Gravitational Waves: A History of Discovery

ISBN-13: 9780367136826 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 146 str.

Hartmut Grote

Opis

The historic detection of gravitational waves on September 14, 2015, prompted by the highly energetic fusion of two black holes is reconstructed in this book in a way that is understandable to non-specialist readers.

Spis treści

1. They exist, they don't exist, they exist. 2. They exist, they don't exist 3. Michelson's legacy: the interferometer 4. Interferometers: around the world. 5. Data analysis and Big Dog  6. They exist! 7. Future developments

O autorze

Hartmut Grote is a Professor of physics at Cardiff University, UK. His main expertise is in experimental gravitational-wave physics and he has worked on building and improving gravitational wave detectors for over 20 years. From 2009 to 2017, he was the scientific leader of the British-German gravitational-wave detector GEO600.