经典英文物理教材系列：宇宙膨胀和大尺度结构

图书标准信息

• 作者 [英]安德鲁（Andrew R.L） 著
• 出版社 世界图书出版公司
• 出版时间 2009-01
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9787506292788
• 定价 86.00元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 16开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 400页
• 正文语种 简体中文，英语

【内容简介】

　　The1990shaveseensubstantialconsolidationoftheoreticalcosmology，coupledwithdramaticobservationaladvances，includingtheemergenceofanentirelynewfieldofobservationalastronomy-thestudyofirregularitiesinthecosmicmicrowavebackgroundradiation.Akeyideaofmoderncosmologyiscosmologicalinflation，whichisapossibletheoryfortheoriginofallstructuresintheUniverse，includingourselves!Thetimeisripeforanewbookdescribingthisfieldofresearch.

【目录】

Frequentlyusedsymbols
Preface
1INTRODUCTION
1.1Thisbook
1.2TheUniversewesee
1.3Overview:Fromcosmologicalinflationtolarge-scalestructure
1.4Notesonexamples
2THEHOTBIGBANGCOSMOLOGY
2.1TheexpandingUniverse
2.2Epochs
2.3Scales
2.4Thecosmicmicrowavebackground
2.5IngredientsforamodeloftheUniverse
2.6HistoryofourUniverse
Examples
3INFLATION
3.1Motivationforinflation
3.2Inflationintheabstract
3.3Scalarfieldsincosmology
3.4Slow-rollinflation
3.5Exactsolutions
3.6Hamilton-Jacobiformulationofinflation
3.7Inflationaryattractor
3.8Reheating:RecoveringtheHotBigBang
3.9Thermalinflation
Examples
4SIMPLESTMODELFORTHEORIGINOFSTRUCTUREI
4.1Introduction
4.2Sequenceofevents
4.3Gaussianperturbations
4.4Densityperturbation:Newtoniantreatment
4.5TheBaryondensitycontrast:Newtoniantreatment
4.6Cosmologicalperturbationtheory
4.7Evolutionequations
4.8Outsidethehorizon
4.9Peculiarvelocityintherelativisticdomain
Examples
5SIMPLESTMODELFORTHEORIGINOFSTRUCTUREII
5.1Fromhorizonentrytogalaxyformation
5.2Thecosmicmicrowavebackgroundanisotropy
5.3Polarization
5.4Reionization
Examples
6EXTENSIONSTOTHESIMPLESTMODEL
6.1Modifyingthecolddarkmatterhypothesis
6.2ACDMmodel
6.3OpenCDMmodel
6.4Finetuningissues
6.5Gravitationalwaves
6.6Isocurvatureperturbations
Examples
7SCALARFIELDSANDTHEVACUUMFLUCTUATION
7.1Classicalscalarfield
7.2Quantizedfreescalarfieldinfiatspace-time
7.3Severalscalarfields
7.4Vacuumfluctuationofinflatonfield
7.5Spectrumoftheprimordialcurvatureperturbation
7.6Beyondtheslow-rollapproximation
7.7Gravitationalwaves
7.8Generatinganisocurvatureperturbation
7.9Amulticomponentinflaton?
Examples
8BUILDINGANDTESTINGMODELSOFINFLATION
8.1Overview
8.2Formofthescalarfieldpotential
8.3Single-fieldmodels
8.4Hybridinflationmodels
8.5Thespectralindexasadiscriminator
8.6Modelsfromextendedtheoriesofgravity
8.7Openinflationmodels
Examples
9THECOSMICMICROWAVEBACKGROUND
9.1Largeanglesandthecosmicbackgroundexplorer(COBE)satellite
9.2Degree-scaleobservationsandacousticoscillations
9.3Aspectsofmicrowaveanisotropysatellites
Examples
10GALAXYMOTIONSANDCLUSTERING
10.1Clusteringofgalaxies
10.2Galaxyvelocities
Examples
11THEQUASI-LINEARREGIME
11.1Gravitationalcollapse
11.2Press-Schechtertheory
11.3Theoryofpeaks
11.4Numericalsimulations
11.5ApplicationsofPress-Schechtertheory
11.6ReionizationoftheUniverse
Examples
12PUTTINGOBSERVATIONSTOGETHER
12.1Observations
12.2Critical-densitymodels
12.3Low-densitymodels
12.4Otheroptions
12.5Summary
13OUTLOOKFORTHEFUTURE
14ADVANCEDTOPIC:COSMOLOGICALPERTURBATIONTHEORY
14.1Specialrelativity
14.2Fluidflowinspecialrelativity
14.3Specialrelativityusinggenericcoordinates
14.4Generalrelativity
14.5Cosmologicalperturbations
14.6Evolutionoftheperturbations
Examples
15ADVANCEDTOPIC:DIFFUSIONANDFREESTREAMING
15.1Matter
15.2Gasdynamicsinflatspace-time
15.3GasdynamicsintheperturbedUniverse
15.4MultipolesandtheBoltzmannhierarchy
15.5Polarization
15.6Initialconditionsandtheuansferfunctions
Examples
Appendix:Constantsandparameters
Numericalsolutionsandhintsforselectedexamples
References
Index