Principles of Physical Cosmology
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Published on 12. October 2020
774 pages
978-0-691-20672-1 (ISBN)
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P. J. E. Peebles is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose books include Cosmology's Century, Quantum Mechanics, and Physical Cosmology (all Princeton). He is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Princeton University.
Content
- 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
