Gravitational Radiation, Luminous Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Burst Supernovae (Paperback)

Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Notation; 1. Superluminal motion in the quasar 3C273; 2. Curved spacetime and SgrA*; 3. Parallel transport and isometry of tangent bundles; 4. Maxwell's equations; 5. Riemannian curvature; 6. Gravitational radiation; 7. Cosmological event rates; 8. Compressible fluid dynamics; 9. Waves in relativistic magnetohydrodynamics; 10. Nonaxisymmetric waves in a torus; 11. Phenomenology of GRB supernovae; 12. Kerr black holes; 13. Luminous black holes; 14. A luminous torus in gravitational radiation; 15. GRB supernovae from rotating black holes; 16. Observational opportunities for LIGO and VIRGO; 17. Epilogue: GRB/XRF singlets, doublets? Triplets!; Appendices; References; Index.