A primer on the physics of the cosmic microwave background / / Massimo Giovannini
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| Autore: |
Giovannini Massimo
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| Titolo: |
A primer on the physics of the cosmic microwave background / / Massimo Giovannini
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| Pubblicazione: | Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 474 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina: | 523.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cosmic background radiation |
| Physics | |
| Note generali: | Formerly CIP. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-466) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This title addresses the general motivations and principles that inspire modern searches of a common lore in gravitation, cosmology and high energy physics. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Primer on the physics of the cosmic microwave background |
| ISBN: | 1-281-93393-7 |
| 9786611933937 | |
| 981-279-143-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822155603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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