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Gravitation and Astrophysics : Proceedings of the Ninth Asia-Pacific International Conference.
Title:
Gravitation and Astrophysics : Proceedings of the Ninth Asia-Pacific International Conference.
Author:
Zhou, Ze-Bing.
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9789814307673
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1 online resource (372 pages)
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Contents -- Preface -- Gravitational Experiments -- The Newtonian Gravitational Constant: The History of the Determination and the Environmental Noise Problem for the Experimental Measurement Vadim Milyukov -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The modern history of G determination -- 3. Torsion balance is the principal tool of the experiment -- 4. Influence of environmental noise on the torsional oscillations -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- A New Determination of G with Time-of-Swing Method Shan-Qing Yang, Qing Li, Liang-Cheng Tu, Cheng-Gang Shao, Lin-Xia Liu, Qing-Lan Wang and lun Luo -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The experimental design -- 2.1. General description -- 2.2. Density inhomogeneity of the pendulum and the sources masses -- 2.2.1. The pendulum -- 2.2.2. The sources masses -- 2.3. Coating layer on the pendulum -- 2.4. Direct measurement of the anelasticity of the torsion fiber -- 2.5 -- 3. Experimental results -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Cryogenic Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law Ho lung Paik, Krishna Y. Venkateswara, M. Vol Moody and Violeta Prieto -- 1. Objective -- 2. Principle and Design -- 2.1. Source and test masses -- 2.2. Superconducting circuits -- 2.3. Capacitor plates -- 3. Procedure and Error Analysis -- 3.1. Magnetic cross-talk -- 3.2. Patch-field forces -- 3.3. Seismic nozse -- 3.4. Intrinsic noise of the detector -- 4. Data Analysis -- 5. Improvements Planned -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Testing Relativistic Gravity and Detecting Gravitational Waves in Space Wei-Tou Ni -- 1. Introduction - Mapping the Gravitational Field in the Solar System -- 2. Methods of Measurement -- 3. Demonstration of Interplanetary Laser Ranging -- 4. Missions for Testing Relativistic Gravity -- 5. Missions for Detecting Gravitational Waves.

6. The Detectability of Primordial Gravitational Waves -- 7. Outlook -- References -- Cryogenic Advanced Gravitational Wave Detector (LCGT) K. Kuroda and LCGT Collaboration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gravitational wave sources and sensitivity -- 3. Design of LCGT -- 3.1. History of revision -- 3.2. Design policy and optical design parameters -- 3.3. Tunnel construction -- 3.4. Vacuum system -- 3.5. SPI -- 3.6. Anti-vibration system -- 4. R&D -- 4.1. TAMA -- 4.2. CLIO -- 4.3. Substrate quality measuring device -- 4.4. Sensitivity improvement -- 5. Schedule and Manpower organization -- 6. Project support from neighboring research areas -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Ground-based Study of an Inertial Sensor with an Electrostatic-Controlled Torsion Pendulum Hai-Bo Tu, Yan-Zheng Bai, Lin Cai, Li Liu, lun Luo and Ze-Bing Zhou -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Operational principle of the electrostatic inertial sensor -- 3. Single degree-of-freedom measurement with an electrostatic-controlled torsion pendulum -- 4. Design of a multi-stage electrostatic-controlled torsion pendulum for further cross-couplings measurement -- 5. Discussions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Orbit Design and Optimization for the Gravitational Wave Detection of LISA Y. Xia, G. Li, Y. Luo, Z. Yi, G. Heinzel and A. RUediger -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Selection of the Starting Orbits for optimization -- 3. Tabu Search algorithm -- 4. The result of orbit design and optimization -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Angular Resolution of Multi-LISA Constellations Yan Wang and Xue-Fei Gong -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Derivation of angular resolution of multi-LISA constellation in the simplest signal model -- 3. Generalization to more complicated cases -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Development of a DMT Monitor for Statistical Tracking of Gravitational-Wave Burst triggers Generated from the OMEGA Pipeline lun- Wei Li and lun-Wei Cao -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of LIGO -- 3. Overview of DMT -- 3.1. DMT architecture -- 3.2. DMT features -- 4. OmegaMon for monitoring burst triggers -- 4.1. Overview of Omega Pipeline -- 4.2. Implementation of OmegaMon -- 4.3. Key issues in OmegaMon -- 4.4. Monitoring results of OmegaMon in the DMT viewer -- 5. Conclusions and future work -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Testing Gravitational Waves with Total-Phase-Count Doppler Tracking in Chinese Mars Mission Kun Shang, Chun-Li Dai and lin-Song Ping -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experiments and Results -- 2.1. Tracking system and Open-loop Doppler experiments -- 2.2. Total-Phase-Count algorithm and result -- 3. Testing Gravitational Waves With Total-Phase-Count Observable -- 4. Prospects -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Gravitation -- Shear Viscosity from the Effective Coupling of Gravitons Rong-Gen Cai, Zhang-Yue Nie and Ya-Wen Sun -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Shear viscosity from Ads/CFT -- 3. Shear viscosity and the effective coupling of transverse gravitons -- 3.1. Transverse Graviton -- 3.2. KSS bound violation in Gauss-Bonnet gravity -- 4. More examples from effective coupling -- 4.1. Gauss-Bonnet Gravity with F4 term corrections of Maxwell field -- 4.2. AdS Gauss-Bonnet gravity with dilaton coupling -- 4.3. Shear viscosity at zero temperature -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Principle of Relativity, 24 Possible Kinematical Algebras and New Geometries with Poincare Symmetry C.-G. Huang -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Inertial Motions and UWFH transformations -- 3. Possible Kinematical Groups -- 4. New Geometries with Poincare Symmetry -- 5. Motion of a Free Particle on (M-, g-, h_, V-) -- 6. Summary -- Acknowledgments.

References -- Physical Decomposition of the Gauge and Gravitational Fields Xiang-Song Chen and Ben-Chao Zhu -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Decomposition of the Gauge Fields -- 3. Decomposition of the Gravitational Field -- 4. Discussion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Physical Decomposition of Gauge Fields in QED and in Yang-Mills Gravity with Translation Gauge Symmetry Daniel C. Katz, Xiang-Song Chen and long-Ping Hsu -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Covariant decomposition of the electromagnetic field -- 3. Preservation of physical decompositions and gauge conditions -- 4. Physical decomposition of tensor gauge fields in Yang-Mills gravity -- 5. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- On Uniqueness of Kerr Space-Time near Null Infinity Xiao-Ning Wu -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Main theorem -- 2.1. Taylor series of general axial symmetric vacuum stationary spacetime -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves K. J . Lee, R. X. Xu and G. J. Qiao -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pulsars, binary pulsars, and tests of gravity theories -- 3. Detecting gravitational waves with pulsars -- 4. Gravitational wave radiation from pulsars -- 5. Summary and Future prospects -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Braneworld Stars: Anisotropy Minimally Projected onto the Brane J. Ovalle -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Non locality and the general relativity limit problem. -- 3. Generating a constraint in the brane -- 4. Generating the braneworld version of any known general relativistic solution -- 5. Conclusions and outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Quantum Yang-Mills Gravity: The Ghost Particle and Its Interactions long-Ping Hsu -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Gauge-Invariant Action and Gauge Conditions -- 3. Lagrange Multipliers and Ghost particles -- 4. Propagator and Interaction Vertex of the Ghost Particle -- 5. Discussions -- References.

Gravitational Energy James M. Nester -- 1. Two Special properties of gravity -- 1.1. Attraction -- 1.1.1. Test and proof -- 1.1.2. Dark energy -- 1.2. Universal -- 2. Gravitational local energy-momentum density -- 2.1. Canonical energy momentum tensor -- 2.2. Einstein and M¢ller pseudotensors -- 2.3. Other famous pseudotensors -- 2.4. The small sphere limit -- 2.5. Doubts -- 3. Geometry and gravity: quasi-local energy-momentum -- 4. Pseudotensors and the Hamiltonian boundary term -- 5. A first order geometric formulation -- 6. The Hamiltonian approach -- 6.1. Example: thermodynamics -- 6.2. Application: electromagnetism -- 7. The quasi-local Hamiltonian boundary term for GR -- 8. Some properties of our quasi-local expression -- 9. Reference choices -- 9.1. The optimal reference choice for spherical systems -- 9.2. For the FLRW space times -- 9.3. Application to Bianchi cosmologies -- 10. Negative energy -- 11. Concluding thoughts -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Astrophysics -- Interaction of Dark Energy with Other Components Sung-Won Kim and Yong-Yeon Keum -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Coupling Model -- 2.1. Noninteracting Model -- 2.2. Interacting Model of Dark Energy coupled to Dark Matter -- 3. Accretion of dark energy -- 4. Wormhole in Friedman-Roberton-Waler Universe -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Brief Introduction of Yinghuo-1 Mars Orbiter and Open-loop Tracking Techniques Jin-Song Ping, Kun Shang, Nian-Chuan lian, Ming-Yuan Wang, Su-lun Zhang, Xian Shi, Ting-Ting Han, Jing Sun, Guang-Li Wang, Jin-Ling Li and Leewo Fung -- 1. Introduction of joint YH-1 and FGSC missions -- 2. Open Loop Tracking in YH-1 Mission -- 2.1. Chinese VLBI network -- 2.2. 1-way Doppler Tracking -- 3. Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Apply Moving Puncture Method to ADM Formalism Zhou-Jian Cao and Chen-Zhou Liu -- 1. Introduction.

2. Evolution equations and puncture method.
Abstract:
The International Conference on Gravitation and Astrophysics(ICGA) is to serve the needs of research workers in astrophysics in the Asia-Pacific region. This proceedings covers a wide and hot area of research, including cosmological model, gravitational lensing, precision measurement of G, CMB, Kerr space-time, gravitational wave, the LISA, LIGO, LCGT projects in Japan, black hole, dark matter, Yang-Mills gravity, neutron star, type La supernovae, quasi-local energy, and anti-de Sitter space-time.
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