عنوان

Galaxy Formation

(Number (ISBN

9783662035719

(Number (ISBN

9783662035733

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b407807

Title Proper

Galaxy Formation

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

by Malcolm S. Longair.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin, Heidelberg :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Imprint: Springer,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1998.

Series Title

Astronomy and Astrophysics Library,

ISSN of Series

0941-7834

Text of Note

I Preliminaries -- 1.Introduction, History and Outline -- 2. The Large Scale Structure of the Universe -- 3. Galaxies -- 4. Clusters of Galaxies -- II The Basic Framework -- 5. The Theoretical Framework -- 6. An Introduction to Relativistic Gravity -- 7. The Friedman World Models -- 8. The Determination of Cosmological Parameters -- 9. The Thermal History of the Universe -- 10 Nucleosynthesis in the Early Universe -- III The Development of Primordial Fluctuations Under Gravity -- 11 The Evolution of Fluctuations in the Standard Big Bang -- 12 The Simplest Picture of Galaxy Formation and Why it Fails -- 13 Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation -- 14 Correlation Functions and the Spectrum of the Initial Fluctuations -- 15 Fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation -- IV The Post-Recombination Universe -- 16 The Post-recombination Universe: The Dark Ages -- 17 The Evolution of Galaxies and Active Galaxies with Cosmic Epoch -- 18 The Evolution of Star and Element Formation Rates with Cosmic Epoch -- 19 Diffuse Intergalactic Gas -- 20 Final Things -- References.

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For Deborah, Mark and Sarah 'Not another book on cosmology!', I hear the reader exclaim. 'Surely there are quite enough books on cosmology to satisfy everyone's needs?' I was asked by Springer-Verlag to expand into a full-length book the set of lecture notes that I prepared in 1988 for the First Astrophysics School organised by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network. The set of notes was entitled Galaxy Formation and was published as a chapter of the vol ume Evolution of Galaxies: Astronomical Observations (eds. 1. Appenzeller, H. J. Habing and P. Lena, pages 1 to 93, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, 1989). In that chapter, I attempted to bridge the gap between elementary cosmology and the technical papers appearing in the literature, which can seem quite daunting on first encounter. The objective was to present the physical concepts and key results as clearly as possible as an introduction and guide to the technical literature. The revision of these lecture notes into a full-length book was delayed by other projects. Specifically, I am completing a three-volume work for Cam bridge University Press, entitled High Energy Astrophysics, (Volume 1, 1992; Volume 2, 1994; Volume 3, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998). In addition, a further series of lecture notes on The Physics of Background Radiation was prepared for the 1993 23rd Advanced Course of the Swiss So ciety of Astrophysics and Astronomy, the topic of which was The Deep Uni verse (A. R. Sandage, R. G. Kron and M. S.

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9783662035733

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