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Dark energy : theory and observations /
"Dark energy, the mysterious cause of the accelerating expansion of the Universe, is one of the most important fields of research in astrophysics and cosmology today. Introducing the theoretical ideas, observational methods and results, this textbook is ideally suited to graduate courses on dar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Expansion history of the universe
- Correlation function and power spectrum
- Basics of cosmological perturbation theory
- Observational evidence of dark energy
- Cosmological constant
- Dark energy as a modified form of matter I: quintessence
- Dark energy as a modified form of matter II
- Dark energy as a modification of gravity
- Cosmic acceleration without dark energy
- Dark energy and linear cosmological perturbations
- Non-linear cosmological perturbations
- Statistical methods in cosmology
- Future observational constraints on the nature of dark energy.