Relativistic Astrophysics of the Transient Universe : Gravitation, Hydrodynamics and Radiation.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In the coming decade, the transient universe will be mapped out in great detail by the emerging wide-field multiwavelength surveys, neutrino and gravitational-wave detectors, promising to probe the astronomical and physical origin of the most extreme relativistic sources. This volume introduces the physical processes relevant to the source modeling of the transient universe. Ideal for graduate students and researchers in astrophysics, this book gives a unified treatment of electromagnetic, hadronic and gravitational radiation processes associated with relativistic outflows from compact objects. After introducing the source classes, the authors set out the various radiation processes associated with magneto-hydrodynamic flows, such as blast waves, winds, jets and accretion. Readers will gain an understanding of the theory, observations and some methods of data analysis for gravitational-wave data"-- Provided by publisher.

Cover -- RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS OF THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Notation -- Quotation acknowledgements -- 1: A zoo of astrophysical transient sources -- 1.1 Classification of transient sources -- 1.1.1 Blazars -- 1.1.2 Microquasars and gamma-ray binaries -- 1.1.3 Pulsars and magnetars -- 1.1.4 Gamma-ray bursts -- 1.2 On the origin of compact objects -- 1.2.1 Optical-radio searches for supernovae -- 1.2.2 Observations of supernova remnants -- 1.2.3 The endpoint of compact binaries -- 1.3 Emerging multimessenger observatories -- 1.3.1 Large aperture radio telescopes -- 1.3.2 GeV-TeV photon detectors -- 1.3.3 Cosmic-ray detectors -- 1.3.4 Neutrino detectors -- 1.3.5 Ground-based gravitational-wave detectors -- 1.3.6 Transient sources as cosmic beacons -- 1.4 Exercises -- 2: Electromagnetic radiation processes -- 2.1 Definitions and notation -- 2.2 Relativistic beaming and Doppler effect -- 2.3 Some important invariants -- 2.4 Transformation rules -- 2.5 Synchrotron radiation -- 2.5.1 The total synchrotron power -- 2.5.2 Spectrum and polarization from a single particle -- 2.5.3 Spectrum and polarization from a power law distribution -- 2.5.4 Synchrotron self-absorption -- 2.5.5 Equipartition magnetic field and minimum power of a relativistic source -- 2.6 Compton scattering -- 2.6.1 Polarization -- 2.6.2 Inverse Compton scattering -- 2.6.3 The transfer equation -- 2.6.4 The total power emitted -- 2.6.5 The spectrum of Thomson scattered radiation -- 2.6.6 Compton drag and Compton rockets -- 2.6.7 Kompaneets equation -- 2.6.8 Multiple Compton scattering in a thermal electron cloud -- 2.7 Synchrotron self-Compton and the Compton catastrophe -- 2.8 Creation and annihilation of electron-positron pairs -- 2.8.1 Pair-production opacity.

8: Relativistic blast waves -- 8.1 Blast wave equations -- 8.2 Impulsive adiabatic blast wave -- 8.2.1 A uniform shell model -- 8.2.2 Self-similar solutions -- 8.3 Impulsive radiative blast wave -- 8.4 Emission from the forward shock -- 8.5 Jets and breaks -- 8.6 Early evolution: reverse shock formation -- 8.6.1 Thin shell approximation -- 8.6.2 Self-similar solutions -- 8.7 Optical flashes -- 8.8 Stability analysis -- 8.9 Exercises -- 9: Accretion disks and tori -- 9.1 Basic principles and scaling relations -- 9.2 Magneto-rotational instability -- 9.3 A hydrodynamic instability in a torus -- 9.4 Self-regulated instability around rapidly rotating black holes -- 9.5 Torus magnetospheres around rapidly rotating black holes -- 9.6 Exercises -- 10: Entropic attraction in black hole binaries -- 10.1 Entropic gravity -- 10.2 Black holes and cosmic censorship -- 10.3 Apparent horizon surfaces of black holes -- 10.4 Gravitational attraction by Gibbs' principle -- 10.5 Entropy jumps in mergers -- 10.6 Newton's law from an adiabatic variational principle -- 10.7 Newton's law for point particles -- 10.8 Exercises -- 11: Transient sources from rotating black holes -- 11.1 Alfvén waves in transient capillary jets -- 11.2 UHECRs upstream of Alfvén fronts -- 11.3 Scaling relations for the spin down time -- 11.4 Observing black hole spin down in long GRBs -- 11.5 Scale-free behavior in GRB light curves from black hole spin down -- 11.6 High frequency gravitational waves from stellar mass Kerr black holes -- 11.7 Low frequency gravitational waves from SgrA -- 11.8 Unification of ultra-relativistic transient events -- 11.9 Exercises -- 12: Searching for long bursts in gravitational waves -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Template for long duration GWBs -- 12.3 Time sliced matched filtering -- 12.4 Outlook for detections.

12.5 Electromagnetic priors in gravitational-wave searches from supernovae and long GRBs -- 12.6 Exercises -- 13: Epilogue: the multimessenger Transient Universe -- 13.1 Observational tests for multimessenger emissions from rotating black holes -- 13.2 Outlook -- Appendix A: Some properties of Kerr black holes -- Appendix B: Cosmological event rates -- Appendix C: Relaxation limited evaporation -- Appendix D: Some units and constants -- Physical constants -- Some astronomical and cosmological constants -- References -- Index.

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