Adventures in Cosmology

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Author: David Goodstein ISBN: 9789814390606
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Publication: August 25, 2011
Imprint: WSPC Language: English
Author: David Goodstein
ISBN: 9789814390606
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication: August 25, 2011
Imprint: WSPC
Language: English

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 early universe, expansion of the universe, dark matter and dark energy. This up-to-date collection of review articles offers a general introduction to cosmology and is intended for all probing into the profound questions on where we came from and where we are going.

Contents:

  • Galaxy Formation: From Start to Finish (Andrew Benson, California Institute of Technology)
  • The Reionization of Cosmic Hydrogen by the First Galaxies (Abraham Loeb, Harvard University)
  • Clusters of Galaxies (Elena Pierpaoli, University of Southern California)
  • Reionizing the Universe with the First Sources of Light (Volker Bromm, University of Texas at Austin)
  • Mapping the Cosmic Dawn (Steven Furlanetto, University of California, Los Angeles)
  • Neutrino Masses from Cosmology (Ofer Lahav and Shaun Thomas, University College London)
  • Measuring the Expansion Rate of the Universe (Laura Ferrarese, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)
  • Particles as Dark Matter (Dan Hooper, The University of Chicago)
  • Detection of WIMP Dark Matter (Sunil Golwala, California Institute of Technology & Dan McKinsey, Yale University)
  • The Accelerating Universe (Dragan Huterer, University of Michigan)
  • Frontiers of Dark Energy (Eric V Linder, University of California, Berkeley and Ewha Womans University)
  • The First Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe (Xiaohui Fan, University of Arizona)

Readership: Students, researchers and academics interested in cosmology.

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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 early universe, expansion of the universe, dark matter and dark energy. This up-to-date collection of review articles offers a general introduction to cosmology and is intended for all probing into the profound questions on where we came from and where we are going.

Contents:

Readership: Students, researchers and academics interested in cosmology.

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