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Adventures in cosmology /

This volume tells of the quest for cosmology as seen by some of the finest cosmologists in the world. It starts with "Galaxy Formation from Start to Finish" and ends with "The First Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe," exploring in between the grand themes of galaxies, the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: World Scientific (Firm)
Otros Autores: Goodstein, David L., 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Galaxy formation : from start to finish / Andrew Benson
  • 3. The reionization of cosmic hydrogen by the first galaxies / Abraham Loeb
  • 4. Clusters of galaxies / Elena Pierpaoli
  • 5. Reionizing the universe with the first sources of light / Volker Bromm
  • 6. Mapping the cosmic dawn / Steven Furlanetto
  • 7. Neutrino masses from cosmology / Ofer Lahav and Shaun Thomas
  • 8. Measuring the expansion rate of the universe / Laura Ferrarese
  • 9. Particles as dark matter / Dan Hooper
  • 10. Detection of wimp dark matter / Sunil Golwala and Dan McKinsey
  • 11. The accelerating universe / Dragan Huterer
  • 12. Frontiers of dark energy / Eric V. Linder
  • 13. The first supermassive black holes in the universe / Xiaohui Fan.