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By
Scott Dodelson, NASA Fermilab Astrophysics Center, Illinois, U.S.A.,
University of Chicago Department of
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Description
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.
Audience
Researchers in physics, astronomy, and astrophysics, as well as some beginning graduate students.
Contents
1. The Standard Model and Beyond
2. The Smooth, Expanding Universe;
3. Beyond Equilibrium
4. The Boltzmann Equations
5. Einstein Equations
6. Initial Conditions
7. Inhomogeneities
8. Anisotropies
9. Probes of Inhomogeneities
10. Weak Lensing and Polarization
11. Analysis
A. Solutions to Selected Problems
B. Symbols
C. Numbers
D. Special Functions
Bibliography
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Hardbound, 440 pages, publication date: MAR-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-219141-1
ISBN-10: 0-12-219141-2
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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