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The sounds of the cosmos : gravitational waves and the birth of multi-messenger astronomy
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Details
- Creator
- Mario Diaz, Gabriela González, and Jorge Pullin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780262372794, 0262372797, 9780262372787, 0262372789, 9780262544948, 9780262544948
- OCLC
- on1348935584
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Gravity from the ancient Greeks to Newton -- Einstein's special theory of relativity -- The general theory of relativity -- Gravitational waves : their long and difficult history -- The life and death of stars -- Astrophysical sources of gravitational radiation -- Numerical relativity -- A brief history of terrestrial gravitational wave detectors -- The technology of LIGO -- At last: detections -- and many! -- The birth of GW multi-messenger astronomy -- The future