Current Trends in Relativistic Astrophysics: Theoretical, Numerical, Observational

Leonardo Fernández-Jambrina, Luis Manuel González-Romero (auth.), Dr. Leonardo Fernández-Jambrina, Prof. Luis Manuel González-Romero (eds.)3540019839, 9783540019831

The present volume contains the expanded lectures of a meeting on relativistic astrophysics, the goal of which was to provide a modern introduction to specific aspects of the field for young researchers, as well as for nonspecialists from related areas. Particular emphasis is placed on the theory of black holes and evolution, relativistic stars and jet hydrodynamics, as well as the production and detection of gravitational waves. The book is complemented by further contributions and animation supplied on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Table of contents :
Relativistic Astrophysics….Pages 1-12
Black Hole Thermodynamics….Pages 15-49
Perturbations of Black Holes….Pages 50-67
Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse: The Role of Angular Momentum….Pages 68-86
Stellar Perturbations….Pages 89-112
Numerical Relativistic Hydrodynamics….Pages 113-129
Flux Limiter Methods in 3D Numerical Relativity….Pages 130-139
Gauge Conditions for Long-Term Numerical Black Hole Evolution With or Without Excision….Pages 140-158
Numerical Relativity with the Conformal Field Equations….Pages 159-192
Binary Black Holes and Gravitational Wave Production: Post-Newtonian Analytic Treatment….Pages 195-209
The Detection of Gravitational Waves….Pages 210-241
Structure of Conformal Lorentz Transformations….Pages 245-251
Circularity Conditions on Stationary Axisymmetric Einstein-Yang-Mills Fields….Pages 252-260
The Shortest Cut in Brane Cosmology….Pages 261-276
Weak Energy Condition Violation and Superluminal Travel….Pages 277-291
Factor Structure of Rational Vacuum Metrics and a Generalization of the Tomimatsu-Sato Solutions….Pages 292-301
An Anisotropic Cosmological Model with Isotropic Background Radiation….Pages 302-305
Lorentzian Comments on Stokes Parameters….Pages 306-314
Causal Transformations….Pages 315-329
TELEPENSOUTH Project: Measurement of the Earth Gravitomagnetic Field in a Terrestrial Laboratory….Pages 330-336
Supermassive Stars with Local Anisotropy, Possible Source of Some Quasars’ Luminosity?….Pages 337-342
On Modifications of the Einstein—Straus Model to Anisotropic Settings….Pages 343-347