James Rich: Fundamentals of Cosmology

Cover: 9783642425745 | Fundamentals of Cosmology | James Rich | Taschenbuch | ix | Englisch

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Thisisthesecondeditionofabookonthephenomenological foundations ofmodern cosmology. The ?rst edition was surprisingly well timed. In the preceding 3 years, advances in astronomy had laid the foundations of the dark-energy/dark-matter c- mological model. In 1998, observations of type Ia supernova by the Supernova C- mology Project and High Z team suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. In 2000, Boomerang and Maxima observed clearly the ?rst acoustic peak in the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background. The position of the peak strongly suggested that the density of the universe was near critical. These two observations reconciled popular in?ationary models with the heretofore embarrassing insistence by astronomers that the clumping of galaxies required that the mass density of the universe be only about 25% of the critical density. The sup- nova data told us that the rest was dark energy in the form of an effective vacuum energy or cosmological constant. The so-called LambdaCDM model became the standard model. Eight years later, the observational data has improved tremendously as a c- parison of the ?gures in the two editions will demonstrate. Surprisingly, all this incredible data has failed to ?nd any clear failure of the?CDM model. Among the observational advances, the most obvious comes from the WMAP satellitewho,alongtheground-basedexperimentslikeACBAR,yieldedtheexquisite series of peaks in the CMB temperature anisotropy spectrum shown in Fig. 7.11.

Zusammenfassung

New data - mostly WMAP5years and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from SDSS

Offers end-of-chapter exercises and a solution manual on [...]

All relevant experiments explained and reported

Well-balanced introduction without too much mathematics

Evolved from Ecole Polytechnique's outstanding educational program

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Observational Cosmology.- Coordinates and Metrics.- The Field Equations.- Friedmannology.- The Thermal History of the Universe.- Structure Formation.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Astronomie
Genre:	Mathematik , Medizin , Naturwissenschaften , Physik , Technik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	ix 328 S.
ISBN-13:	9783642425745
ISBN-10:	3642425747
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Rich, James
Auflage:	Second Edition 2010
Hersteller:	Springer-Verlag GmbH Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	235 x 155 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	James Rich
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.11.2014
Gewicht:	0,517 kg