Black holes, gravitational radiation and the universe

Iyer, B.R. Ed.; Bhawal, B. Ed.

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dc.contributor.author	Iyer, B.R. Ed.	-
dc.contributor.author	Bhawal, B. Ed.	-
dc.date.accessioned	2014-12-30T10:28:40Z	-
dc.date.available	2014-12-30T10:28:40Z	-
dc.date.issued	1999	-
dc.identifier.citation	Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers ,1999	en
dc.identifier.isbn	9789401709347	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/6122	-
dc.description	Open Access	en
dc.description.abstract	Our esteemed colleague C. V. Vishveshwara, popularly known as Vishu, turned sixty on 6th March 1998. His colleagues and well wishers felt that it would be appropriate to celebrate the occasion by bringing out a volume in his honour. Those of us who have had the good fortune to know Vishu, know that he is unique, in a class by himself. Having been given the privilege to be the volume's editors, we felt that we should attempt something different in this endeavour. Vishu is one of the well known relativists from India whose pioneer ing contributions to the studies of black holes is universally recognised. He was a student of Charles Misner. His Ph. D. thesis on the stability of the Schwarzschild black hole, coordinate invariant characterisation of the sta tionary limit and event horizon for Kerr black holes and subsequent seminal work on quasi-normal modes of black holes have passed on to become the starting points for detailed mathematical investigations on the nature of black holes. He later worked on other aspects related to black holes and compact objects. Many of these topics have matured over the last thirty years. New facets have also developed and become current areas of vigorous research interest. No longer are black holes, ultracompact objects or event horizons mere idealisations of mathematical physicists but concrete entities that astrophysicists detect, measure and look for. Astrophysical evidence is mounting up steadily for black holes.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers	en
dc.relation.uri	http://www.springer.com/physics/theoretical,+mathematical+%26+computational+physics/book/978-0-7923-5308-9	en
dc.rights	1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers	en
dc.subject	Accreation	en
dc.subject	Cosmology	en
dc.subject	Universe	en
dc.subject	Astrophysics	en
dc.subject	Essays in Honor of C.V. Vishveshwara	en
dc.subject.classification	Theoretical Physics	en
dc.title	Black holes, gravitational radiation and the universe	en
dc.type	Book	en
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