TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dodelson,Scott
TI  - Modern cosmology
SN  - 9780122191411 (hardback)
AV  - QB981 DOD
PY  - 2003///
KW  - Cosmology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-434) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -