"Version: 20180301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Concepts in special relativity -- 1.1. Galilean relativity -- 1.2. Inertial frames -- 1.3. Special relativity -- 1.4. Velocity addition, length contraction, and time dilation -- 1.5. Questions2. Tensors in relativity -- 2.1. Motivation -…
"Version: 20190401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Waves -- 3. The Special Theory of Relativity -- 4. The General Theory of Relativity -- 4.1. Gravitational radiation -- 5. The life of massive stars -- 5.1. Neutron stars -- 6. Black holes -- 6.1. Some properties of bla…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A brief history of gravitational radiation -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Sources of gravitational radiation -- 1.3. Gravitational waves from general relativity -- 1.4. Background reading2. General theoretical considerations about the cosm…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Messengers of astrophysics -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Electromagnetic radiation -- 1.3. Cosmic rays -- 1.4. Neutrinos -- 1.5. Gravitational waves2. From dust ... the birth and death of stars -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Stellar birth -- 2.3. Stellar death3. To dust ... the birth and death of planets -- 3.1. Introduct…
"Version: 20190101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-28).1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1. Theory -- 2.2. Methods of gravitational wave detection -- 2.3. LIGO detector description3. Current directions -- 3.1. Noise sources and strain sensitivity -- 3.2. Gravitational wave searches -- 3.3. Gravitational wave astronomy4. Outlook -- 4.1. Ground-based detectors…
"Version: 202109"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to multimessenger astronomy : fusing intellect and technology through telescopes -- 1.1. Dream big -- 1.2. Four astrophysical messengers -- 1.3. A brief history of telescopes : from 1608 to neutrino and gravitational wave telescopes -- 1.4. Locations : from city to space2. Electromagnetic radiation -- 2.1. U…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Multimessenger astronomy in practice : celestial sources in action / Miroslav D. Filipovi?c, Jeffrey L Payne and Nicholas F.H. Tothill -- 2. Long-wave (radio) astronomy with coherent detection from radio to THz / Natasha Hurley-Walker, Jeffrey L Payne, Miroslav D. Filipovi?c and Nicholas Tothill -- 3. Long-wave astronom…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Overview of gravitational radiation -- 1.1. Radiation in general -- 1.2. What can generate gravitational radiation? -- 1.3. How can we detect gravitational radiation? -- 1.4. Exercises2. Sources of gravitational radiation -- 2.1. Compact binaries : general considerations -- 2.2. Nonbinary sources -- 2.3. Exercises3. Grav…