Modern cosmology / Scott Dodelson.
Material type: TextCopyright date: ©2003Description: xiii, 440 pages. : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780122191411 (hardback)
- QB981 DOD
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-434) and index.
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
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