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Stellar Iron Core Collapse in{3+1} General Relativity andThe Gravitational Wave Signature of Core-Collapse SupernovaeDissertationeingereichtanderMathematisch-NaturwissenschaftlichenFakulta¨tderUniversita¨tPotsdamvonChristian David OttNovember2006Stellar Iron Core Collapse in{3+1} General Relativity andThe Gravitational Wave Signature of Core-Collapse SupernovaeChristian David OttDissertationAlbert-Einstein-InstitutMax-Planck-Institutfu¨rGravitationsphysikandMathematisch-NaturwissenschaftlicheFakulta¨tUniversita¨tPotsdam2006CopyrightbyChristianDavidOtt2006/2007This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. To view a copy of this license, visithttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/de/ or send a letter to CreativeCommons,543HowardStreet,5thFloor,SanFrancisco,California,94105, USA.Cover figure: Color map of the specific entropy per baryon in the equatorial plane of a new-born rapidly rotating and nonaxisymmetrically deformed neutron star at 90 ms after core2bounce. Shownaretheinner100×100km . Thecolormaprangesfrom∼0.8 k /baryon(red)Bto∼6 k /baryon(darkblue/purple).BGravitationalwavestravelatthespeedofthought.SirArthurEddingtonIhavenoideawhofirstcalculatedtheemissionofgravitationalradiationfromacollapsingstarwithrotation. RuffiniandWheeler mayhavebeen thefirst.