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UNINA9910140607403321 |
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Titolo |
Lectures on cosmology : accelerated expansion of the universe / / G. Wolschin (ed.) |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berlin ; ; [New York], : Springer Verlag, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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9786613559975 |
9781280382062 |
1280382066 |
9783642105982 |
364210598X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2010.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (X, 200 p. 30 illus.) |
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Collana |
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Lecture notes in physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 800 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Expanding universe |
Cosmology |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Inflation and Cosmological Perturbations -- Type Ia Supernovae and Cosmology -- Modified Gravity Models of Dark Energy -- Statistical Methods in Cosmology. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The lectures that four authors present in this volume investigate core topics related to the accelerated expansion of the Universe. The first lecture covers the inflationary period in the very early Universe. The second lecture revolves around the accelerated expansion of the late Universe at redshifts z < 1 due to the enigmatic dark energy that is commonly interpreted as a cosmological constant. The discovery of this accelerated expansion relied on data from type Ia supernovae, so this second lecture is dedicated to the astrophysics of type Ia supernovae and their role in cosmological observations. The third lecture, which seeks alternative explanations of dark energy, deals with modified gravity models. Such theories presently appear to be the most serious competitors to conventional dark-energy models based on a cosmological constant or its time-dependent counterparts arising from a scalar field And the fourth lecture discusses currently available statistical methods that are indispensable for the analysis of |
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