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Record Nr.

UNINA9910257435103321

Titolo

Relativistic Gravity Research [[electronic resource] ] : With Emphasis on Experiments and Observations / / edited by Jürgen Ehlers, G. Schäfer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1992

ISBN

3-540-47483-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 1992.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 412 p. 50 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 410

Disciplina

530.1

Soggetti

Gravitation

Observations, Astronomical

Astronomy—Observations

Astrophysics

Geophysics

Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory

Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

Astrophysics and Astroparticles

Geophysics/Geodesy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Gravitational lensing -- The general relativistic N-body problem -- Observable relativistic effects in the solar system -- New results for relativistic parameters from the analysis of llr measurements -- Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry in astro-, geo-, and gravitational physics -- A gradiometer experiment to detect the gravitomagnetic field of the earth -- The international atomic time and the PTB's clocks -- Gravity-wave astrophysics -- The GEO—project a long-baseline laser interferometer for the detection of gravitational waves -- The optics of an interferometric gravitational-wave antenna -- Mechanical aspects in interferometric gravity wave detectors -- Fermion and Boson stars -- Black holes with hair -- Gravitational fields of rapidly rotating neutron stars: Theoretical foundation -- Gravitational fields of rapidly rotating neutron stars: Numerical results -- A new laboratory experiment for testing Newton's gravitational law -- Matter wave interferometry and



why quantum objects are fundamental for establishing a gravitational theory.