Black Holes, Galaxy Clusters and Gravitational Waves

This thesis deals with three aspects of modern astrophysical research. We propose a Bayesian data analysis framework to test alternative theories of gravity using observations of Gravitational Waves (GWs) from the inspiral phase of binary systems. We compare General Relativity predictions to the one...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Del Pozzo, Walter
Published: University of Birmingham 2010
Subjects:
520
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528564