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Autore |
Giovannini Massimo |
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A primer on the physics of the cosmic microwave background [[electronic resource] /] / Massimo Giovannini |
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Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-93393-7 |
9786611933937 |
981-279-143-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 474 p. ) : ill |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cosmic background radiation |
Physics |
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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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-466) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Why CMB Physics; Electromagnetic Emission of the Observable Universe; From CMB to the Standard Cosmological Model; Problems with the Standard Cosmological Model (SCM); Beyond the SCM; Essentials of Inflationary Dynamics; Inhomogeneities in FRW Models; The First Lap in CMB Anisotropies; Improved Fluid Description of Pre-Decoupling Physics; Kinetic Hierarchies of Multipole Moments; Early Initial Conditions; Surfing on the Gauges; Interacting Fluids; Spectator Fields; Appendices: The Concept of Distance in Cosmology; Kinetic Description of Hot Plasmas; Scalar Modes of the Geometry; Metric Fluctuations: Gauge Independent Treatment. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This title addresses the general motivations and principles that inspire modern searches of a common lore in gravitation, cosmology and high energy physics. |
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