Extracting Physics from Gravitational Waves

Extracting Physics from Gravitational Waves

Testing the Strong-field Dynamics of General Relativity and Inferring the Large-scale Structure of the Universe

Li, Tjonnie G. F.

Springer International Publishing AG

10/2016

235

Mole

Inglês

9783319366647

15 a 20 dias

Tjonnie Li's thesis covers two applications of Gravitational Wave astronomy: tests of General Relativity in the strong-field regime and cosmological measurements.
Part I General Introduction.- Gravitational waves in the linearised theory of General Relativity.- Gravitational waves in the post-Newtonian formalism.- Gravitational waves: detection and sources.- Bayesian Inference.- Computational methods.- Part II Testing the Strong-field Dynamics of General Relativity.- Introduction.- Test Infrastructure for General Relativity (TIGER).- Results.- Discussion.- Part III Inferring the Large-scale Structure of the Universe.- Introduction.- Cosmography.- Electromagnetic counterpart as redshift measurement.- Concluding remarks.- A Systematic multipole expansion.- Bibliography.- Popular-science summary.
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