Gravitational Radiation, Collapsed Objects and Exact Solutions: Proceedings of the Einstein Centenary Summer School, Held in Perth, Australia January 1979

Introduction....Pages 1-4
Gravitational radiation and the binary pulsar....Pages 5-11
Supernovae — observations and conventional interpretations....Pages 12-24
Supernovae — Current areas of research....Pages 25-33
Pulsars....Pages 34-66
The gamma ray sky at high energies. The role of pulsars as gamma ray sources....Pages 67-87
Compact radiation sources in active galactic nuclei....Pages 88-106
Some aspects of supernova theory: Implosion, explosion and expansion....Pages 107-146
The pulsar magnetosphere....Pages 147-171
On the physics of Circinus X-1. I. Periodic flares in the X-ray, optical and radio regimes....Pages 172-209
On the physics of Circinus X-1. II. Eccentricity, mass transfer rates, secular orbital effects, possible γ-ray burst, and a possible origin for circinus X-1....Pages 210-245
Einstein and gravitational radiation....Pages 246-298
Gravity wave antenna — transducer systems....Pages 299-313
Parametric upconverter transducers....Pages 314-330
Detection of gravitational radiation from pulsars....Pages 331-340
Data analysis algorithms for gravitational antenna signals....Pages 341-369
Sensitivity of a gravitational radiation antenna instrumented with dual mode transducer and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID)....Pages 370-384
Quantum non-demolition....Pages 385-426
Gravitation experiments at Stanford....Pages 427-443
Stationary axisymmetric gravitational fields: An asymptotic flatness preserving transformation....Pages 444-453
Mechanical, electrodynamical and thermodynamical properties of black holes....Pages 454-458
Electrovac perturbations of rotating black holes....Pages 459-468
Symmetries and exact solutions of Einstein's equations....Pages 469-476
Naked singularities....Pages 477-487