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ABS may refer to:

Anatomy[link]

• Abdominal muscles (abbreviated abs), which is the rectus abdominis or the stomach muscles

Music and media[link]

Music ensembles

• A.B.'s, a Japanese 1980s instrumental band
• Abingdon Boys School, a Japanese rock band
• American Bach Soloists, an American chamber music ensemble

Broadcasting

• ABS (TV station), the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Adelaide TV station
• ABS network, a multinational media and broadcasting network
• Akita Broadcasting System, a broadcasting station in Akita Prefecture, Japan
• Amalgamated Broadcasting System, a defunct American radio network

Other media

• Albino Blacksheep, a website

Organizations[link]

Companies

• ABS Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Baltimore, Maryland
• American Breeders Service, now ABS Global
• ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation, in the Philippines
• ABS Building Society, Australia

Governmental agencies

• Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australia's official statistical organisation

Other organizations

• American Bible Society
• American Boy Scouts, an early Scouting organization
• American Bureau of Shipping, a shipping classification society
• Animal Behavior Society
• Association of Broadcasting Staff
• Aston Business School, the business school of Aston University in Birmingham, England, UK
• All Blacks (ABs), the rugby team of New Zealand

Places[link]

• ABS, IATA airport code for Abu Simbel Airport in Abu Simbel, Egypt
• Archbold Biological Station, a research station in Florida, USA

Science & technology[link]

• Absolute value of a number, its value without regard to sign; its magnitude. abs is the associated function in many programming languages.
• Absolutive case in interlinear glossing
• Absorbance in regard to spectroscopy
• Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, a polymer or plastic
• Amniotic band syndrome
• Anti-lock braking system, an electronic automotive safety system for the vehicle braking system
• Arch Build System, a component of the package management system for the Arch Linux distribution
• Automatic Block Signal, a railroad signal system in the United States
• Rectus abdominis muscle, paired muscle running vertically on each side of the anterior wall of the human abdomen
• Abdominals, muscles of the human abdominal wall
• AirPort Base Station, part of Apple Computers' AirPort WLAN solution

Other uses[link]

• Abs (surname), list of people with the surname Abs
• Able Seaman (rank)
• Able Seaman (occupation)
• Asset-backed security, a financial term

People with the given name Abs[link]

• Abs Breen, member of the former UK boy band Five
• Michael Absalom, a former CBBC presenter, usually referred to as "Abs" on air

Fictional

• Abby Sciuto, NCIS character known by Gibbs as "Abs"
• Abs Denham, Casualty character

See also[link]

• AB (disambiguation)

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Brandon Carter
Born	1942 Australia
Fields	General relativity
Institutions	CNRS
Alma mater	Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	Dennis Sciama
Known for	Carter constant No-hair theorem Carter-Penrose diagrams Doomsday argument

Brandon Carter, FRS (born 1942) is an Australian theoretical physicist, best known for his work on the properties of black holes and for being the first to name and employ the anthropic principle in its contemporary form. He is a researcher at the Meudon campus of the Laboratoire Univers et Théories, part of the CNRS.

He studied at Cambridge under Dennis Sciama. He found the exact solution of the geodesic equations for the Kerr/Newman electrovacuum solution, and the maximal analytic extension of this solution. In the process, he discovered the extraordinary fourth constant of motion and the Killing–Yano tensor. Together with Werner Israel and Stephen Hawking, he proved the no-hair theorem in general relativity, stating that all stationary black holes are completely characterized by mass, charge, and angular momentum. More recently, Carter, Chachoua, and Chamel (2005) have formulated a relativistic theory of elastic deformations in neutron stars.

References[link]

• Carter, B. (1968). "Global structure of the Kerr family of gravitational fields". Phys. Rev. 174 (5): 1559–1571. Bibcode 1968PhRv..174.1559C. DOI:10.1103/PhysRev.174.1559. 

• Carter, B. (1968). "Hamilton-Jacobi and Schrödinger separable solutions of Einstein's equations". Commun. Math. Phys. 10 (4): 280–310. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cmp/1103841118. 

• Carter, B. (1970). "An axisymmetric black hole has only two degrees of freedom". Phys. Rev. Lett. 26 (6): 331–333. Bibcode 1971PhRvL..26..331C. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.26.331. 

• Carter, B.; & Hartle, J. B. (Editors) (1987). Gravitation in astrophysics, Cargese, 1986. New York: Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-42590-4. 

• Carter, B.; & Chachoua, Elie; & Chamel, Nicolas (2006). "Covariant Newtonian and Relativistic dynamics of (magneto)-elastic solid model for neutron star crust". General Relativity and Gravitation 38: 83–119. arXiv:gr-qc/0507006. Bibcode 2006GReGr..38...83C. DOI:10.1007/s10714-005-0210-0. 

External links[link]

• Site of the Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH)
  • Brandon Carter’s page at the LUTH (in French)