Principles of Physical Cosmology

Name: Principles of Physical Cosmology
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Erschienen am 12. Oktober 2020

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Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
2019 Nobel Lecture: How Physical Cosmology Grew
Preface
I. The Development of Physical Cosmology
1. The Standard Cosmological Model
2. Mach's Principle and the Cosmological Principle
3. The Realm of the Nebulae
Discovery
Hubble's Test for the Space Distribution
Mapping the Galaxy Distribution
Galaxies
Coordinate and Magnitude Systems
4. Einstein's World Model
Geometry
Dynamics
Gravitational Instability
Ages of Stars and Stellar Systems
5. The Expanding Universe
Expansion Law
Line Element
Steps in the Discovery
Observational Basis for Hubble's Law
Theoretical Significance of the Expansion
Horizons
Parameters
Time and Length Scales
Gravitational Instability
The Galaxy Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density
Olbers' Paradox and the Light of the Night Sky
6. The Thermal Cosmic Background Radiation
The 2.7K Background Radiation
Blackbody Radiation in an Expanding Universe
Discovery
Aether Drift: Observation
Aether Drift: Theory
Characteristic Quantities for the CBR
Relict Neutrinos
Thermal Ionization
Recombination Rate
Coupling of Matter and the CBR
Interaction with Relativistic Particles
Helium Production
7. Alternative Cosmologies
Milne
The Steady-State Cosmology
Plasma Universe
Fractal Universe and Large-Scale Departures from Homogeneity
Noncosmological Redshifts
Is There More?
II. General Relativity and Cosmology
8. General Covariance
Scalars, Vectors, and Tensors
The Metric Tensor
Permutation Symbol
Integrals and Derivatives
The Curvature Tensor
9. Motions of Free Test Particles
Geodesic Equation of Motion
Geodesic and Synchronous Coordinates
Massless Particles
Geodesic Deviation
10. Field Equations
Scalar Field Equation
Stress-Energy Tensor
Einstein's Gravitational Field Equation
Small-Scale Limit
Weak-Field Limit
Gravitational Deflection of Light
Large-Scale Density Fluctuations in an Expanding Universe
11. Wall, String, and Spherical Solutions
Walls
Cosmic Strings
Schwarzschild Solution and Birkhoff's Theorem
Spherical Lemaitre-Tolman Solution
Gravitational Green's Function
Schwarzschild Solution in a Cosmological Model
12. Robertson-Walker Geometry
Forms for the Line Element
Spherical Trigonometry
De Sitter Solution
13. Neoclassical Cosmological Tests
Lookback Time
Angular Size Distance
The Neoclassical Tests
Evolution of Linear Density Perturbations
14. Cosmology in an Inhomogeneous Universe
The Sachs Optical Equations
Fluxes and Solid Angles
Orders of Magnitude
Ill. Topics in Modern Cosmology
15. Challenges for the Standard Model
Initial Conditions
The Dicke Coincidences
Phoenix Universe
Planck Umit
16. Walls, Strings, Monopoles, and Textures
Model Lagrangian
Domain Walls
Cosmic Strings
Hedgehogs and Monopoles
Textures
Lessons
17. Inflation
Scenario
Constraints
Density Fluctuations
18. Dark Matter
Historical Remarks
Baryonic Matter in Our Neighborhood
Cores of Galaxies
Microlensing
Hot Dork Motter
Cold Dork Motter
Cosmological Constant
Antimatter
19. Measures of the Galaxy Distribution
Correlation Functions
Galaxy Correlation Functions
Bounded Galaxy Clustering Hierarchy
Walls, Clusters, and Scaling
20. Dynamical Mass Measures
Estimates of the Density Parameter
Galaxy Relative Velocity Dispersion
The Local Group
Rich Clusters
Large-Scale Velocity Fields
21. The Large-Scale Mass Distribution
Sachs-Wolfe Relation
Layzer-lrvine Equation
Second Moments
Numerical Estimates
Lessons
22. Gravitational Evolution
Evolution of the Power Spectrum
The First Generation: Zel'dovich Pancakes
Accretion Models
Origin of the Rotation of Galaxies
The Epoch of Galaxy Formation
Scaling
23. Young Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium
Gunn-Peterson Test
Ionization
Column Densities in Clouds
Young Galaxies
Lyman-Alpha Forest Clouds
Summary
Resonance Line Shape
24. Diffuse Matter and the Cosmic Radiation Backgrounds
Thermal Bremsstrahlung
Compton-Thomson Scattering
Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Clusters
Constraints on the Intergalactic Medium
Scattering the Cosmic Background Radiation at Redshifts ? 100
Electron Scattering and Anisotropies in the CBR
Kompaneets Equation
25. Galaxy Formation
Timetable for Structure Formation
Ingredients for a Model
The Cold Dark Matter Model
Formation of Clusters of Galaxies
The First Generation in the CDM Model
Biasing and the Mean Mass Density
The Adiabatic Hot Dark Matter Model
"Top-down" and "Bottom-up" Galaxy Formation
Isocurvature Hot Dark Matter Scenarios
Explosions and the Large-Scale Velocity Field
Cosmic Fields and the Segregation of Galaxy Seeds
Primeval Magnetic Fields
Boryonic Dork Matter
26. Lessons and Issues
The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
The Contents
The Physics
The Cosmological Tests
Cosmic Evolution
The Very Early Universe
References
Index

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