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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 August 2012
      05 July 2012
      ISBN:
      9780511863165
      9781107010734
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511863165
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.84kg, 354 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Physics and Astronomy, Cosmology, Relativity and Gravitation, Astrophysics
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    In this decade, the transient universe will be mapped out in great detail by the emerging wide-field multiwavelength surveys, and neutrino and gravitational-wave detectors, promising to probe the astronomical and physical origin of the most extreme relativistic sources. This volume introduces the physical processes relevant to the source modeling of the transient universe. Ideal for graduate students and researchers in astrophysics, this book gives a unified treatment of relativistic flows associated with compact objects, their dissipation and emission in electromagnetic, hadronic and gravitational radiation. After introducing the source classes, the authors set out various mechanisms for creating magnetohydodynamic outflows in winds, jets and blast waves and their radiation properties. They then go on to discuss properties of accretion flows around rotating black holes and their gravitational wave emission from wave instabilites with implications for the emerging gravitational wave experiments. Graduate students and researchers can gain an understanding of data analysis for gravitational-wave data.

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    'Van Putten and Levinson have made an enjoyable compilation of all those strange things that can happen in our Universe, not only providing detailed physical calculations to understand them, but also including descriptions of all the channels of radiation that we can use to receive as much information about them as we can.'

    Gerard ’t Hooft - Utrecht University, from the Foreword

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