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Galaxy Formation

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ISBN-10: 3540734775

ISBN-13: 9783540734772

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Malcolm S. Longair

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Accounting for the enormous and amazing development cosmology has made in the past ten years, this long awaited second edition of Malcolm Longair's highly appreciated textbook has been extensively and thoroughly updated. It tells the story of modern astrophysical cosmology from the perspective of one of its most important and fundamental problems ??? how did the galaxies come about? Longair uses this approach to introduce the whole of what may be called "classical cosmology." Moreover he describes how the study of the origin of galaxies and larger-scale structures in the Universe has provided us with unique and direct information about the physics of the very early Universe. The material is…    
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Book details

List price: $99.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Publication date: 12/12/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 737
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 3.058

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 with Cosmic Epoch
The Intergalactic Medium
Making Real Galaxies
The Very Early Universe
References
Name Index
Index
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