New textbook: “General Relativity and its Applications: Black Holes, Compact Stars and Gravitational Waves”

We would like to announce the new textboook: 

General Relativity and its Applications: Black Holes, Compact Stars and Gravitational Waves
by Valeria Ferrari, Leonardo Gualtieri, Paolo Pani; 
published by CRC Press, Taylor&Francis Group, 2020

Details of the book are available at the publisher's webpage or on Amazon.

Gravitational physics is experiencing a second Golden Age and is steadily growing in diverse directions that were unforeseeable just a
decade ago. In parallel to the prominent role acquired within the scientific community in the last few years, gravitational physics has
also attracted an ever-growing attention from students at all levels.
While historically limited to a niche audience, nowadays the teaching of General Relativity and of its phenomenological applications is
(with full rights) an essential part of any course in Physics or Astronomy. This book is addressed to third-year undergraduate and
especially to graduate students in Physics or Astrophysics, who want to learn the basics of General Relativity and its diverse
phenomenological consequences. 

This book presents some novelties with respect to standard textbooks on General Relativity. Starting from the basic pillars of the theory,
it provides -in a self-contained way- the tools to understand the most important discoveries of recent years, in particular the detection of
gravitational waves; it introduces the theory of perturbations of the Schwarzschild spacetime and of quasi-normal modes; it provides a detailed
description of rotating black holes and of some of the most interesting phenomena which occur in their neighborhood.

 

Reference:
Title:     General Relativity and its Applications: Black Holes, Compact Stars and Gravitational Waves
Authors:   Valeria Ferrari, Leonardo Gualtieri, Paolo Pani
Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor&Francis Group, 2020

 

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