Galaxy formation
This second edition of Galaxy Formation is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology, expounding the structure of the classical cosmological models from a contemporary viewpoint. This forms the background to a detailed study of the origin of structure and galaxies in the Universe. The derivation...
| Main Author: | Longair, Malcolm S., 1941- |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online Service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berlin :
Springer,
[2008]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxi, 735 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: |
Astronomy and astrophysics library.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Preliminaries. A brief history of cosmology and galaxy formation
- The large-scale structure of the universe
- Galaxies
- Clusters of galaxies
- The basic framework. The theoretical framework
- An introduction to relativistic gravity
- The Friedman world models
- The Robertson-Walker metric for an empty universe
- The determination of cosmological parameters
- The thermal history of the universe
- Nucleosynthesis in the early universe
- The development of primordial fluctuations under gravity. The evolution of perturbations in the standard big bang
- More tools and problems
- Dark matter and galaxy formation
- Correlation functions and the spectrum of the initial fluctuations
- Fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation
- The post-recombination universe. The post-recombination era
- The evolution of galaxies and active galaxies and active galaxies with cosmic epoch
- The intergalactic medium
- Making real galaxies
- The very early universe.