<P>Delineating the huge strides taken in cosmology in the past ten years, this much-anticipated 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 im
Galaxy Formation
โ Scribed by Prof. Malcolm S. Longair (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 544
- Series
- Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction, History and Outline....Pages 3-19
The Large Scale Structure of the Universe....Pages 20-40
Galaxies....Pages 41-70
Clusters of Galaxies....Pages 71-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
The Theoretical Framework....Pages 109-132
An Introduction to Relativistic Gravity....Pages 133-151
The Friedman World Models....Pages 152-185
The Determination of Cosmological Parameters....Pages 186-216
The Thermal History of the Universe....Pages 217-232
Nucleosynthesis in the Early Universe....Pages 233-249
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
The Evolution of Fluctuations in the Standard Big Bang....Pages 253-273
The Simplest Picture of Galaxy Formation and Why It Fails....Pages 274-292
Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation....Pages 293-307
Correlation Functions and the Spectrum of the Initial Fluctuations....Pages 308-330
Fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation....Pages 331-360
Front Matter....Pages 361-361
The Post-Recombination Universe โ the Dark Ages....Pages 363-378
The Evolution of Galaxies and Active Galaxies with Cosmic Epoch....Pages 379-417
The Evolution of Star and Element Formation Rates with Cosmic Epoch....Pages 418-447
Diffuse Intergalactic Gas....Pages 448-465
Final Things....Pages 466-492
Back Matter....Pages 493-536
โฆ Subjects
Astronomy, Observations and Techniques; Astrophysics and Astroparticles
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
<p><span>Delineating the huge strides taken in cosmology in the past ten years, this much-anticipated 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 m
Delineating the huge strides taken in cosmology in the past ten years, this much-anticipated 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 impor