Extracting Physics from Gravitational Waves Testing the Strong-field Dynamics of General Relativity and Inferring the Large-scale Structure of the Universe /
Tjonnie Li's thesis covers two applications of Gravitational Wave astronomy: tests of General Relativity in the strong-field regime and cosmological measurements. The first part of the thesis focuses on the so-called TIGER, i.e. Test Infrastructure for General Relativity, an innovative Bayesian...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Series: | Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19273-4 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I General Introduction
- Gravitational waves in the linearised theory of General Relativity
- Gravitational waves in the post-Newtonian formalism
- Gravitational waves: detection and sources
- Bayesian Inference
- Computational methods
- Part II Testing the Strong-field Dynamics of General Relativity
- Introduction
- Test Infrastructure for General Relativity (TIGER)
- Results
- Discussion
- Part III Inferring the Large-scale Structure of the Universe
- Introduction
- Cosmography
- Electromagnetic counterpart as redshift measurement
- Concluding remarks
- A Systematic multipole expansion
- Bibliography
- Popular-science summary.