Gravitational Waves
by Michele Maggiore · Maggiore
Graduate-level second volume of Maggiore's treatise, treating gravitational-wave sources: compact binary coalescence, supernovae, pulsars, and stochastic cosmological backgrounds. Requires general relativity and field theory; prepares readers to follow LIGO-Virgo detection papers and source-modelling literature.
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