Author : Andrew R. Liddle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521575980
A thorough and up-to-date graduate textbook on the most promising theory of the universe - inflationary cosmology.
Author : David H. Lyth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139643746
The origin and evolution of the primordial perturbation is the key to understanding structure formation in the earliest stages of the Universe. It carries clues to the types of physical phenomena active in that extreme high-density environment. Through its evolution, generating first the observed cosmic microwave background anisotropies and later the distribution of galaxies and dark matter in the Universe, it probes the properties and dynamics of the present Universe. This graduate-level textbook gives a thorough account of theoretical cosmology and perturbations in the early Universe, describing their observational consequences and showing how to relate such observations to primordial physical processes, particularly cosmological inflation. With ambitious observational programmes complementing ever-increasing sophistication in theoretical modelling, cosmological studies will remain at the cutting edge of astrophysical studies for the foreseeable future.
Author : P. J. E. Peebles
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691209839
The classic account of the structure and evolution of the early universe from Nobel Prize–winning physicist P. J. E. Peebles An instant landmark on its publication, The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe remains the essential introduction to this vital area of research. Written by one of the world's most esteemed theoretical cosmologists, it provides an invaluable historical introduction to the subject, and an enduring overview of key methods, statistical measures, and techniques for dealing with cosmic evolution. With characteristic clarity and insight, P. J. E. Peebles focuses on the largest known structures—galaxy clusters—weighing the empirical evidence of the nature of clustering and the theories of how it evolves in an expanding universe. A must-have reference for students and researchers alike, this edition of The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe introduces a new generation of readers to a classic text in modern cosmology.
Author : Andrei Linde
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 1990-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783718604906
A monograph on inflationary cosmology and cosmological phase transitions, investigating modern cosmology's relationship to elementary particle physics. This work also includes a non-technical discussion of inflationary cosmology for those unfamiliar with the theory.
Author : T. Padmanabhan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521424868
This text provides an up-to-date and pedagogical introduction to this exciting area of research.
Author : J. A. Peacock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521422703
A comprehensive and authoritative introduction to contemporary cosmology for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.
Author : Alan Guth
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 1998-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780201328400
This is the compelling, first-hand account of Alan Guth's paradigm-breaking discovery of the origins of the universe—and of his dramatic rise from young researcher to physics superstar. Guth's startling theory—widely regarded as one of the most important contributions to science during the twentieth century—states that the big bang was set into motion by a period of hyper-rapid “inflation,” lasting only a billion-trillion-billionth of a second. The Inflationary Universe is the passionate story of one leading scientist's effort to look behind the cosmic veil and explain how the universe began.
Author : David H. Lyth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319227440
This book gives an accessible account of the history of the Universe; not only what happened, but why it happened. An author of textbooks on the early Universe and inflation, David Lyth now explains both cosmology and the underlying physics to the general reader. The book includes a detailed account of the almost imperceptible structure in the early Universe, and its probable origin as a quantum fluctuation during an early epoch known as the epoch of inflation. It also explains how that early structure is visible now in the cosmic microwave radiation which is our main source of information about the early Universe, and how it gave rise to galaxies and stars. The main text of the book assumes no knowledge of mathematics or physics so that it is accessible to everybody, while an appendix contains more advanced material. As a result the book will be useful for a wide spectrum of readers, including high-school students, undergraduates, postgraduates and professional physicists working in areas other than cosmology. It will also serve as “additional reading” for university courses in general astronomy, astrophysics or cosmology itself.
Author : Georg Wolschin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 364210598X
The lectures that four authors present in this volume investigate core topics related to the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Accelerated expansion occured in the ?36 very early Universe – an exponential expansion in the in ationary period 10 s after the Big Bang. This well-established theoretical concept had rst been p- posed in 1980 by Alan Guth to account for the homogeneity and isotropy of the observable universe, and simultaneously by Alexei Starobinski, and has since then been developed by many authors in great theoretical detail. An accelerated expansion of the late Universe at redshifts z
Author : Scott Dodelson
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0122191412
An advanced text for senior undergraduates, graduate students and physical scientists in fields outside cosmology. This is a self-contained book focusing on the linear theory of the evolution of density perturbations in the universe, and the anisotropiesin the cosmic microwave background.
