Modern Cosmology
ISBN: 9780128159484
Author : Fabian Schmidt
Published: 2020
Publisher: Academic Press
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 9.25×7.5
Author : Fabian Schmidt
Published: 2020
Publisher: Academic Press
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 9.25×7.5
Description
<p><i>Modern Cosmology, Second Edition,</i> provides a detailed introduction to the field of cosmology. Beginning with the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric, this trusted resource includes careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. The reader is then introduced to perturbations about an FLRW universe: their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations, their primordial generation by inflation, and their observational consequences: the acoustic peaks in the CMB; the <i>E/B</i> decomposition in polarization; gravitational lensing of the CMB and large-scale structure; and the BAO standard ruler and redshift-space distortions in galaxy clustering. The Second Edition now also covers nonlinear structure formation including perturbation theory and simulations. The book concludes with a substantially updated chapter on data analysis.</p> <p><i>Modern Cosmology, Second Edition,</i> shows how modern observations are rapidly revolutionizing our picture of the universe, and supplies readers with all the tools needed to work in cosmology.</p>
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