Galaxy Formation

• Main Author: Longair, Malcolm S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Edition: 2.
• Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library,
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astrophysics.; Space sciences.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

This second edition of Galaxy Formation is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology, expounding the structure of the classical cosmological models from a contemporary viewpoint. This forms the background to a detailed study of the origin of structure and galaxies in the Universe. The derivation...

Table of Contents:

• Preliminaries
• A Brief History of Cosmology and Galaxy Formation
• The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
• Galaxies
• Clusters of Galaxies
• The Basic Framework
• The Theoretical Framework
• An Introduction to Relativistic Gravity
• The Friedman World Models
• The Robertson–Walker Metric for an Empty Universe
• The Determination of Cosmological Parameters
• The Thermal History of the Universe
• Nucleosynthesis in the Early Universe
• The Development of Primordial Fluctuations Under Gravity
• The Evolution of Perturbations in the Standard Big Bang
• More Tools and Problems
• Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation
• Correlation Functions and the Spectrum of the Initial Fluctuations
• Fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
• The Post-Recombination Universe
• The Post-Recombination Era
• The Evolution of Galaxies and Active Galaxies with Cosmic Epoch
• The Intergalactic Medium
• Making Real Galaxies
• The Very Early Universe.