[PDF] Texas Symposium On Relativistic Astrophysics 8 eBook

Author : Hans Böhringer
Publisher :
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN :

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This text, which results from aq major astrophysics convocations, treats such subjects as binary pulsars, clusters of galaxies, large-scale structures, recent highlights of HST, sources of gravitational radiation, X- and gamma-background, Machos and dark matter, the solar neutrino problem, quasar absorption lines, inflationary cosmology, particle physics and cosmology, recent highlights of GRO, galactic centers, COBE results, high redshift quasars, quantum gravity, recent highlights from ASCA and ROSAT, supernovae and cosmic rays at high energies.

Author : Tsvi Piran
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1776 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 1999-05-14
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ISBN : 9814543918

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Since 1975, the Marcel Grossmann Meetings have been organized to provide opportunities for discussing recent advances in gravitation, general relativity and relativistic field theories, emphasizing mathematical foundations, physical predictions and experimental tests. The objective of these meetings is to facilitate exchange among scientists that may deepen our understanding of space-time structures and to review the status of ongoing experiments aimed at testing Einstein's theory of gravitation from either the ground or space.The Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting took place on 22-27 June, 1997, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. The scientific program included 25 plenary talks and 40 parallel sessions during which 400 papers were presented. The papers that appear in this book cover all aspects of gravitation, from mathematical issues to recent observations and experiments.

Author : Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 1990-05-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226100999

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This is the fifth of six volumes collecting significant papers of the distinguished astrophysicist and Nobel laureate S. Chandrasekhar. His work is notable for its breadth as well as for its brilliance; his practice has been to change his focus from time to time to pursue new areas of research. The result has been a prolific career full of discoveries and insights, some of which are only now being fully appreciated. Chandrasekhar has selected papers that trace the development of his ideas and that present aspects of his work not fully covered in the books he has periodically published to summarize his research in each area. Volume 5 covers all of Chandrasekhar's contributions to the general theory of relativity and relativity's astrophysical applications (except his research on black holes and colliding gravitational waves, which is covered in Volume 6). The major topics include the influence of general relativity on the pulsations and stability of stars; the back reaction of gravitational waves on their sources; and post-Newtonian approximations to general relativity and their astrophysical applications. In addition to research papers, the volume includes two 1972 lectures in which Chandrasekhar assessed the past, present, and future of relativistic astrophysics. The foreword by astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne is an absorbing, brief history of the field since 1961, capturing the atmosphere of the early research and clarifying Chandrasekhar's dominant role in it. Chandrasekhar has never written a monograph synthesizing his research in relativistic astrophysics, and therefore this volume of his papers serves as a summary of that work for students and more senior researchers.