Contributor
Wald, Robert M.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Descriptionxii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:PART I: 1. Gravitational waves, stars and black holes / Valeria Ferrari -- 2. Rotating relativistic stars / John L. Friedman -- 3. Probing black holes and relativistic stars with gravitational waves / Kip S. Thorne -- 4. Astrophysical evidence for black holes / Martin J. Rees -- 5. The question of cosmic censorship / Roger Penrose -- 6. Black hole collisions, toroidal black holes, and numerical relativity / Saul A. Teukolsky -- 7. The internal structure of black holes / Werner Israel -- PART II: 8. Black holes and thermodynamics / Robert M. Wald -- 9. The statistical mechanics of black hole thermodynamics / Rafael D. Sorkin -- 10. Generalized quantum theory in evaporating black hole spacetimes / James B. Hartle -- 11. Is information lost in black holes? / Stephen W. Hawking -- 12. Quantum states of black holes / gary T. Horowitz -- CHANDA REMEMBERED: Chandra: a tribute / Kameshwar C. Wali -- Our song / Lalitha Chandrasekhar.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
Note:"A Symposium on Black Holes and Relativistic Stars was held on the University of Chicago campus on the weekend of December 14 and 15, 1996. The symposium was dedicated to the memory of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who died in August 1995. Chandra had devoted most of the last thirty years of his extraordinary scientific career to research on the theory of black holes and relativistic stars. This volume, which is based upon this symposium, also is dedicated to his memory." -- Preface
