Part I. Astrophysics & Observations -- Chapter 1. Quasinormal Modes of Static Ellis-Bronnikov Wormholes (Bahareh Azad) -- Chapter 2. Stationary models of relativistic viscous torus (Sayantani Lahiri) -- Chapter 3. Shadows and accretion disk images of compact objects (Petya Nedkova) -- Chapter 4. The optical appearance of compact stars: Shadows and luminous rings (Merce Guerrero) -- Chapter 5. Beyond Newtonian Dynamics of Planar CRTBP with Kerr - like Primaries (Suparna Roychowdhury) -- Part II. Extended gravity models -- Chapter 6. Neutron Stars in General Relativity and in Alternative Gravity Theories: Quasinormal Modes and Universal Relations (Fech Scen Khoo) -- Chapter 7. Introduction to stellar and substellar physics in modified gravity (Aneta Wojnar) -- Part III. Cosmology -- Chapter 8. Chameleon perfect scalar field as a geometric correction in f (R) gravity (Laura L. Parrilla) -- Chapter 9. Probing the nature of cosmic strings with gravitational waves (Lara Sousa) -- Part IV. Quantum Gravity & Mathematical Relativity -- Chapter 10. Entanglement in conformal field theory and holography (Nele Callebaut) -- Chapter 11. Coordinates are messy — not only in General Relativity (Carla Cederbaum) -- Chapter 12. Primordial Black Holes and Higgs Vacuum Decay (Ruth Gregoryz).

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