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Format: 1 online resource (422 pages)

ISBN: 9783030742072 , 3030742075

Series Statement: Astronomers' Universe

Note: Intro -- Preface -- Read This Before You Jump-in at the Deep End -- How to Read This Book -- Numbers -- Units -- Constants, Definitions, Quantities, Symbols and Units -- Topicality -- Contents -- 1: 14th September 2015 -- On the Significance of 1/400 of a Proton's Diameter -- What, Then Caused {10} GW150914? -- 2: Gravity: From 850,000,000 BCE to 1915 CE -- From Pre-History to Galileo -- Introduction -- In the Beginning -- Galileo -- Brahe and Kepler -- Newton -- Newton to Einstein: The Interregnum -- The Gravitational Constant -- Different Types of Mass: The Equivalence Principle -- Into the Nineteenth Century: And the Discrepancies Start to Appear -- Uranus' Positional Anomaly -- Mercury's Perihelion Positional Anomaly -- 3: Gravity: From 1915-Through Today-And on Towards Tomorrow -- Einstein -- Relativity -- Special Relativity -- General Relativity -- But What About Spacecraft? -- General Relativity: The Small Print -- General Relativity: The Nitty Gritty -- Testing General Relativity -- Mercury's Perihelion Problem: First Test -- The Bending of Light Beams: Second Test -- Gravitational Lensing -- Gravitational Redshift: Third Test -- The Shapiro Effect: Fourth Test -- Rotating Frames of Reference -- Gravity into the Future -- 4: Gravitational Waves: The Long, Long Journey from Half-Seen Chimeras to Highly Studied Certainties -- Introduction -- Gravitational Waves up to Einstein -- Gravitational Waves After Einstein -- Gravitational Waves: The Real Thing -- 5: Gravitational Waves: Origins and Sources -- Introduction -- Potentially Observable Sources of Gravitational Waves -- Burst Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Continuous Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Inspiral Type Gravitational Wave Sources (Binary Merger Type Gravitational Wave Sources) -- Stochastic Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Frequencies. , {90} GW170817: Three Detectors and Two Neutron Stars -- Some Final Questions and Thoughts About Gravitational Wave Sources -- Does the Earth Generate Gravitational Waves? -- Does the Earth Generate Gravitational Waves Which We Can Detect? -- What About Making Our Own Detectable Gravitational Waves Then? -- Suppose Some Event Produced Intense Gravitational Waves Very Nearby -- Could I Be Injured? -- OK: Could the Earth/Sun/Solar System Be Affected Then? -- Gravitational Wave Sources: The First Nobel Prize -- Neutron Stars and Pulsars -- What Makes a Clock a Good Clock? -- Pulsar Clocks -- PSR B1913+16 -- 6: Gravitational Wave Events: Calling the Roll -- Introduction -- Individual Gravitational Wave Events -- Observational Run O1 -- {10} GW150914 -- {20} GW151012 -- {30} GW151226 -- Observational Run O2 -- {40} GW170104 -- {50} GW170608 -- {70} GW170809 -- {80} GW170814 -- {90} GW170817 -- {100} GW170818 -- Observational Runs O3a and O3b -- {180} GW190425z -- {270} GW190521g -- {430} GW190814bv -- {520} GW190924h -- 7: Into the Unknown: The First Years of the Quest for Gravitational Waves -- Introduction -- Weber's Gravitational Wave Detector -- Other Resonant Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Material -- Cooling -- Mechanical Noise Reduction -- Detection -- Shape -- Detectors -- 8: Eureka!: A Beginner's Guide to Making Successful Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Introduction -- Michelson and Morley -- The Present Day Scene -- The Next Few Years -- Interferometer-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors: The Devil Is in the Details -- General Noise -- Thermal Noise -- Shot Noise -- Refractive Index -- Shields and Baffles -- The Light Source -- Preparing the Initial Light Beam -- Beam Splitter -- The Light Beams Within the Arms -- Delay Line -- Fabry-Perot Cavities -- Frequency Limits -- Resonances -- Efficiency -- The Mirrors -- Test Masses and Their Supports. , The Mirrors Themselves -- Recombining the Beams -- Detection -- Optical Detectors -- Gravitational Wave Signatures -- Ancillary Items -- Putting It All Together -- Getting It Going -- The Detectors -- 9: Gravitational Waves and Their Detectors: Into the Future-And Beyond -- So, You Want to be an Amateur Gravitational Wave Astronomer, Do You? -- Build Your Own -- Become a Professional -- Keep in Touch -- Join in the Fun -- The Near(ish) Future -- The Future of Resonant Bar-Type Gravitational Wave Detectors -- The Future of Terrestrial Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detectors -- AdvLIGO, AdvVirgo and GEO600/GEO H-F -- KAGRA -- Slightly Further into the Future -- Atom Interferometers -- The Future of Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Doppler Tracking -- Space-Based Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Pulsar Timing Gravitational Wave Detectors -- The Long-Odds Runners -- Associated Events -- The Far Future -- Observing the Faintest of All Gravitational Waves -- Gravitational Waves: The Discovery of the Millennium? -- Gravitics -- Faster than Light? #1 -- Faster than Light? #2 -- Faster than Light? #3 -- SETI -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Memory Refreshers -- Appendix ☆ A.1: The Index Notation for Numbers -- Introduction -- The Index Notation for Numbers -- Large Numbers -- Small Numbers -- Index Notation: A Bonus -- And a Final Note: On 22, 40.5 and 3−1, etc. -- Appendix ☆ A.2: The Index Notation for Units -- Appendix ☆☆ A.3: The Inverse-Square Law -- Appendix B: Further Study -- Appendix ☆☆ B.1: Centrifugal and Centripetal forces -- Appendix ☆☆☆ B.2: Angular Momentum -- Linear Momentum -- Angular Momentum -- Appendix ☆☆ B.3: Static and Rotating Black Holes and Gravitational Waves -- Appendix ☆☆ B.4: Light-Particle or Wave? -- Appendix C: For the High Fliers -- Appendix ☆☆☆ C.1: Does Light have Mass? and/or Momentum?. , Appendix ☆☆ C.2: Tensor Analysis -- Appendix ☆☆☆ C.3: Fabry-Perot Cavities -- Appendix D: Constants, Definitions, Quantities, Symbols and Units -- Système International D'unités, or SI System -- Convention -- SI Prefixes -- Bibliography -- Other Books by C.R. Kitchin -- Gravity -- Gravitational Waves and Their Detectors -- Special/General Relativity -- Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Other Compact Objects -- Physics -- Electricity and Magnetism -- General -- Light and Optics -- Mathematics -- Index.

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Language: English

Subjects: Physics

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Format: XIV, 413 p. , online resource.

Edition: 1st ed. 2021.

ISBN: 9783030742072

Series Statement: Astronomers' Universe,

Content: The birth of a completely new branch of observational astronomy is a rare and exciting occurrence. For a long time, our theories about gravitational waves-proposed by Albert Einstein and others more than a hundred years ago-could never be fully proven, since we lacked the proper technology to do it. That all changed when, on September 14, 2015, instruments at the LIGO Observatory detected gravitational waves for the first time. This book explores the nature of gravitational waves-what they are, where they come from, why they are so significant and why nobody could prove they existed before now. Written in plain language and interspersed with additional explanatory tutorials, it will appeal to lay readers, science enthusiasts, physical science students, amateur astronomers and to professional scientists and astronomers.

Note: Chapter 1. 14th September 2015 -- Chapter 2. Gravity - From 850,000,000 BCE to 1915 CE -- Chapter 3. Gravity - From 1915 - through Today - and on towards Tomorrow -- Chapter 4. Gravitational Waves - The Long, Long Journey from Half-Seen Chimeras to Highly Studied Certainties -- Chapter 5. Gravitational Waves - Origins and Sources -- Chapter 6. Gravitational Wave Events - Calling the Roll -- Chapter 7. Into the Unknown - the First Years of the Quest for Gravitational Waves -- Chapter 8. Eureka! - A Beginner's Guide to Making Successful Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Chapter 9. Gravitational Waves and their Detectors - Into the Future - and Beyond.

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Additional Edition: Printed edition: ISBN 9783030742065

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74207-2

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Format: 1 online resource (422 pages)

ISBN: 3-030-74207-5

Series Statement: Astronomers' Universe

Note: Intro -- Preface -- Read This Before You Jump-in at the Deep End -- How to Read This Book -- Numbers -- Units -- Constants, Definitions, Quantities, Symbols and Units -- Topicality -- Contents -- 1: 14th September 2015 -- On the Significance of 1/400 of a Proton's Diameter -- What, Then Caused {10} GW150914? -- 2: Gravity: From 850,000,000 BCE to 1915 CE -- From Pre-History to Galileo -- Introduction -- In the Beginning -- Galileo -- Brahe and Kepler -- Newton -- Newton to Einstein: The Interregnum -- The Gravitational Constant -- Different Types of Mass: The Equivalence Principle -- Into the Nineteenth Century: And the Discrepancies Start to Appear -- Uranus' Positional Anomaly -- Mercury's Perihelion Positional Anomaly -- 3: Gravity: From 1915-Through Today-And on Towards Tomorrow -- Einstein -- Relativity -- Special Relativity -- General Relativity -- But What About Spacecraft? -- General Relativity: The Small Print -- General Relativity: The Nitty Gritty -- Testing General Relativity -- Mercury's Perihelion Problem: First Test -- The Bending of Light Beams: Second Test -- Gravitational Lensing -- Gravitational Redshift: Third Test -- The Shapiro Effect: Fourth Test -- Rotating Frames of Reference -- Gravity into the Future -- 4: Gravitational Waves: The Long, Long Journey from Half-Seen Chimeras to Highly Studied Certainties -- Introduction -- Gravitational Waves up to Einstein -- Gravitational Waves After Einstein -- Gravitational Waves: The Real Thing -- 5: Gravitational Waves: Origins and Sources -- Introduction -- Potentially Observable Sources of Gravitational Waves -- Burst Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Continuous Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Inspiral Type Gravitational Wave Sources (Binary Merger Type Gravitational Wave Sources) -- Stochastic Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Frequencies. , {90} GW170817: Three Detectors and Two Neutron Stars -- Some Final Questions and Thoughts About Gravitational Wave Sources -- Does the Earth Generate Gravitational Waves? -- Does the Earth Generate Gravitational Waves Which We Can Detect? -- What About Making Our Own Detectable Gravitational Waves Then? -- Suppose Some Event Produced Intense Gravitational Waves Very Nearby -- Could I Be Injured? -- OK: Could the Earth/Sun/Solar System Be Affected Then? -- Gravitational Wave Sources: The First Nobel Prize -- Neutron Stars and Pulsars -- What Makes a Clock a Good Clock? -- Pulsar Clocks -- PSR B1913+16 -- 6: Gravitational Wave Events: Calling the Roll -- Introduction -- Individual Gravitational Wave Events -- Observational Run O1 -- {10} GW150914 -- {20} GW151012 -- {30} GW151226 -- Observational Run O2 -- {40} GW170104 -- {50} GW170608 -- {70} GW170809 -- {80} GW170814 -- {90} GW170817 -- {100} GW170818 -- Observational Runs O3a and O3b -- {180} GW190425z -- {270} GW190521g -- {430} GW190814bv -- {520} GW190924h -- 7: Into the Unknown: The First Years of the Quest for Gravitational Waves -- Introduction -- Weber's Gravitational Wave Detector -- Other Resonant Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Material -- Cooling -- Mechanical Noise Reduction -- Detection -- Shape -- Detectors -- 8: Eureka!: A Beginner's Guide to Making Successful Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Introduction -- Michelson and Morley -- The Present Day Scene -- The Next Few Years -- Interferometer-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors: The Devil Is in the Details -- General Noise -- Thermal Noise -- Shot Noise -- Refractive Index -- Shields and Baffles -- The Light Source -- Preparing the Initial Light Beam -- Beam Splitter -- The Light Beams Within the Arms -- Delay Line -- Fabry-Perot Cavities -- Frequency Limits -- Resonances -- Efficiency -- The Mirrors -- Test Masses and Their Supports. , The Mirrors Themselves -- Recombining the Beams -- Detection -- Optical Detectors -- Gravitational Wave Signatures -- Ancillary Items -- Putting It All Together -- Getting It Going -- The Detectors -- 9: Gravitational Waves and Their Detectors: Into the Future-And Beyond -- So, You Want to be an Amateur Gravitational Wave Astronomer, Do You? -- Build Your Own -- Become a Professional -- Keep in Touch -- Join in the Fun -- The Near(ish) Future -- The Future of Resonant Bar-Type Gravitational Wave Detectors -- The Future of Terrestrial Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detectors -- AdvLIGO, AdvVirgo and GEO600/GEO H-F -- KAGRA -- Slightly Further into the Future -- Atom Interferometers -- The Future of Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Doppler Tracking -- Space-Based Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Pulsar Timing Gravitational Wave Detectors -- The Long-Odds Runners -- Associated Events -- The Far Future -- Observing the Faintest of All Gravitational Waves -- Gravitational Waves: The Discovery of the Millennium? -- Gravitics -- Faster than Light? #1 -- Faster than Light? #2 -- Faster than Light? #3 -- SETI -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Memory Refreshers -- Appendix ☆ A.1: The Index Notation for Numbers -- Introduction -- The Index Notation for Numbers -- Large Numbers -- Small Numbers -- Index Notation: A Bonus -- And a Final Note: On 22, 40.5 and 3−1, etc. -- Appendix ☆ A.2: The Index Notation for Units -- Appendix ☆☆ A.3: The Inverse-Square Law -- Appendix B: Further Study -- Appendix ☆☆ B.1: Centrifugal and Centripetal forces -- Appendix ☆☆☆ B.2: Angular Momentum -- Linear Momentum -- Angular Momentum -- Appendix ☆☆ B.3: Static and Rotating Black Holes and Gravitational Waves -- Appendix ☆☆ B.4: Light-Particle or Wave? -- Appendix C: For the High Fliers -- Appendix ☆☆☆ C.1: Does Light have Mass? and/or Momentum?. , Appendix ☆☆ C.2: Tensor Analysis -- Appendix ☆☆☆ C.3: Fabry-Perot Cavities -- Appendix D: Constants, Definitions, Quantities, Symbols and Units -- Système International D'unités, or SI System -- Convention -- SI Prefixes -- Bibliography -- Other Books by C.R. Kitchin -- Gravity -- Gravitational Waves and Their Detectors -- Special/General Relativity -- Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Other Compact Objects -- Physics -- Electricity and Magnetism -- General -- Light and Optics -- Mathematics -- Index.

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Language: English