Riemannian curvature
- 6 Gravitational radiation
- 7 Cosmological event rates
- 8 Compressible fluid dynamics
- 9 Waves in relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
- 10 Nonaxisymmetric waves in a torus
- 11 Phenomenology of GRB supernovae
- 12 Kerr black holes
- 13 Luminous black holes
- 14 A luminous torus in gravitational radiation
- 15 GRB supernovae from rotating black holes
- 16 Observational opportunities for LIGO and Virgo
- 17 Epilogue: GRB/XRF singlets, doublets? Triplets!
- Appendix A Landau's derivation of a maximal mass
- Appendix B Thermodynamics of luminous black holes
- Appendix C Spin–orbit coupling in the ergotube
- Appendix D Pair creation in a Wald field
- Appendix E Black hole spacetimes in the complex plan
- Appendix F Some units, constants and numbers
- References
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Notation
- 1 Superluminal motion in the quasar 3C273
- 2 Curved spacetime and SgrA*
- 3 Parallel transport and isometry of tangent bundles
- 4 Maxwell's equations
- 5 Riemannian curvature
- 6 Gravitational radiation
- 7 Cosmological event rates
- 8 Compressible fluid dynamics
- 9 Waves in relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
- 10 Nonaxisymmetric waves in a torus
- 11 Phenomenology of GRB supernovae
- 12 Kerr black holes
- 13 Luminous black holes
- 14 A luminous torus in gravitational radiation
- 15 GRB supernovae from rotating black holes
- 16 Observational opportunities for LIGO and Virgo
- 17 Epilogue: GRB/XRF singlets, doublets? Triplets!
- Appendix A Landau's derivation of a maximal mass
- Appendix B Thermodynamics of luminous black holes
- Appendix C Spin–orbit coupling in the ergotube
- Appendix D Pair creation in a Wald field
- Appendix E Black hole spacetimes in the complex plan
- Appendix F Some units, constants and numbers
- References
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005