现代宇宙学

图书标准信息

• 作者 [英]都德尔逊 著
• 出版社 世界图书出版公司
• 出版时间 2008-10
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9787506291996
• 定价 55.00元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 24开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 440页
• 正文语种 英语
• 丛书 经典名著系列

【内容简介】

　　Therearetwoaspectsofcosmologytodaythatmakeitmorealluringthanever.First,thereisanenormousamountofdata.Togivejustoneexampleofhowrapidlyourknowledgeofthestructureoftheuniverseisadvancing,considergalaxysurveyswhichmapthesky.In1985,thestate-of-the-artsurveywastheonecarriedoutbytheCenterforAstrophysics;itconsistedofthepositionsof1100galaxies.Today,theSloanDigitalSkySurveyandtheTwoDegreeFieldbetweenthemhaverecordedthe3Dpositionsofhalfamilliongalaxies.

【作者简介】

　　ScottDodelson：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。
　　目次：标准模型及其它；平坦扩张的宇宙；远离平衡态；波尔兹曼方程；爱因斯坦方程；初始条件；多样性；各项异性；多样性的探测；弱透镜化和偏振；分析；附录A：部分习题解答；附录B：常数；附录C：特殊函数；附录D：符号；参考文献；索引。
　　读者对象：理论物理、天文物理和宇宙学等专业的高年级本科生、研究生和相关专业的科研人员。

【目录】

1TheStandardModelandBeyond
1.1TheExpandingUniverse
1.2TheHubbleDiagram
1.3BigBangNucleosynthesis
1.4TheCosmicMicrowaveBackground
1.5BeyondtheStandardModel
1.6Summary
Exercises
2TheSmooth,ExpandingUniverse
2.1GeneralRelativity
2.1.1TheMetric
2.1.2TheGeodesicEquation
2.1.3EinsteinEquations
2.2Distances
2.3EvolutionofEnergy
2.4CosmicInventory
2.4.1Photons
2.4.2Baryons
2.4.3Matter
2.4.4Neutrinos
2.4.5DarkEnergy
2.4.6EpochofMatter-RadiationEquality
2.5Summary
Exercises
3BeyondEquilibrium
3.1BoltzmannEquationforAnnihilation
3.2BigBangNucleosynthesis
3.2.1NeutronAbundance
3.2.2LightElementAbundances
3.3Recombination
3.4DarkMatter
3.5Summary
Exercises
4TheBoltzmannEquations
4.1TheBoltzmannEquationfortheHarmonicOscillator
4.2TheCollisionlessBoltzmannEquationforPhotons
4.2.1Zero-OrderEquation
4.2.2First-OrderEquation
4.3CollisionTerms:ComptonScattering
4.4TheBoltzmannEqUationforPhotons
4.5TheBoltzmannEquationforColdDarkMatter
4.6TheBoltzmannEquationforBaryons
4.7Summary
Exercises
5　EinsteinEquations
5.1ThePerturbedRicciTensorandScalar
5.1.1ChristoffelSymbols
5.1.2RicciTensor
5.2TwoComponentsoftheEinsteinEquations
5.3TensorPerturbations
5.3.1ChristoffelSymbolsforTensorPerturbations
5.3.2RicciTensorforTensorPerturbations
5.3.3EinsteinEquationsforTensorPerturbations
5.4TheDecompositionTheorem
5.5FromGaugetoGauge
5.6Summary
　Exercises
6InitialConditions
6.1TheEinstein-BoltzmannEquationsatEarlyTimes
6.2TheHorizon
6.3Inflation
6.3.1ASolutiontotheHorizonProblem
6.3.2NegativePressure
6.3.3ImplementationwithaScalarField
6.4GravityWaveProduction
6.4.1QuantizingtheHarmonicOscillator
6.4.2TensorPerturbations
6.5ScalarPerturbations
6.5.1ScalarFieldPerturbationsaroundaSmoothBackground
6.5.2Super-HorizonPerturbations
6.5.3SpatiallyFlatSlicing
6.6SummaryandSpectralIndices
Exercises
7Inhomogeneities
7.1Prelude
7.1.1ThreeStagesofEvolution
7.1.2Method
7.2LargeScales
7.2.1Super-horizonSolution
7.2.2ThroughHorizonCrossing
7.3SmallScales
7.3.1HorizonCrossing
7.3.2Sub-horizonEvolution
7.4NumericalResultsandFits
7.5GrowthFunction
7.6BeyondColdDarkMatter
7.6.1Baryons
7.6.2MassiveNeutrinos
7.6.3DarkEnergy
Exercises
8Anisotropies
8.1Overview
8.2Large-ScaleAnisotropies
8.3AcousticOscillations
8.3.1TightlyCoupledLimitoftheBoltzmannEquations
8.3.2TightlyCoupledSolutions
8.4DiffusionDamping
8.5InhomogeneitiestoAnisotropies
8.5.1FreeStreaming
8.5.2TheCls
8.6TheAnisotropySpectrumToday
8.6.1Sachs-WolfeEffect
8.6.2SmallScales
8.7CosmologicalParameters
8.7.1Curvature
8.7.2DegenerateParameters
8.7.3DistinctImprints
Exercises
9ProbesofInhomogeneities
9.1AngularCorrelations
9.2PeculiarVelocities
9.3DirectMeasurementsofPeculiarVelocities
9.4RedshiftSpaceDistortions
9.5GalaxyClusters
Exercises
10WeakLensingandPolarization
10.1GravitationalDistortionofImages
10.2GeodesiCsandShear
10.3EllipticityasanEstimatorofShear
10.4WeakLensingPowerSpectrum
10.5Polarization:TheQuadrupoleandtheQ/UDecompositioI
10.6PolarizationfromaSinglePlaneWave
10.7BoltzmannSolution
10.8PolarizationPowerSpectra
10.9DetectingGravityWaves
Exercises
11Analysis
11.1TheLikelihoodFunction
11.1.1SimpleExample
11.1.2CMBLikelihood
11.1.3GalaxySurveys
11.2SignalCovarianceMatrix
11.2.1CMBWindowFunctions
11.2.2ExamplesofCMBWindowFunctions
11.2.3WindowFunctionsforGalaxySurveys
11.2.4Summary
11.3EstimatingtheLikelihoodFunction
11.3.1Karhunen-LoeveTechniques
11.3.2OptimalQuadraticEstimator
11.4TheFisherMatrix:LimitsandApplications
11.4.1CMB
11.4.2GalaxySurveys
11.4.3Forecasting
11.5MapmakingandInversion
11.6Systematics
11.6.1Foregrounds
11.6.2ModeSubtraction
Exercises
ASolutionstoSelectedProblems
BNumbers
B.1PhysicalConstants
B.2CosmologicalConstants
CSpecialFunctions
C.1LegendrePolynomials
C.2SphericalHarmonics
C.3SphericalBesselFunctions
C.4FourierTransforms
C.5Miscellaneous
DSymbols
Bibliography
Index