Understanding gravitational waves / / C. R. Kitchin

• Autore: Kitchin C. R (Christopher R.)
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (422 pages)
• Disciplina: 539.754
• Soggetto topico: Gravitational waves
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Read This Before You Jump-in at the Deep End -- How to Read This Book -- Numbers -- Units -- Constants, Definitions, Quantities, Symbols and Units -- Topicality -- Contents -- 1: 14th September 2015 -- On the Significance of 1/400 of a Proton's Diameter -- What, Then Caused {10} GW150914? -- 2: Gravity: From 850,000,000 BCE to 1915 CE -- From Pre-History to Galileo -- Introduction -- In the Beginning -- Galileo -- Brahe and Kepler -- Newton -- Newton to Einstein: The Interregnum -- The Gravitational Constant -- Different Types of Mass: The Equivalence Principle -- Into the Nineteenth Century: And the Discrepancies Start to Appear -- Uranus' Positional Anomaly -- Mercury's Perihelion Positional Anomaly -- 3: Gravity: From 1915-Through Today-And on Towards Tomorrow -- Einstein -- Relativity -- Special Relativity -- General Relativity -- But What About Spacecraft? -- General Relativity: The Small Print -- General Relativity: The Nitty Gritty -- Testing General Relativity -- Mercury's Perihelion Problem: First Test -- The Bending of Light Beams: Second Test -- Gravitational Lensing -- Gravitational Redshift: Third Test -- The Shapiro Effect: Fourth Test -- Rotating Frames of Reference -- Gravity into the Future -- 4: Gravitational Waves: The Long, Long Journey from Half-Seen Chimeras to Highly Studied Certainties -- Introduction -- Gravitational Waves up to Einstein -- Gravitational Waves After Einstein -- Gravitational Waves: The Real Thing -- 5: Gravitational Waves: Origins and Sources -- Introduction -- Potentially Observable Sources of Gravitational Waves -- Burst Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Continuous Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Inspiral Type Gravitational Wave Sources (Binary Merger Type Gravitational Wave Sources) -- Stochastic Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Frequencies. ; {90} GW170817: Three Detectors and Two Neutron Stars -- Some Final Questions and Thoughts About Gravitational Wave Sources -- Does the Earth Generate Gravitational Waves? -- Does the Earth Generate Gravitational Waves Which We Can Detect? -- What About Making Our Own Detectable Gravitational Waves Then? -- Suppose Some Event Produced Intense Gravitational Waves Very Nearby -- Could I Be Injured? -- OK: Could the Earth/Sun/Solar System Be Affected Then? -- Gravitational Wave Sources: The First Nobel Prize -- Neutron Stars and Pulsars -- What Makes a Clock a Good Clock? -- Pulsar Clocks -- PSR B1913+16 -- 6: Gravitational Wave Events: Calling the Roll -- Introduction -- Individual Gravitational Wave Events -- Observational Run O1 -- {10} GW150914 -- {20} GW151012 -- {30} GW151226 -- Observational Run O2 -- {40} GW170104 -- {50} GW170608 -- {70} GW170809 -- {80} GW170814 -- {90} GW170817 -- {100} GW170818 -- Observational Runs O3a and O3b -- {180} GW190425z -- {270} GW190521g -- {430} GW190814bv -- {520} GW190924h -- 7: Into the Unknown: The First Years of the Quest for Gravitational Waves -- Introduction -- Weber's Gravitational Wave Detector -- Other Resonant Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Material -- Cooling -- Mechanical Noise Reduction -- Detection -- Shape -- Detectors -- 8: Eureka!: A Beginner's Guide to Making Successful Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Introduction -- Michelson and Morley -- The Present Day Scene -- The Next Few Years -- Interferometer-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors: The Devil Is in the Details -- General Noise -- Thermal Noise -- Shot Noise -- Refractive Index -- Shields and Baffles -- The Light Source -- Preparing the Initial Light Beam -- Beam Splitter -- The Light Beams Within the Arms -- Delay Line -- Fabry-Perot Cavities -- Frequency Limits -- Resonances -- Efficiency -- The Mirrors -- Test Masses and Their Supports. ; The Mirrors Themselves -- Recombining the Beams -- Detection -- Optical Detectors -- Gravitational Wave Signatures -- Ancillary Items -- Putting It All Together -- Getting It Going -- The Detectors -- 9: Gravitational Waves and Their Detectors: Into the Future-And Beyond -- So, You Want to be an Amateur Gravitational Wave Astronomer, Do You? -- Build Your Own -- Become a Professional -- Keep in Touch -- Join in the Fun -- The Near(ish) Future -- The Future of Resonant Bar-Type Gravitational Wave Detectors -- The Future of Terrestrial Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detectors -- AdvLIGO, AdvVirgo and GEO600/GEO H-F -- KAGRA -- Slightly Further into the Future -- Atom Interferometers -- The Future of Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Doppler Tracking -- Space-Based Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Pulsar Timing Gravitational Wave Detectors -- The Long-Odds Runners -- Associated Events -- The Far Future -- Observing the Faintest of All Gravitational Waves -- Gravitational Waves: The Discovery of the Millennium? -- Gravitics -- Faster than Light? #1 -- Faster than Light? #2 -- Faster than Light? #3 -- SETI -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Memory Refreshers -- Appendix ☆ A.1: The Index Notation for Numbers -- Introduction -- The Index Notation for Numbers -- Large Numbers -- Small Numbers -- Index Notation: A Bonus -- And a Final Note: On 22, 40.5 and 3−1, etc. -- Appendix ☆ A.2: The Index Notation for Units -- Appendix ☆☆ A.3: The Inverse-Square Law -- Appendix B: Further Study -- Appendix ☆☆ B.1: Centrifugal and Centripetal forces -- Appendix ☆☆☆ B.2: Angular Momentum -- Linear Momentum -- Angular Momentum -- Appendix ☆☆ B.3: Static and Rotating Black Holes and Gravitational Waves -- Appendix ☆☆ B.4: Light-Particle or Wave? -- Appendix C: For the High Fliers -- Appendix ☆☆☆ C.1: Does Light have Mass? and/or Momentum?. ; Appendix ☆☆ C.2: Tensor Analysis -- Appendix ☆☆☆ C.3: Fabry-Perot Cavities -- Appendix D: Constants, Definitions, Quantities, Symbols and Units -- Système International D'unités, or SI System -- Convention -- SI Prefixes -- Bibliography -- Other Books by C.R. Kitchin -- Gravity -- Gravitational Waves and Their Detectors -- Special/General Relativity -- Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Other Compact Objects -- Physics -- Electricity and Magnetism -- General -- Light and Optics -- Mathematics -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding gravitational waves
• ISBN: 3-030-74207-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910502996703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Astronomers' Universe