Oxford Companion To Cosmology

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Oxford University Press

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2009

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9780191727375

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College Freshman - College Senior

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The OXFORD COMPANION TO COSMOLOGY covers the ideas behind our current understanding of the universe, outlines some of the fundamental physics from which those ideas emerge, and discusses the many strands of observational evidence available to the modern cosmologist.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Preface.
Glossary.
Commonly Used Symbols.
Overview: The Hot Big Bang Cosmology.
1: Abell Clusters.
2: Acceleration of the Universe.
3: Acoustic Peaks.
4: Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN).
5: Adiabatic Perturbations.
6: Age of the Universe.
7: ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre Array).
8: Alternative Cosmologies.
9: Angular-Diameter Distance.
10: Anisotropies.
11: Anthropic Principle.
12: Anti-Matter.
13: Anti-Particles.
14: APM Galaxy Survey.
15: Arxiv.
16: Astro-Ph.
17: Axions.
18: Baryogenesis.
19: Baryon Oscillations.
20: Baryon-to-Photon Ratio.
21: Baryons.
22: Bayesian Inference.
23: Bianchi Classification.
24: Bias Parameter.
25: Biased Galaxy Formation.
26: Big Bang.
27: Big Crunch.
28: Big Rip.
29: Black-Body Spectrum.
30: Black Holes.
31: Boomerang Experiment.
32: Boson Stars.
33: Bosons.
34: Branes.
35: Braneworld.
36: Bulk Motions.
37: Causality.
38: Cepheid Variables.
39: CfA Redshift Survey.
40: Chandra Satellite.
41: Closed Universe.
42: Cluster Baryon Fraction.
43: Clustering.
44: Clusters of Galaxies.
45: Cmbfast.
46: Coincidence Problem.
47: Cold Dark Matter (CDM).
48: Cold Dark Matter Model (CDM Model).
49: Coma Cluster.
50: Comoving Coordinates.
51: Compactification.
52: Cone Plot.
53: Confidence Limits.
54: Correlation Function.
55: Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) (Pron. Koh-Bee).
56: Cosmic Dipole.
57: Cosmic Infrared Background (CIRB).
58: Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).
59: Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies (CMB Anisotropies).
60: Cosmic Rays.
61: Cosmic Strings.
62: Cosmic Structure.
63: Cosmic Variance.
64: Cosmic Web.
65: Cosmic X-Ray Background.
66: Cosmogony.
67: Cosmography.
68: Cosmological Constant.
69: Cosmological Inflation.
70: Cosmological Models.
71: Cosmological Parameters.
72: Cosmological Perturbation Theory.
73: Cosmological Principle.
74: Cosmological Tests.
75: Cosmology.
76: Counts in Cells.
77: Critical Density.
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