Modern Cosmology, Third 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. This revised third edition includes updates such as new sections on gravitational waves, line intensity mapping, and emergent analysis techniques; expanded sections of CMB secondaries; and revised figures and pedagogy. These revisions serve to enhance a comprehensive foundational text, as well as provide users with improvements that are aligned with recent advances in the field, as well as modern focuses in the classroom.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780443288289
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-443-28828-9
- Verlag: Elsevier LTD
- Erscheinungstermin: 27.03.2025
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 3. Auflage 2025
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 784 g
- Format (B x H x T): 188 x 231 x 24 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, EPUB
- Vorauflage: 978-0-12-815948-4
