PDF-(BOOS)-Gravitational Waves: Volume 2: Astrophysics and Cosmology

The twovolume book Gravitational Waves provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the physics of gravitational waves While Volume 1 is devoted to the theory and experiments Volume 2 discusses what can be learned from gravitational waves in astrophysics and in cosmology bysystematizing a large body of theoretical developments that have taken place over the last decades The second volume also includes a detailed discussion of the first direct detections of gravitational waves In the authors typical style the theoretical results are generally derived afresh clarifying or streamlining the existing derivations whenever possible and providing a coherent and consistent picture of the fieldThe first volume of Gravitational Waves which appeared in 2007 has established itself as the standard reference in the field The scientific community has eagerly awaited this second volume The recent direct detection of gravitational waves makes the topics in this book particularly timely. Millisecond . Pulsars:. Dan Stinebring. Oberlin College. CWRU – May 21, 2009. . George Greenstein. (Amherst College). Discovery of “Millisecond” Pulsars. 1982 – Arecibo Observatory – Don Backer, Sri Kulkarni, .... In 1916, the year after the final formulation of the field equations of general relativity, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves. He found that the linearized weak-field equations had wave solutions: transverse waves of spatial strain that travel at the speed of light, generated by time variations of the mass quadrupole moment of the source [1,2]. Einstein understood that gravitational-wave amplitudes would be remarkably small; moreover, until the Chapel Hill conference in 1957 there was significant debate about the physical reality of gravitational waves [3] The Child of General Relativity. A Necessary Change. Concepts after Einstein :-. Time is not absolute. There is no ether frame. Notion of . spacetime. Concepts before Einstein :-. There is a preferred reference frame ether. some history. (based on D. . Kennefick’s. work). Historical tidbits. 1776: Laplace suggests four mechanisms that could explain secular perturbations of Moon-Earth orbit. One the explanations was a non-instantaneous propagation of gravity, affecting the binary system (abandoned because its speed would be too large to be measurable to explain the effect). . Sources and detection . Ravi . kumar. . Kopparapu. Center for Gravitational-Wave Physics (CGWP) . Gravity. Einstein’s General theory of relativity :. Gravity is a manifestation of curvature of 4- dimensional (3 space + 1 time) space-time produced by matter (metric equation ? g. (& Gravitons ?). -. Vishal. . Kasliwal. Classical Electromagnetism. Vacuum. Maxwell Field Equations. Light!!. Electromagnetic waves. Quantum Electromagnetism. Hamiltonian of Quantized. Field. where. Edwin Hubble. S.B. ’10, Ph.D. ‘17. Hubble . constant. Hubble law. Hubble diagram. Hubble age. Hubble classification. Hubble radius. Hubble sequence. Hubble . flow. Hubble volume. …. .. Pretty much invented observational cosmology & . Gravitational Waves. Prediction. General Relativity – 1915. Gravity is not the pulling force envisioned by Kepler or Newton. Space warps around massive objects. Accelerating massive objects could radiate distortions like the wake of a boat. Alexander . Polnarev. QMUL, School of Physics and Astronomy, London, UK. Tarusa. , 10 September 2015. Talk Overview:. Introduction: . Free electrons + Anisotropy = Polarization. The History of Polarization in Cosmology: . -12 . cm. A world-shaking discovery. James Clerk Maxwell. Professor at King’s College. London: 1860 – 1865. Unified theory of electricity and . . magnetism. Predicted electromagnetic waves. Identified light as due to these waves. Ra Inta (Texas Tech University) . for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo . Collaboration. LIGO . Document . G1700692-v3. 1. A tour of some applied mathematical tools used within the LIGO and Virgo collaborations. https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/system/video_items/files/4/EinsteinsMessengerLIGO.mp4?1436490806. 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. : Rainer Weiss - Barry C. . Barish. -Kip S. . Thorne. "for . decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves". within 10 milliseconds of one another 150 that indicates a gravitational wave And from that minute change scientists are further able to identify the wave146s source and very broadly where in the univ Ravi . kumar. . Kopparapu. Center for Gravitational-Wave Physics (CGWP) . Gravity. Einstein’s General theory of relativity :. Gravity is a manifestation of curvature of 4- dimensional (3 space + 1 time) space-time produced by matter (metric equation ? g.