How did the first stars and galaxies form? /
Abraham Loeb starts from first principles, tracing the theoretical foundations of cosmology and carefully explaining the physics behind them. Topics include the gravitational growth of perturbations in an expanding universe, the abundance and properties of dark matter halos and galaxies, reionizatio...
| Основен автор: | Loeb, Abraham. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock :
Princeton University Press,
2010.
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| Серия: |
Princeton frontiers in physics.
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| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
How did the first stars and galaxies form? |
| Резюме: |
Abraham Loeb starts from first principles, tracing the theoretical foundations of cosmology and carefully explaining the physics behind them. Topics include the gravitational growth of perturbations in an expanding universe, the abundance and properties of dark matter halos and galaxies, reionization, the observational methods used to detect the earliest galaxies and probe the diffuse gas between them--and much more.-- |
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| Физически характеристики: |
xiii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691145150 (alk. paper) 0691145156 (alk. paper) 0691145164 (pbk.) 9780691145167 (pbk.) |