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Detecting the stochastic gravitational-wave background /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colacino, Carlo Nicola (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan and Claypool Publishers, [2017]
Series:IOP (Series). Release 4.
IOP concise physics.
Subjects:
Gravitational waves.
Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory)
SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A brief history of gravitational radiation
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Sources of gravitational radiation
  • 1.3. Gravitational waves from general relativity
  • 1.4. Background reading
  • 2. General theoretical considerations about the cosmological SGWB
  • 2.1. The SGWB and its detectability
  • 3. SGWB generation and source detection
  • 3.1. Topological defects
  • 3.2. Strings
  • 3.3. Inflation
  • 3.4. String cosmology
  • 4. Astrophysical sources
  • 4.1. Conclusions.