The Galactic Black Hole: Lectures on General Relativity and Astrophysics

Friedrich W. Hehl, Heino Falcke

366 pages, parution le 24/12/2002

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Résumé

The supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way is the nearest such object and relatively easy to observe and study. Not surprisingly therefore, it is the best studied supermassive black hole. Many astrophysical and even general relativistic effects can be investigated in great detail. These lectures provide a systematic introduction to the physics/astrophysics and mathematics of black holes at a level suitable for graduate students, postdocs and researchers in physics, astrophysics, astronomy, and applied mathematics. The focus is mainly on the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way but the results can be easily generalised taking it as an example. Leading international experts provide first hand accounts of the observational and theoretical aspects of this black hole. Topics range from the properties of the Schwarzschild metric and the collapse to a black hole, to quantum gravity; and from the structure of the Galaxy to accretion of matter and the emission properties of the Galactic Center black hole.

Contents

PART 1 General introduction

The Schwarzschild black hole: a general relativistic introduction - Christian Heinicke and Friedrich W.Hehl
The Milky Way: structure, constituents and evolution - Susanne Hüttemeister
The collapse to a black hole - Gernot Neugebauer
The Environment of the galaxy's central black hole - Mark R Morris

PART 2 General relativity and black holes

Particles and fields near black holes - Valeri Frolov
Close encounters with black holes - Domenico Giulini
Quantum aspects of black holes - Claus Kiefer

PART 3 Our galactic center

The mass of the Galactic Center black hole - Andreas Eckart
Stars and singularities: stellar phenomena near a massive black hole - Tal Alexander
Black hole accretion models for the Galactic Center - Robert F Coker
Radio and x-ray emission from the galactic black hole - Heino Falcke

L'avis du libraire Eyrolles

Lorsqu'on sait que les trous noirs et la notion d'univers en expansion sont à l'origine de la théorie de la singularité communément appelée Big Bang, on comprend l'intérêt de cet ouvrage pour les cosmologues et les astrophysiciens.

L'auteur - Friedrich W. Hehl

Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Germany

L'auteur - Heino Falcke

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Institute of Physics (IOP)
Auteur(s)	Friedrich W. Hehl, Heino Falcke
Parution	24/12/2002
Nb. de pages	366
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	661g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780750308373
ISBN13	978-0-7503-0837-3