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Modern cosmology / Scott Dodelson

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston ; London ; San Francisco ; New York ; Oxford ; Singapore ; Sydney ; Paris ; Tokyo ; San Diego : Academic Press, an Imprint of Elsevier, 2003Description: XIII, 440 Seiten : IllustrationenISBN:
  • 9780122191411
  • 0122191412
  • 9780080511979
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: 9780080511979 | 9786611036249 | 9780122191411 | Erscheint auch als: Modern cosmology. Druck-Ausgabe Amsterdam [u.a.] : Academic Press, 2003. XIII, 440 SeitenDDC classification:
  • 523.1
RVK: RVK: US 2000Online resources: Summary: Modern Cosmology begins with an introduction to the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric, including careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. From this starting point, the reader is introduced to perturbations about an FRW universe: their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations, their generation by primordial inflation, and their observational consequences. These consequences include the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) featuring acoustic peaks and polarization, the matter power spectrum with baryonic wiggles, and their detection via photometric galaxy surveys, redshift distortions, cluster abundances, and weak lensing. The book concludes with a long chapter on data analysis. Modern Cosmology is the first book to explain in detail the structure of the acoustic peaks in the CMB, the E/B decomposition in polarization which may allow for detection of primordial gravity waves, and the modern analysis techniques used on increasingly large cosmological data sets. Readers will gain the tools needed to work in cosmology and learn how modern observations are rapidly revolutionizing our picture of the universe. * Provides foundations, calculations, and interpretations which illuminate current thinking in cosmology * Covers the major advances in cosmology over the past decade * Includes over 100 unique, pedagogical figures.Summary: Front Cover -- Modern Cosmology -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1. The Standard Model and Beyond -- 1.1 The Expanding Universe -- 1.2 The Hubble Diagram -- 1.3 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis -- 1.4 The Cosmic Microwave Background -- 1.5 Beyond the Standard Model -- 1.6 Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 2. The Smooth, Expanding Universe -- 2.1 General Relativity -- 2.2 Distances -- 2.3 Evolution of Energy -- 2.4 Cosmic Inventory -- 2.5 Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 3. Beyond Equilibrium -- 3.1 Boltzmann Equation for Annihilation -- 3.2 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis -- 3.3 Recombination -- 3.4 Dark Matter -- 3.5 Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 4. The Boltzmann Equations -- 4.1 The Boltzmann Equation for the Harmonic Oscillator -- 4.2 The Collisionless Boltzmann Equation for Photons -- 4.3 Collision Terms: Compton Scattering -- 4.4 The Boltzmann Equation for Photons -- 4.5 The Boltzmann Equation for Cold Dark Matter -- 4.6 The Boltzmann Equation for Baryons -- 4.7 Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 5. Einstein Equations -- 5.1 The Perturbed Ricci Tensor and Scalar -- 5.2 Two Components of the Einstein Equations -- 5.3 Tensor Perturbations -- 5.4 The Decomposition Theorem -- 5.5 From Gauge to Gauge -- 5.6 Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 6. Initial Conditions -- 6.1 The Einstein-Boltzmann Equations at Early Times -- 6.2 The Horizon -- 6.3 Inflation -- 6.4 Gravity Wave Production -- 6.5 Scalar Perturbations -- 6.6 Summary and Spectral Indices -- Exercises -- Chapter 7. Inhomogeneities -- 7.1 Prelude -- 7.2 Large Scales -- 7.3 Small Scales -- 7.4 Numerical Results and Fits -- 7.5 Growth Function -- 7.6 Beyond Cold Dark Matter -- Exercises -- Chapter 8. Anisotropies -- 8.1 Overview -- 8.2 Large-Scale Anisotropies -- 8.3 Acoustic Oscillations -- 8.4 Diffusion Damping -- 8.5 Inhomogeneities to Anisotropies -- 8.6 The Anisotropy Spectrum Today.PPN: PPN: 1651265542Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-38-EBR | ZDB-89-EBL | ZDB-30-PAD | ZDB-30-PQE
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