Beyond ΛCDM Exploring Alternatives to the Standard Cosmological Paradigm /

• Main Author: Bose, Sownak (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Cosmology.; Astrophysics.; Mathematical physics.; Physics.; Gravitation.; Theoretical Astrophysics.; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

This book employs computer simulations of 'artificial' Universes to investigate the properties of two popular alternatives to the standard candidates for dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE). It confronts the predictions of theoretical models with observations using a sophisticated semi-a...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Statistical Properties of Warm Dark Matter Haloes
• Substructure and Galaxy Formation in Warm Dark Matter Simulations
• Reionisation in Sterile Neutrino Cosmologies
• Testing the Quasi-Static Approximation in F (R) Gravity Simulations
• Speeding up N-Body Simulations of Modified Gravity: Chameleon Screening Models
• Conclusions and Future Work.