Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Notation
- Quotation acknowledgements
- 1 A zoo of astrophysical transient sources
- 2 Electromagnetic radiation processes
- 3 Curved spacetime and gravitational waves
- 4 Hadronic processes and neutrino emissions
- 5 Relativistic fluid dynamics
- 6 Winds and jets
- 7 Relativistic shock waves
- 8 Relativistic blast waves
- 9 Accretion disks and tori
- 10 Entropic attraction in black hole binaries
- 11 Transient sources from rotating black holes
- 12 Searching for long bursts in gravitational waves
- 13 Epilogue: the multimessenger Transient Universe
- Appendix A Some properties of Kerr black holes
- Appendix B Cosmological event rates
- Appendix C Relaxation limited evaporation
- Appendix D Some units and constants
- References
- Index
Notation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Notation
- Quotation acknowledgements
- 1 A zoo of astrophysical transient sources
- 2 Electromagnetic radiation processes
- 3 Curved spacetime and gravitational waves
- 4 Hadronic processes and neutrino emissions
- 5 Relativistic fluid dynamics
- 6 Winds and jets
- 7 Relativistic shock waves
- 8 Relativistic blast waves
- 9 Accretion disks and tori
- 10 Entropic attraction in black hole binaries
- 11 Transient sources from rotating black holes
- 12 Searching for long bursts in gravitational waves
- 13 Epilogue: the multimessenger Transient Universe
- Appendix A Some properties of Kerr black holes
- Appendix B Cosmological event rates
- Appendix C Relaxation limited evaporation
- Appendix D Some units and constants
- References
- Index
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- Relativistic Astrophysics of the Transient UniverseGravitation, Hydrodynamics and Radiation, pp. xvii - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012