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The Cosmic Microwave Background How It Changed Our Understanding of the Universe /

Rhodri Evans tells the story of what we know about the universe, from Jacobus Kapteyn's Island universe at the turn of the 20th Century, and the discovery by Hubble that the nebulae were external to our own galaxy, through Gamow's early work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and its...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Evans, Rhodri (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Colección:Astronomers' Universe,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From Kapteyn to Hubble
  • George Gamow, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman
  • Penzias and Wilson and Dicke et al
  • COBE
  • DASI and BOOMERANG and other ground-based experiments
  • WMAP
  • Planck
  • The Future.