Modern Cosmology

Modern Cosmology begins with an introduction to the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric, including careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. From this starting point, the reader is introduced to perturbations about an FRW universe: their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations,...

Modern Cosmology begins with an introduction to the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric, including careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. From this starting point, the reader is introduced to perturbations about an FRW universe: their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations, their generation by primordial inflation, and their observational consequences. These consequences include the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) featuring acoustic peaks and polarization, the matter power spectrum with baryonic wiggles, and their detection via photometric galaxy surveys, redshift distortions, cluster abundances, and weak lensing. The book concludes with a long chapter on data analysis.

Modern Cosmology is the first book to explain in detail the structure of the acoustic peaks in the CMB, the E/B decomposition in polarization which may allow for detection of primordial gravity waves, and the modern analysis techniques used on increasingly large cosmological data sets. Readers will gain the tools needed to work in cosmology and learn how modern observations are rapidly revolutionizing our picture of the universe.

* Provides foundations, calculations, and interpretations which illuminate current thinking in cosmology

* Covers the major advances in cosmology over the past decade

* Includes over 100 unique, pedagogical figures

作者：(英国)都德尔逊 (Scott Dodelson)

Scott Dodelson：美国费米国家实验室理论天体物理研究组负责人和芝加哥大学天文和天体物理学系教授。在哥伦比亚大学获博士学位。进入费米国家实验室和芝加哥大学前在哈佛大学做研究员。在宇宙论方面发表了七十多篇论文，其中大部分是关于宇宙的微波背景和大尺度结构。