Generation of Cosmological Large-Scale Structure

✍ Scribed by Guido Chincarini, Paolo Saracco (auth.), David N. Schramm, P. Galeotti (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 331
• Series: NATO ASI Series 503
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volwne is the proceedings of the third school in particle astrophysics that Schramm and Galeotti have organized at Erice. The focus of thirs third school was the Generation of Cosmological Large-Scale Structure. It was held in November of 1996. The fIrst school in the series was on "Gauge Theory and the Early Universe" in May 1986, the second was on "Dark Matter in the Universe" in May 1988. All three schools have been successful under the auspices of the NATO Advanced Study Institute. This volume is thus the third in the series of the proceedings of these schools. The choice of the topic for this third school was natural, since the problem of generating a large-scale structure has become the most pressing problem in cosmology today. In particular, it is this generation of structure that is the interface between astronomical observations and particle models for the early universe. To date, all models for generating structures inevitably require new fundamental physics beyond the standard, SU x SU X U , model of high energy physics. The 3 2 I seeds for generating structures usually invoke unifIcation physics, and the matter needed to clump and form them seems to require particle properties that have not been seen in laboratories to date.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
High Redshift Galaxies....Pages 1-31
Dynamics of the Large-Scale Structure....Pages 33-62
The Large Scale Structure of the Universe....Pages 63-74
On Observing the Cosmic Microwave Background....Pages 75-104
Introduction to Correlation Properties of Galaxy Distribution....Pages 105-126
DARK MATTER: An Introduction....Pages 127-152
Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Inflation....Pages 153-192
Large-Scale Structure, Peculiar Velocities and the Density Field in the Local Universe....Pages 193-222
Higher Order Statistics from the EDSGC Catalog....Pages 223-231
On the Cosmological Mass Function....Pages 231-234
A Few Points Concerning Galaxy Luminosity Functions....Pages 235-238
Spectroscopy of Solar Neutrinos with Borexino....Pages 239-244
Measuring Ω 0 via the Bias Parameter....Pages 245-250
A Two-Dimensional Percolation Analysis of the Las Campanas Redshift Survey....Pages 251-254
Minkowski Functionals in Cosmology....Pages 255-260
A Wavelet Analysis of the Coma Cluster....Pages 261-266
Fluctuations in the IRAS 1.2 Jy Catalogue....Pages 267-272
Testing Cosmological Models Using Damped Lyman-Alpha Absorbers....Pages 273-278
Evolution of the Two-Point Correlation Function: Zel’dovich Approximation vs. Scaling Ansätze....Pages 279-282
The Substructure in Clusters of Galaxies....Pages 283-288
Entropy Production in the Early Universe....Pages 289-294
Pre—Big—Bang, Gravitons and Cosmology....Pages 295-302
The Implications of Luminosity Selection Effects in the Interpretation of the Angular Size-Redshift Data....Pages 303-306
Peaks above the Harrison-Zel’dovich Spectrum Due to the QCD Transition....Pages 307-310
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS)....Pages 311-316
Back Matter....Pages 317-317

✦ Subjects

Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory;Astronomy, Observations and Techniques;Astrophysics and Astroparticles;Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons