The first galaxies in the universe [[electronic resource] /] / Abraham Loeb and Steven R. Furlanetto |
Autore | Loeb Abraham |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (571 p.) |
Disciplina | 523.1/12 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FurlanettoSteven R |
Collana | Princeton series in astrophysics |
Soggetto topico |
Cosmology
Galaxies - Formation Stars - Formation |
Soggetto non controllato |
21-cm cosmology
21-cm line AGN Big Bang Hubble Space Telescope IGM properties IGM James Webb Space Telescope Lyman-α emissions Lyman-α line Lyman-α photons Milky Way Universe active galactic nuclei analytic models astrophysical objects astrophysical processes astrophysics black holes chemical processes cluster formation computational methods cosmic dawn cosmic evolution cosmic history cosmic microwave background cosmological perturbations cosmological phase transition cosmology dark ages dark matter density evolution disk formation dwarf galaxies earliest gaseous clouds early galaxies early stars feedback effects feedback processes first dwarf galaxies first galaxies first stars fossil records fossil structure fundamental cosmology galactic emission lines galactic superwinds galaxies galaxy evolution galaxy formation gravitational collapse gravitational growth halo formation halo mergers helium high-redshift galaxies high-z Universe hydrogen reionization hydrogen hyperfine line intergalactic hydrogen intergalactic medium ionization structures linear growth luminosity luminous material massive stars mechanical feedback nonlinear evolution nonlinear structure numerical simulations observational probes perturbations photoheating positive feedback primordial gas protostars quasars radiative feedback radiative processes reionization secondary anisotropies semianalytic models small density fluctuations spin-flip background spin-flip fluctuations spin-flip transition standard cosmological model star formation star-forming galaxies statistical fluctuations stellar feedback stellar ionizing photons stellar mass functions stellar-mass black holes structure supermassive black holes |
ISBN |
1-299-05142-1
1-4008-4560-2 |
Classificazione | SCI005000SCI015000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I. Fundamentals of Structure Formation -- Chapter One. Introduction and Cosmological Background -- Chapter Two. Linear Growth of Cosmological Perturbations -- Chapter Three. Nonlinear Structure and Halo Formation -- Chapter Four. The Intergalactic Medium -- PART II. The First Structures -- Chapter Five. The First Stars -- Chapter Six. Stellar Feedback and Galaxy Formation -- Chapter Seven. Supermassive Black Holes -- Chapter Eight. Physics of Galaxy Evolution -- Chapter Nine. The Reionization of Intergalactic Hydrogen -- PART III. Observations of the Cosmic Dawn -- Chapter Ten. Surveys of High-Redshift Galaxies -- Chapter Eleven. The Lyman-α Line as a Probe of the Early Universe -- Chapter Twelve. The 21-cm Line -- Chapter Thirteen. Other Probes of the First Galaxies -- Appendix A. Useful Numbers -- Appendix B. Cosmological Parameters -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index |
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Loeb Abraham | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The first galaxies in the universe / / Abraham Loeb and Steven R. Furlanetto |
Autore | Loeb Abraham |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (571 p.) |
Disciplina | 523.1/12 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FurlanettoSteven R |
Collana | Princeton series in astrophysics |
Soggetto topico |
Cosmology
Galaxies - Formation Stars - Formation |
Soggetto non controllato |
21-cm cosmology
21-cm line AGN Big Bang Hubble Space Telescope IGM properties IGM James Webb Space Telescope Lyman-α emissions Lyman-α line Lyman-α photons Milky Way Universe active galactic nuclei analytic models astrophysical objects astrophysical processes astrophysics black holes chemical processes cluster formation computational methods cosmic dawn cosmic evolution cosmic history cosmic microwave background cosmological perturbations cosmological phase transition cosmology dark ages dark matter density evolution disk formation dwarf galaxies earliest gaseous clouds early galaxies early stars feedback effects feedback processes first dwarf galaxies first galaxies first stars fossil records fossil structure fundamental cosmology galactic emission lines galactic superwinds galaxies galaxy evolution galaxy formation gravitational collapse gravitational growth halo formation halo mergers helium high-redshift galaxies high-z Universe hydrogen reionization hydrogen hyperfine line intergalactic hydrogen intergalactic medium ionization structures linear growth luminosity luminous material massive stars mechanical feedback nonlinear evolution nonlinear structure numerical simulations observational probes perturbations photoheating positive feedback primordial gas protostars quasars radiative feedback radiative processes reionization secondary anisotropies semianalytic models small density fluctuations spin-flip background spin-flip fluctuations spin-flip transition standard cosmological model star formation star-forming galaxies statistical fluctuations stellar feedback stellar ionizing photons stellar mass functions stellar-mass black holes structure supermassive black holes |
ISBN |
1-299-05142-1
1-4008-4560-2 |
Classificazione | SCI005000SCI015000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I. Fundamentals of Structure Formation -- Chapter One. Introduction and Cosmological Background -- Chapter Two. Linear Growth of Cosmological Perturbations -- Chapter Three. Nonlinear Structure and Halo Formation -- Chapter Four. The Intergalactic Medium -- PART II. The First Structures -- Chapter Five. The First Stars -- Chapter Six. Stellar Feedback and Galaxy Formation -- Chapter Seven. Supermassive Black Holes -- Chapter Eight. Physics of Galaxy Evolution -- Chapter Nine. The Reionization of Intergalactic Hydrogen -- PART III. Observations of the Cosmic Dawn -- Chapter Ten. Surveys of High-Redshift Galaxies -- Chapter Eleven. The Lyman-α Line as a Probe of the Early Universe -- Chapter Twelve. The 21-cm Line -- Chapter Thirteen. Other Probes of the First Galaxies -- Appendix A. Useful Numbers -- Appendix B. Cosmological Parameters -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824610703321 |
Loeb Abraham | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Introduction to black hole physics [[electronic resource] /] / Valeri P. Frolov & Andrei Zelnikov |
Autore | Frolov V. P (Valerii Pavlovich) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (505 p.) |
Disciplina | 523.8/875 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ZelnikovAndrei |
Soggetto topico |
Black holes (Astronomy)
Gravitational collapse Stars - Evolution |
ISBN | 0-19-100322-0 |
Classificazione | SCI005000SCI015000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; 1 Black Holes: Big Picture; 1.1 Gravity and Black Holes; 1.2 Brief History of Black Holes; 1.3 'Dark Stars' vs. Black Holes; 1.4 Final State of Stellar Evolution; 1.5 Equilibrium of Gravitating Systems; 1.6 Important Notions of Astrophysics; 1.7 Black Holes in Astrophysics and Cosmology; 1.8 Stellar-Mass Black Holes; 1.9 Supermassive Black Holes; 1.10 Primordial Black Holes; 1.11 Black Holes in Theoretical Physics; 1.12 Black Holes and Extra Dimensions; 2 Physics in a Uniformly Accelerated Frame; 2.1 Minkowski Spacetime and Its Symmetries
2.2 Minkowski Spacetime in Curved Coordinates2.3 Uniformly Accelerated Reference Frame; 2.4 Homogeneous Gravitational Field; 2.5 Causal Structure; 2.6 Wick's Rotation in the Rindler Space; 3 Riemannian Geometry; 3.1 Differential Manifold. Tensors; 3.2 Metric; 3.3 Covariant Derivative; 3.4 Lie and Fermi Transport; 3.5 Curvature Tensor; 3.6 Parallel Transport of a Vector; 3.7 Spacetime Symmetries; 3.8 Submanifold; 3.9 Integration; 4 Particle Motion in Curved Spacetime; 4.1 Equations of Motion; 4.2 Phase Space; 4.3 Complete Integrability; 5 Einstein Equations; 5.1 Einstein-Hilbert Action 5.2 Einstein Equations5.3 Linearized Gravity; 5.4 Gravitational radiation; 5.5 Gravity in Higher-Dimensions; 6 Spherically Symmetric Black Holes; 6.1 Spherically Symmetric Gravitational Field; 6.2 Schwarzschild-de Sitter Metric; 6.3 Global Structure of the Schwarzschild Spacetime; 6.4 Black Hole Interior; 6.5 Painlevè-Gullstrand Metric; 6.6 Eddington-Finkelstein Coordinates; 6.7 Charged Black Holes; 6.8 Higher-Dimensional Spherical Black Holes; 7 Particles and Light Motion in Schwarzschild Spacetime; 7.1 Equations of Motion; 7.2 Particle Trajectories; 7.3 Kepler's Law; 7.4 Light Propagation 7.5 Ray-Tracing in Schwarzschild Spacetime7.6 Black Hole as a Gravitational Lens; 7.7 Radiation from an Object Moving Around the Black Hole; 7.8 Equations of Motion in 'Tilted' Spherical Coordinates; 7.9 Magnetized Schwarzschild Black Hole; 7.10 Particle and Light Motion Near Higher-Dimensional Black Holes; 8 Rotating Black Holes; 8.1 Kerr Spacetime; 8.2 Ergosphere. Horizon; 8.3 Particle and Light Motion in Equatorial Plane; 8.4 Spinning up the Black Hole; 8.5 Geodesics in Kerr Spacetime: General Case; 8.6 Light Propagation; 8.7 Hidden Symmetries of Kerr Spacetime 8.8 Energy Extraction from a Rotating Black Hole8.9 Black Holes in External Magnetic Field; 9 Classical and Quantum Fields near Black Holes; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Static Field in the Schwarzschild Spacetime; 9.3 Dimensional Reduction; 9.4 Quasinormal Modes; 9.5 Massless Fields in the Kerr Spacetime; 9.6 Black Hole in a Thermal Bath; 9.7 Hawking Effect; 9.8 Quantum Fields in the Rindler Spacetime; 9.9 Black Hole Thermodynamics; 9.10 Higher-Dimensional Generalizations; 10 Black Holes and All That Jazz; 10.1 Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes; 10.2 Black Holes: General Definition and Properties 10.3 Black Holes and Search for Gravitational Waves |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792253203321 |
Frolov V. P (Valerii Pavlovich) | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Introduction to black hole physics / / Valeri P. Frolov & Andrei Zelnikov |
Autore | Frolov V. P (Valerii Pavlovich) |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (505 p.) |
Disciplina | 523.8/875 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ZelnikovAndrei |
Soggetto topico |
Black holes (Astronomy)
Gravitational collapse Stars - Evolution |
ISBN | 0-19-100322-0 |
Classificazione | SCI005000SCI015000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; 1 Black Holes: Big Picture; 1.1 Gravity and Black Holes; 1.2 Brief History of Black Holes; 1.3 'Dark Stars' vs. Black Holes; 1.4 Final State of Stellar Evolution; 1.5 Equilibrium of Gravitating Systems; 1.6 Important Notions of Astrophysics; 1.7 Black Holes in Astrophysics and Cosmology; 1.8 Stellar-Mass Black Holes; 1.9 Supermassive Black Holes; 1.10 Primordial Black Holes; 1.11 Black Holes in Theoretical Physics; 1.12 Black Holes and Extra Dimensions; 2 Physics in a Uniformly Accelerated Frame; 2.1 Minkowski Spacetime and Its Symmetries
2.2 Minkowski Spacetime in Curved Coordinates2.3 Uniformly Accelerated Reference Frame; 2.4 Homogeneous Gravitational Field; 2.5 Causal Structure; 2.6 Wick's Rotation in the Rindler Space; 3 Riemannian Geometry; 3.1 Differential Manifold. Tensors; 3.2 Metric; 3.3 Covariant Derivative; 3.4 Lie and Fermi Transport; 3.5 Curvature Tensor; 3.6 Parallel Transport of a Vector; 3.7 Spacetime Symmetries; 3.8 Submanifold; 3.9 Integration; 4 Particle Motion in Curved Spacetime; 4.1 Equations of Motion; 4.2 Phase Space; 4.3 Complete Integrability; 5 Einstein Equations; 5.1 Einstein-Hilbert Action 5.2 Einstein Equations5.3 Linearized Gravity; 5.4 Gravitational radiation; 5.5 Gravity in Higher-Dimensions; 6 Spherically Symmetric Black Holes; 6.1 Spherically Symmetric Gravitational Field; 6.2 Schwarzschild-de Sitter Metric; 6.3 Global Structure of the Schwarzschild Spacetime; 6.4 Black Hole Interior; 6.5 Painlevè-Gullstrand Metric; 6.6 Eddington-Finkelstein Coordinates; 6.7 Charged Black Holes; 6.8 Higher-Dimensional Spherical Black Holes; 7 Particles and Light Motion in Schwarzschild Spacetime; 7.1 Equations of Motion; 7.2 Particle Trajectories; 7.3 Kepler's Law; 7.4 Light Propagation 7.5 Ray-Tracing in Schwarzschild Spacetime7.6 Black Hole as a Gravitational Lens; 7.7 Radiation from an Object Moving Around the Black Hole; 7.8 Equations of Motion in 'Tilted' Spherical Coordinates; 7.9 Magnetized Schwarzschild Black Hole; 7.10 Particle and Light Motion Near Higher-Dimensional Black Holes; 8 Rotating Black Holes; 8.1 Kerr Spacetime; 8.2 Ergosphere. Horizon; 8.3 Particle and Light Motion in Equatorial Plane; 8.4 Spinning up the Black Hole; 8.5 Geodesics in Kerr Spacetime: General Case; 8.6 Light Propagation; 8.7 Hidden Symmetries of Kerr Spacetime 8.8 Energy Extraction from a Rotating Black Hole8.9 Black Holes in External Magnetic Field; 9 Classical and Quantum Fields near Black Holes; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Static Field in the Schwarzschild Spacetime; 9.3 Dimensional Reduction; 9.4 Quasinormal Modes; 9.5 Massless Fields in the Kerr Spacetime; 9.6 Black Hole in a Thermal Bath; 9.7 Hawking Effect; 9.8 Quantum Fields in the Rindler Spacetime; 9.9 Black Hole Thermodynamics; 9.10 Higher-Dimensional Generalizations; 10 Black Holes and All That Jazz; 10.1 Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes; 10.2 Black Holes: General Definition and Properties 10.3 Black Holes and Search for Gravitational Waves |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813340003321 |
Frolov V. P (Valerii Pavlovich) | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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