New Windows on the Universe: Advances in Multimessenger Astronomy

This book provides examples of multi-wavelength and multimessenger studies within astronomical research. The examples range widely over topics at the forefront of contemporary research and include colliding black holes and neutron stars, the discovery of planetary systems around stars other than our own, and the determination of the Hubble constant which sets the size and age scales of our universe.

The book provides a good overview of the multiple paths through which we gain physical information about the universe and relates some of the most important contemporary results. The key readership for this book is an interested general audience as well as students interested in an overview of multimessenger astronomy.

Key Features:

• Provides a broad survey of recent advances in multimessenger astronomy for a scientifically literate general audience as well as an initial survey for students
• First book covering all four natural channels of information with historical background
• Covers a diverse range of topics including stars, planets, radio pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, accretion-powered objects, and dark matter/dark energy

本書提供了天文學研究中多波長和多信使研究的例子。這些例子廣泛涵蓋了當代研究前沿的各種主題，包括碰撞的黑洞和中子星、在其他恆星周圍發現行星系統，以及確定設定我們宇宙的尺度和年齡的哈勃常數。

本書提供了關於我們如何獲取有關宇宙的物理信息的多種途徑的良好概述，並關聯了一些最重要的當代研究結果。本書的主要讀者是對多信使天文學概述感興趣的一般讀者以及學生。

主要特點：
- 為科學素養豐富的一般讀者提供了多信使天文學最新進展的廣泛調查，同時也是學生的初步調查
- 首本涵蓋所有四種自然信息渠道的書籍，並提供了歷史背景
- 涵蓋了各種主題，包括恆星、行星、射電脈衝星、伽馬射線暴、吸積動力物體以及暗物質/暗能量