Galaxy Formation [E-Book] / by Malcolm S. Longair.
This third edition of Malcolm Longair's highly acclaimed textbook, Galaxy Formation, is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology expounding the structure of classical cosmological models from a contemporary viewpoint. This forms the background to a detailed study of the origin of structure...
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Personal Name(s): | Longair, Malcolm S., author |
Edition: |
3rd edition 2023. |
Imprint: |
Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer,
2023
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Physical Description: |
XXV, 772 pages 243 illustrations, 113 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9783662658918 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-662-65891-8 |
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
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- Part I Preliminaries
- A Very Brief History of Cosmology and Galaxy Formation
- The Large Scale Structure of the Universe
- Galaxies
- Clusters of Galaxies
- Part II The Basic Framework
- The Theoretical Framework
- An Introduction to Relativistic Gravity
- The Friedman World Models
- The Determination of Cosmological Parameters
- The Thermal History of the Universe
- Nucleosynthesis in the Early Universe
- Part III The Development of Primordial Fluctuations under Gravity
- The Evolution of Density Perturbations in the Standard Big Bang
- More Tools and Problems
- Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation
- Correlation Functions and the Spectrum of the Initial Fluctuations
- The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
- The Post-Recombination Era
- The Evolution of Galaxies and Active Galaxies with Cosmic Epoch
- The Intergalactic Medium
- Making Real Galaxies
- The Very Early Universe. .