The Cosmic Microwave Background How It Changed Our Understanding of the Universe /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Evans, Rhodri (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Astronomers' Universe,
• Θέματα: Popular works.; Cosmology.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.

Rhodri Evans tells the story of what we know about the universe, from Jacobus Kapteyn’s Island universe at the turn of the 20th Century, and the discovery by Hubble that the nebulae were external to our own galaxy, through Gamow’s early work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and its subsequen...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• From Kapteyn to Hubble
• George Gamow, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman
• Penzias and Wilson and Dicke et al
• COBE
• DASI and BOOMERANG and other ground-based experiments
• WMAP
• Planck
• The Future.