Modern Cosmology

Scott Dodelson, Fabian Schmidt (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

530 Seiten

2025 | 3rd edition
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-443-28828-9 (ISBN)

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Modern Cosmology, Third Edition provides a detailed introduction to the field of cosmology. Beginning with the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric, this trusted resource includes careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. The reader is then introduced to perturbations about an FLRW universe: their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations, their primordial generation by inflation, and their observational consequences: the acoustic peaks in the CMB; the E/B decomposition in polarization; gravitational lensing of the CMB and large-scale structure; and the BAO standard ruler and redshift-space distortions in galaxy clustering. This revised third edition includes updates such as new sections on gravitational waves, line intensity mapping, and emergent analysis techniques; expanded sections of CMB secondaries; and revised figures and pedagogy. These revisions serve to enhance a comprehensive foundational text, as well as provide users with improvements that are aligned with recent advances in the field, as well as modern focuses in the classroom.

Scott Dodelson is Head of the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and was a research fellow at Harvard before moving to Fermilab, the University of Chicago, and Carnegie Mellon. He is the author of more than 200 papers on cosmology, most of which focus on the cosmic microwave background and the large-scale structure of the universe. Dodelson serves as the co-Chair of the Science Committee of the Dark Energy Survey. Fabian Schmidt is a research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA) in Garching, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago in 2009, and moved to MPA after fellowships at Caltech and Princeton. His work in cosmology (approximately 100 papers so far) focuses on theory, numerics, and analysis of quasilinear and nonlinear large-scale structure, and how we can learn from it about gravity, dark energy, and the physics of inflation.

1. The Concordance Model of Cosmology
2. The Expanding Universe
3. The Fundamental Equations of Cosmology
4. The Origin of Species
5. The Inhomogeneous Universe: Matter & Radiation
6. The Inhomogeneous Universe: Gravity
7. Initial Conditions
8. Growth of Structure: Linear Theory
9. The Cosmic Microwave Background
10. The Polarized CMB
11. Probes of Structure: Tracers
12. Growth of Structure: Beyond Linear Theory
13. Probes of Structure: Lensing
14. Analysis and Inference

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2025
Verlagsort	San Diego
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	0-443-28828-3 / 0443288283
ISBN-13	978-0-443-28828-9 / 9780443288289
Zustand	Neuware