Lecture Notes in Cosmology
Cosmology has become a very active research field in the last decades thanks to the impressing improvement of our observational techniques which have led to landmark discoveries such as the accelerated expansion of the universe, and have put physicists in front of new mysteries to unveil, such as th...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2018.
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| Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Σειρά: | UNITEXT for Physics,
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface
- Notation
- Cosmology
- The expanding universe and its content
- Cosmological observations
- Redshift
- Open problems in cosmology
- The universe in expansion
- Newtonian cosmology
- Relativistic cosmology
- Friedmann equations
- Solutions of the Friedmann equations
- Distances in cosmology
- Thermal history
- Thermal equilibrium and Boltzmann equation
- Short summary of thermal history
- The distribution function
- The entropy density
- Photons
- Neutrinos
- Boltzmann equation
- Boltzmann equation with a collisional term
- Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
- Recombination and decoupling
- Cosmological perturbations
- From the perturbations of the FLRW metric to the linearised Einstein tensor
- Perturbation of the energy-momentum tensor
- The problem of the gauge and gauge transformations
- Normal mode decomposition
- Einstein equations for scalar perturbations
- Einstein equations for tensor perturbations
- Einstein equations for vector perturbations
- Perturbed Boltzmann equations
- General form of the perturbed Boltzmann equation
- Force term
- The perturbed Boltzmann equation for CDM
- The perturbed Boltzmann equation for massless neutrinos
- The perturbed Boltzmann equation for photons
- Boltzmann equation for baryons
- Initial conditions
- Initial conditions
- Evolution equations in the kn^Inflation
- The flatness problem
- The horizon problem
- Single scalar field slow-roll inflation
- Production of gravitational waves during inflation
- Production of scalar perturbations during inflation
- Spectral indices
- Observational results
- Examples of models of inflation
- Evolution of perturbations
- Evolution on super-horizon scales
- The matter-dominated epoch
- The radiation-dominated epoch
- Deep inside the horizon
- Matching and CDM transfer function
- The transfer function for tensor perturbations
- Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Free-streaming
- Anisotropies on large scales
- Tight-coupling and acoustic oscillations
- Diffusion damping
- Line-of-sight integration
- Finite thickness effect and reionization
- Cosmological parameters determination
- Tensor contribution to the CMB TT correlation
- Polarisation
- Miscellanea
- Bayesian analysis using type Ia supernovae data
- Doing statistics in the sky
- Appendices
- Thermal distributions
- Derivation of the Poisson distribution
- Helmholtz theorem
- Conservation of R on large scales and for adiabatic perturbations
- Spherical harmonics
- Method of Green's functions
- Polarisation
- Thomson scattering
- Bibliography
- Subject Index.
