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(Almost) All You Need to Know About Gravitational Wave Physics

<!--HTML-->This year marks the centenary of two pivotal breakthroughs in physics: the discovery of the Schwarzschild solution, describing a non-rotating black hole, and Einstein's prediction of gravitational waves (GWs). The GW150914 event is the first direct detection of GWs, most likely...

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Autor principal: Cardoso, Vitor
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2233640
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description <!--HTML-->This year marks the centenary of two pivotal breakthroughs in physics: the discovery of the Schwarzschild solution, describing a non-rotating black hole, and Einstein's prediction of gravitational waves (GWs). The GW150914 event is the first direct detection of GWs, most likely the first observation of black-hole binaries, and certainly a fitting celebration. Gravitational waves offer a unique glimpse into the unseen universe in different ways, and allow us to test the basic tenets of General Relativity, some of which have been taken for granted without observations: are gravitons massless? Are black holes the simplest possible macroscopic objects? do event horizons and black holes really exist, or is their formation halted by some as-yet unknown mechanism? In these lectures, we will describe the anatomy of a GW event, with particular emphasis on how to compute gravitational-waves from black hole systems and what kind of information such waves carry.
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spelling cern-22336402022-11-03T08:15:35Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/2233640engCardoso, Vitor (Almost) All You Need to Know About Gravitational Wave Physics(Almost) All You Need to Know About Gravitational Wave PhysicsAcademic Training Lecture Regular Programme<!--HTML-->This year marks the centenary of two pivotal breakthroughs in physics: the discovery of the Schwarzschild solution, describing a non-rotating black hole, and Einstein's prediction of gravitational waves (GWs). The GW150914 event is the first direct detection of GWs, most likely the first observation of black-hole binaries, and certainly a fitting celebration. Gravitational waves offer a unique glimpse into the unseen universe in different ways, and allow us to test the basic tenets of General Relativity, some of which have been taken for granted without observations: are gravitons massless? Are black holes the simplest possible macroscopic objects? do event horizons and black holes really exist, or is their formation halted by some as-yet unknown mechanism? In these lectures, we will describe the anatomy of a GW event, with particular emphasis on how to compute gravitational-waves from black hole systems and what kind of information such waves carry.oai:cds.cern.ch:22336402016
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(Almost) All You Need to Know About Gravitational Wave Physics
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