The Early UniverseThe Early Universe has become the standard reference on forefront topics in cosmology, particularly to the early history of the Universe. Subjects covered include primordial nubleosynthesis, baryogenesis, phases transitions, inflation, dark matter, and galaxy formation, relics such as axions, neutrinos and monopoles, and speculations about the Universe at the Planck time. The book includes more than ninety figures as well as a five-page update discussing recent developments such as the COBE results. |
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... anisotropy: Variation in the CMBR temperature in different directions is expected due to several effects: the motion of our local reference frame with respect to the cosmic rest frame (i.e., the FRW frame), rotation of the Universe ...
... anisotropy: Variation in the CMBR temperature in different directions is expected due to several effects: the motion of our local reference frame with respect to the cosmic rest frame (i.e., the FRW frame), rotation of the Universe ...
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... anisotropy not associated with any known foreground source [8]. In the near future the anisotropy of the CMBR may well be measured on angular scales from 10' to 90°, thereby probing the density field of the Universe on scales from about ...
... anisotropy not associated with any known foreground source [8]. In the near future the anisotropy of the CMBR may well be measured on angular scales from 10' to 90°, thereby probing the density field of the Universe on scales from about ...
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... anisotropy measurements are crucial to testing these scenarios: to accommodate the DMR result a high level of biasing is required (b ~ 4) and their predictions for anisotropy on the 1° scale are very different than those of cold dark ...
... anisotropy measurements are crucial to testing these scenarios: to accommodate the DMR result a high level of biasing is required (b ~ 4) and their predictions for anisotropy on the 1° scale are very different than those of cold dark ...
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... anisotropy on the 1° scale, and a number of experiments are now reporting results on these scales [8]. It is very likely that in the next few years one or more models of structure formation will be falsified. With the great effort ...
... anisotropy on the 1° scale, and a number of experiments are now reporting results on these scales [8]. It is very likely that in the next few years one or more models of structure formation will be falsified. With the great effort ...
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... anisotropy the spectrum of density perturbations is now being probed on all scales. Larger red-shift surveys and additional CMBR anisotropy measurements should further clarify matters and provide overlapping information that will shed ...
... anisotropy the spectrum of density perturbations is now being probed on all scales. Larger red-shift surveys and additional CMBR anisotropy measurements should further clarify matters and provide overlapping information that will shed ...
Contents
Lecture Notes Vol II in preparation | |
ROBERTSONWALKER METRIC | |
BIGBANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS | |
THERMODYNAMICS IN THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE | |
P W Anderson Basic Notions of Condensed Matter Physics 1983 | |
BARYOGENESIS | |
INFLATION | |
STRUCTURE FORMATION | |
AXIONS | |
35 J Schwinger Quantum Kinematics and Dynamics 1970 | |
TOWARD THE PLANCK EPOCH | |
FINALE | |
APPENDIX | |
R N Cahn SemiSimple Lie Algebras and Their Representations 1984 | |
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