Galaxy Formation

Galaxy Formation by Malcolm S. Longair.

This second edition of Galaxy Formation is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology, expounding the structure of the classical cosmological models from a contemporary viewpoint. This forms the background to a detailed study of the origin of structure and galaxies in the Universe. The derivation...

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Main Author: Longair, Malcolm S. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:2nd ed. 2008.
Series:Astronomy and Astrophysics Library,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Space sciences.
Astrophysics.
Gravitation.
Observations, Astronomical.
Astronomy—Observations.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries
  • A Brief History of Cosmology and Galaxy Formation
  • The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
  • Galaxies
  • Clusters of Galaxies
  • The Basic Framework
  • The Theoretical Framework
  • An Introduction to Relativistic Gravity
  • The Friedman World Models
  • The Robertson–Walker Metric for an Empty Universe
  • The Determination of Cosmological Parameters
  • The Thermal History of the Universe
  • Nucleosynthesis in the Early Universe
  • The Development of Primordial Fluctuations Under Gravity
  • The Evolution of Perturbations in the Standard Big Bang
  • More Tools and Problems
  • Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation
  • Correlation Functions and the Spectrum of the Initial Fluctuations
  • Fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
  • The Post-Recombination Universe
  • The Post-Recombination Era
  • The Evolution of Galaxies and Active Galaxies with Cosmic Epoch
  • The Intergalactic Medium
  • Making Real Galaxies
  • The Very Early Universe.

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