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Stephen William Hawking: A Biographical Memoir
Bernard J. Carr, George F. R. Ellis, Gary W. Gibbons +5
Stephen Hawking's contributions to the understanding of gravity, black holes and cosmology were truly immense. They began with the singularity theorems in the 1960s followed by his…
John Archibald Wheeler: A Biographical Memoir
Kip S. Thorne
John Archibald Wheeler was a theoretical physicist who worked on both down-to-earth projects and highly speculative ideas, and always emphasized the importance of experiment and ob…
Spectroscopic Binaries and Collapsed Stars: Part II
Virginia Trimble, Kip S. Thorne
Fifty years ago, borrowing an idea from our Russian friends Guseinov and Zeldovich, we looked for very compact stars (neutron stars and black holes, in modern terminology) as optic…
All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1042
We report on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 20-475 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of [-1.0, +0.1]e-8 Hz/s. Such a si…
Geometrodynamics: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Curved Spacetime
Mark A. Scheel, Kip S. Thorne
We review discoveries in the nonlinear dynamics of curved spacetime, largely made possible by numerical solutions of Einstein's equations. We discuss critical phenomena and self-si…
Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in the Movie Interstellar
Oliver James, Eugenie von Tunzelmann, Paul Franklin +1
Interstellar is the first Hollywood movie to attempt depicting a black hole as it would actually be seen by somebody nearby. For this we developed a code called DNGR (Double Negati…