Fundamental Questions of Practical Cosmology Exploring the Realm of Galaxies /

• Main Authors: Baryshev, Yurij (Author), Teerikorpi, Pekka (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 383
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

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, ag...

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.