Modern Cosmology
2nd Edition
Published on 18. April 2020
512 pages
978-0-12-815949-1 (ISBN)
Description
Modern Cosmology, Second Edition, 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 E/B 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.
Modern Cosmology, Second Edition, shows how modern observations are rapidly revolutionizing our picture of the universe, and supplies readers with all the tools needed to work in cosmology.
- Offers a unique and practical approach for learning how to perform cosmological calculations.
- New material on theory, simulations, and analysis of nonlinear structure.
- Substantial updates on new developments in cosmology since the previous edition.
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Scott Dodelson | Fabian Schmidt
Modern Cosmology
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07/2020
2nd Edition
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Persons
Scott Dodelson is Head of the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and was a research fellow at Harvard before moving to Fermilab, the University of Chicago, and Carnegie Mellon. He is the author of more than 200 papers on cosmology, most of which focus on the cosmic microwave background and the large-scale structure of the universe. Dodelson serves as the co-Chair of the Science Committee of the Dark Energy Survey.Fabian Schmidt is a research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA) in Garching, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago in 2009, and moved to MPA after fellowships at Caltech and Princeton. His work in cosmology (approximately 100 papers so far) focuses on theory, numerics, and analysis of quasilinear and nonlinear large-scale structure, and how we can learn from it about gravity, dark energy, and the physics of inflation.
Content
1. The Concordance Model of Cosmology2. The Expanding Universe3. The Fundamental Equations of Cosmology4. The Origin of Species5. The Inhomogeneous Universe: Matter & Radiation6. The Inhomogeneous Universe: Gravity7. Initial Conditions8. Growth of Structure: Linear Theory9. The Cosmic Microwave Background10. The Polarized CMB11. Probes of Structure: Tracers12. Growth of Structure: Beyond Linear Theory13. Probes of Structure: Lensing14. Analysis and Inference
