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9780226100982

Relativistic Astrophysics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226100982

  • ISBN10:

    0226100987

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1990-05-11
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

This is the fifth of six volumes collecting significant papers of the distinguished astrophysicist and Nobel laureate S. Chandrasekhar. His work is notable for its breadth as well as for its brilliance; his practice has been to change his focus from time to time to pursue new areas of research. The result has been a prolific career full of discoveries and insights, some of which are only now being fully appreciated. Chandrasekhar has selected papers that trace the development of his ideas and that present aspects of his work not fully covered in the books he has periodically published to summarize his research in each area. Volume 5 covers all of Chandrasekhar's contributions to the general theory of relativity and relativity's astrophysical applications (except his research on black holes and colliding gravitational waves, which is covered in Volume 6). The major topics include the influence of general relativity on the pulsations and stability of stars; the back reaction of gravitational waves on their sources; and post-Newtonian approximations to general relativity and their astrophysical applications. In addition to research papers, the volume includes two 1972 lectures in which Chandrasekhar assessed the past, present, and future of relativistic astrophysics. The foreword by astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne is an absorbing, brief history of the field since 1961, capturing the atmosphere of the early research and clarifying Chandrasekhar's dominant role in it. Chandrasekhar has never written a monograph synthesizing his research in relativistic astrophysics, and therefore this volume of his papers serves as a summary of that work for students and more senior researchers.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Relativistic Instabilities and Post-Newtonian Approximations
Dynamical Instability of Gaseous Masses Approaching the Schwarzschild Limit in General Relativity
Physical Review Letters12, no. 4 (January 1964)p. 114-116
Physical Review Letters12, no. 5 (April 1964)
The Dynamical Instability of Gaseous Masses Approaching the Schwarzschild Limit in General Relativity
The Astrophysical Journal140, no. 2 (August 1964)p. 417-33
The Dynamical Instability of the White-Dwarf Configurations
Occurrence Approaching the Limiting Mass. With R. F. Tooper
The Astrophysical Journal139, no. 4 (May 1964)p. 1396-98
The Virial Theorem in General Relativity in the Post-Newtonian Approximation. With G. Contopoulos
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences49, no. 5 (May 1963)p. 608-13
On a Post-Galilean Transformation Appropriate to the Post-Newtonian Theory of Einstein, Infeld and Hoffman. With G. Contopoulos
Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, 298 (April 1967)p. 123-41
The Post-Newtonian Equations of Hydrodynamics in General Relativity
The Astrophysical Journal142, no. 4 (November 1965)p. 1488-1512
Conservation Laws in General Relativity and in the Post-Newtonian Approximations
The Astrophysical Journal158, no. 1 (October 1969)p. 45-54
The Second Post-Newtonian Equations of Hydrodynamics in General Relativity. With Yavuz Nutku
The Astrophysical Journal158, no. 1 (October 1969)p. 55-79
The 2 1/2-Post-Newtonian Equations of Hydrodynamics and Radiation Reaction in General Relativity. With F. Paul Esposito The Astrophysical Journal 160, no. 1 (April 1970)p. 153-79
Post-Newtonian Methods and Conservation Laws
Relativity, ed. M. Carmeli, S. I. Fickler, and L. Witten (Plenum Press, 1970), 81-108
The Stability of Gaseous Masses for Radial and Non-Radial Oscillations in the Post-Newtonian Approximation of General Relativity
The Astrophysical Journal142, no. 4 (November 1965)p. 1519-40
On the Onset of Relativistic Instability in Highly Centrally Condensed Stars. With Norman R. Lebovitz Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 207, no. 2 (March 1984)p. 13p-16p
Solutions of Two Problems in the Theory of Gravitational Radiation
Physical Review Letters24, no. 11 (March 1970)p. 611-15
The Effect of Gravitational Radiation on the Secular Stability of the Maclaurin Spheroid
The Astrophysical Journal161, no. 2 (August 1970)p. 561-69
Proceedings at Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Observatory92, no. 989 (August 1972)p. 116-20
The Stability of Stellar Masses in General Relativity
Proceedings of the First European Astronomical Meeting, Athens, September 4-9, 1972, vol. 3 (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1974), 162-65
The Stability of Relativistic Systems
Gravitational Radiation and Gravitational Collapse, ed. C. De
Witt-Morette (D. Reidel, 1974), 63-81
The Post-Newtonian Effects of General Relativity on the Equilibrium of Uniformly Rotating Bodies. I, The Maclaurin Spheroids and the Virial Theorem
The Astrophysical Journal142, no. 4 (November 1965)p. 1513-18
The Post-Newtonian Effects of General Relativity on the Equilibrium of Uniformly Rotating Bodies. II, The Deformed Figures of the Maclaurin Spheroids
The Astrophysical Journal147, no. 1 (January 1967)p. 334-52
The Post-Newtonian Effects of General Relativity on the Equilibrium of Uniformly Rotating Bodies. III, The Deformed Figures of the Jacobi Ellipsoids
The Astrophysical Journal148, no. 2 (May 1967)p. 621-44
The Post-Newtonian Effects of General Relativity on the Equilibrium of Uniformly Rotating Bodies. IV, The Roche Model
The Astrophysical Journal148, no. 2 (May 1967)p. 645-49
The Post-Newtonian Effects of General Relativity on the Equilibrium of Uniformly Rotating Bodies. V, The Deformed Figures of the Maclaurin Spheroids (Continued)The
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