Black holes: theory and observation

Friedrich W. Hehl, Claus Kiefer, Ralph J.K. Metzler3540651586, 9783540651581

This book addresses graduate students in the first place and is meant as a modern compendium to the existing texts on black hole astrophysics. The authors present in pedagogically written articles our present knowledge on black holes covering mathematical models including numerical aspects and physics and astronomical observations as well. In addition, in their write-up of a panel discussion the participants of the school address the existence of black holes consenting that it has by now been verified with certainty.

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Table of contents :
Series Title……Page 1
Title……Page 3
Date-line……Page 4
Preface……Page 5
Table of Contents ……Page 6
List of Contributors ……Page 9
1. Black Holes: A General Introduction (Jean-Pierre Luminet) ……Page 12
2. Evidence for Massive Black Holes in the Nuclei of Active Galaxies from Gamma-Ray Observations (Werner Collmar and Volker Schonfelder) ……Page 44
3. First Conclusive Evidence for a Massive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way (Andreas Eckart and Reinhard Genzel) ……Page 67
4. Broad Iron Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei: A Possible Test of the Kerr Metric? (Jorn Wilms, Roland Speith, and Christopher S. Reynolds) ……Page 76
5. Accretion and Winds Around Galactic and Extragalactic Black Holes (Sandip K. Chakrabarti) ……Page 87
6. The Membrane Model of Black Holes and Applications (Norbert Straumann) ……Page 115
7. Uniqueness Theorems for Black Hole Space-Times (Markus Heusler) ……Page 161
8. Black Hole Hair: A Review (Dario Nunez, Hernando Quevedo, and Daniel Sudarsky) ……Page 191
9. Local Version of the Area Theorem (on a Question by G. ‘t Hooft) (Domenico Giulini) ……Page 203
10. Black Holes as Exact Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell Equations of Petrov Type D (Alberto Garcia and Alfredo Macias) ……Page 207
11. On the Construction of Time-Symmetric Black Hole Initial Data (Domenico Giulini) ……Page 228
12. Numerical Approach to Black Holes (Edward Seidel) ……Page 248
13. Measurement Theory and General Relativity (Bahram Mashhoon) ……Page 270
14. Boson Stars in the Centre of Galaxies? (Franz E. Schunck and Andrew R. Liddle) ……Page 286
15. Black Holes in Two Dimensions (Yuri N. Obukhov and Friedrich W. Hehl) ……Page 290
16. Black Hole Thermodynamics (Gemot Neugebauer) ……Page 318
17. Gedanken Experiments in Black Hole Thermodynamics (Werner Israel) ……Page 338
18. Internal Structure of Black Holes (Werner Israel) ……Page 363
19. Quantum Fields near Black Holes (Andreas Wipf) ……Page 382
20. Towards a Full Quantum Theory of Black Holes (Claus Kiefer) ……Page 413
21. Quantum Information on the Black Hole Horizon (Gerard ‘t Hooft) ……Page 448
22. Panel Discussion: The Definitive Proofs of the Existence of Black Holes (Werner Collmar (Garching), Norbert Straumann (Zurich), Sandip K. Chakrabarti (Calcutta), Gerard ‘t Hooft (Utrecht), Edward Seidel (Potsdam), Werner Israel (Victoria)) ……Page 475
23. Exercises ……Page 484
List of Participants of the School ……Page 501
Subject Index ……Page 506