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A brief overview of Hawking radiation
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Hawking Radiation Hawking published a shocking result: if one takes quantum theory into account, it seems that black holes are not quite black! Instead, they should glow slightly with Hawking radiation, consisting of photons, neutrinos, and to a lesser extent all sorts...An simple introduction to black hole thermodynamics
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Black Hole Thermodynamics This document was written by David M. Harrison, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, mailto:harrison@physics.utoronto.ca. in November, 1999. This is version 1.9, date (m/d/y) 04/10/02. This document is Copyright 1999 2002 by David M. Harrison This material may be distributed...A review of black hole thermodynamics
http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~wwwthe/lectures/itfuu-0196.ps
A brief introduction to quantum aspects of black holes.
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202032
A tutorial in the actual computation of Unruh, Hawking, Gibbons and other radiation
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0010055
This review includes discussion of classical black hole thermodynamics, Hawking radiation from black holes, the generalized second law, and the issue of entropy bounds.
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9912119
An elementary introduction is given to the problem of black hole entropy as formulated by Bekenstein and Hawking.
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9807045