Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2003-02-07
ICTP Lecture Series, Vol. 3, (2003) ISBN 92-95003-05-5
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Lectures given at the Summer School on Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology, ICTP, July 2002 (47 pages, 9 figs)
Scientific paper
These lectures aim at providing an introduction to the properties of gravitational waves and in particular to those gravitational waves that are expected as a consequence of perturbations of black holes and neutron stars. Imprinted in the gravitational radiation emitted by these objects is, in fact, a wealth of physical information. In the case of black holes, a detailed knowledge of the gravitational radiation emitted as a response to perturbations will reveal us important details about their mass and spin, but also about the fundamental properties of the event horizon. In the case of neutron stars, on the other hand, this information can provide a detailed map of their internal structure and tell us about the equation of state of matter at very high density, thus filling-in a gap in energies and densities that cannot be investigated by experiments in terrestrial laboratories.
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