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Oxford Gravitational Waves Volume 2 Astrophysics and Cosmology 2018 Edition by Michele Maggiore
The two-volume 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, by systematizing 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 directdetections of gravitational waves. In the author's 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 field. The 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. Table of contents : - III: Astrophysical Sources of GWs10: Stellar collapse11: Neutron stars12: Black-hole perturbation theory13: Properties of dynamical space-times14: GWs from coalescing compact binaries. TheoryIV: Cosmology and Gravitational Waves17: Basics of FRW cosmology18: Helicity decomposition of the metric perturbations19: Evolution of cosmological perturbations20: The imprint of GWs on the CMB21: Inflation and primordial perturbations22: Stochastic backgrounds of cosmological origin23: Stochastic backgrounds and pulsar timing arrays