SUBJECT
Title
Gravitational-wave astrophysics
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
3
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
The course gives an introduction to the theory of gravitational waves (GWs), GW detection, and astrophysical sources of GWs. We overview the general relativistic background of GWs, the fundamentals and capabilities of interferometric GW-detectors and their noise background, and learn tools for analyzing data output of these detectors. We also study the applicability of GW-observations in understanding the physics of the GW sources.
Readings
recommended readings:
- Peter R. Saulson: Fundamentals of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (World Scientific, 1994)
- David G. Blair: The detection of gravitational waves (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
- Jolien D. E. Creighton, Warren G. Anderson: Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy (Wiley, 2011)