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  title info:
    title: Fundamental Questions of Practical Cosmology
    sub title: Exploring the Realm of Galaxies
  name:
    name part: Baryshev, Yurij.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Teerikorpi, Pekka.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 332 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book guides readers (astronomers, physicists, and university students) through central questions of Practical Cosmology, a term used by the late Allan Sandage to denote the modern scientific endeavor to find the cosmological model best describing the universe of galaxies, its geometry, size, age, and matter composition. The authors draw on their personal experience in astrophysics and cosmology to explain key concepts of cosmology, both observational and theoretical, and to highlight several items which give cosmology its special character. These highlighted items are: - Idiosyncratic features of the “cosmic laboratory” - Malmquist bias in the determination of cosmic distances - Theory of gravitation as a cornerstone of cosmological models - Crucial tests for checking the reality of space expansion - Methods of analyzing the structures of the universe as mapped by galaxies - Usefulness of fractals as a model to describe the large-scale structure - New cosmological physics inherent in the Friedmann world model.
  table of contents: Chapter 1 The golden age of cosmological physics -- Chapter 2 Distance measurement and cosmography -- Chapter 3 Cosmic distances and selection biases -- Chapter 4 Cosmological redshift and the distance scale -- Chapter 5 Gravitational physics for cosmic scales -- Chapter 6 Predictions of gravity theories -- Chapter 7 The Friedmann model -- Chapter 8 Classical observational tests of world models -- Chapter 9 Constructing universes: a gallery of ideas -- Chapter 10 Large-scale structure: methods of analysis -- Chapter 11 The inhomogeneous galaxy universe: observational results -- Chapter 12 Some outstanding problems of cosmological physics -- Appendices -- Bibliography.
  note: by Yurij Baryshev, Pekka Teerikorpi.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: QB980-991
  classification: 520
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 383
  identifier: 9789400723795
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2379-5
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