Modern Cosmology begins with an introduction to the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric, including careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. From this starting point, the reader is introduced to perturbations about an FRW universe: their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations,...
Modern Cosmology begins with an introduction to the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric, including careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. From this starting point, the reader is introduced to perturbations about an FRW universe: their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations, their generation by primordial inflation, and their observational consequences. These consequences include the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) featuring acoustic peaks and polarization, the matter power spectrum with baryonic wiggles, and their detection via photometric galaxy surveys, redshift distortions, cluster abundances, and weak lensing. The book concludes with a long chapter on data analysis.
Modern Cosmology is the first book to explain in detail the structure of the acoustic peaks in the CMB, the E/B decomposition in polarization which may allow for detection of primordial gravity waves, and the modern analysis techniques used on increasingly large cosmological data sets. Readers will gain the tools needed to work in cosmology and learn how modern observations are rapidly revolutionizing our picture of the universe.
* Provides foundations, calculations, and interpretations which illuminate current thinking in cosmology
* Covers the major advances in cosmology over the past decade
* Includes over 100 unique, pedagogical figures
作者简介
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作者：(英国)都德尔逊 (Scott Dodelson)
Scott Dodelson：美国费米国家实验室理论天体物理研究组负责人和芝加哥大学天文和天体物理学系教授。在哥伦比亚大学获博士学位。进入费米国家实验室和芝加哥大学前在哈佛大学做研究员。在宇宙论方面发表了七十多篇论文，其中大部分是关于宇宙的微波背景和大尺度结构。
So we will drop any pretensions of connecting the generic scalar field which drives inflation to known
physics. Making this connection is left as a homework problem for a future Nobel laureate. (查看原文)
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2 有用 忘川 2014-05-16 10:29:49
这本书非常好，比起中文书来说，有很多详细的计算过程，是真的在教你算，而中文书感觉就像是看热闹。能够知道理论是怎么一步一步得出来的，而且很简单。真的能够体会到科学探索的过程，当然比起中文书，要厚很多。
0 有用 LLLtr 2022-09-23 17:12:52 荷兰
每小章的逻辑都非常好 整体编排也很合理 拯救了我的宇宙学课
0 有用 Kirk在氪星 2017-02-14 10:12:07
第一遍学的时候帮助很大
0 有用 Newbie 2014-07-26 23:58:15
靠它吃饭啦
0 有用 番茄酱 2020-10-19 03:56:24
物理图像很清晰，有幸上过作者的课。