Current Trends in Relativistic Astrophysics: Theoretical, Numerical, ObservationalLeonardo Fernández-Jambrina, Luis Manuel González-Romero 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. |
Contents
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Theory Evolution Accretion and Stability | 15 |
Perturbations of Black Holes | 50 |
Numerical and Perturbative Analysis | 89 |
Numerical Relativistic Hydrodynamics | 113 |
Flux Limiter Methods in 3D Numerical Relativity | 130 |
Numerical Relativity with the Conformal Field Equations | 159 |
Production and Detection | 195 |
Structure of Conformal Lorentz Transformations | 242 |
The Shortest Cut in Brane Cosmology | 261 |
Weak Energy Condition Violation and Superluminal Travel | 277 |
Factor Structure of Rational Vacuum Metrics | 292 |
Lorentzian Comments on Stokes Parameters | 306 |
Measurement of the Earth | 330 |
Modifications of the EinsteinStraus Model | 343 |
The Detection of Gravitational Waves | 210 |
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