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Disk-Accretion onto a Black Hole. II. Evolution of the Hole
- K. Thorne
- Physics
- 15 July 1974
Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity
- M. S. Morris, K. Thorne
- Physics
- 1 May 1988
Rapid interstellar travel by means of spacetime wormholes is described in a way that is useful for teaching elementary general relativity. The description touches base with Carl Sagan’s novel…
Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A
- B. Abbott, R. Abbott, P. Ubertini
- Physics
- 16 October 2017
On 2017 August 17, the gravitational-wave event GW170817 was observed by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors, and the gamma-ray burst (GRB) GRB 170817A was observed independently by the Fermi…
Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors
- L. S. Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration J. Abadie, K. Belczynski
- Physics
- 12 March 2010
We present an up-to-date, comprehensive summary of the rates for all types of compact binary coalescence sources detectable by the initial and advanced versions of the ground-based gravitational-wave…
Multipole expansions of gravitational radiation
- K. Thorne
- Physics
- 1 April 1980
This paper brings together, into a single unified notation, the multipole formalisms for gravitational radiation which various people have constructed. It also extends the results of previous…
LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
- A. Abramovici, W. Althouse, M. Zucker
- PhysicsScience
- 17 April 1992
The goal of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Project is to detect and study astrophysical gravitational waves and use data from them for research in physics and…
ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER GW150914
- B. Abbott, R. Abbott, J. Zweizig
- Physics
- 11 February 2016
The discovery of the gravitational-wave source GW150914 with the Advanced LIGO detectors provides the first observational evidence for the existence of binary black-hole systems that inspiral and…
Black Holes: The Membrane Paradigm
- K. Thorne, R. Price, D. A. MacDonald
- Physics
- 10 September 1986
The physics of black holes is explored in terms of a membrane paradigm which treats the event horizon as a two-dimensional membrane embedded in three-dimensional space. A 3+1 formalism is used to…
The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914
- The Ligo Scientific Collaboration, T. Abbott, J. Zweizig
- Physics
- 11 February 2016
A transient gravitational-wave signal, GW150914, was identified in the twin Advanced LIGO detectors on September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC. To assess the implications of this discovery, the detectors…
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