Modern Cosmology
- Book Review,
by Scott Dodelson
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Intended for beginning graduate students in physics and astronomy, this textbook introduces the Freidman-Robertson-Walker metric, describes the perturbations related to the FRW universe, and outlines the techniques of data analysis. Dodelson is affiliated with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Chicago.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Review
"...very up to date and gives excellent treatments of structure formation...The most complete such description in an textbook."
Paul H. Frampton, Universtiy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Oct 2003)
"...provides an excellent introduction to some of the most dynamical areas in physics and astronomy."
Milan M. Cirkovic, Astronomical Obervatory of Belgrade, FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS (Oct 2003)
"New graduate students...should find it easy to learn from this book."
-George Efstathiou, University of Cambride, England (July 2004)
Review
"…very up to date and gives excellent treatments of structure formation…The most complete such description in an textbook."
— Paul H. Frampton, Universtiy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Oct 2003)
"…provides an excellent introduction to some of the most dynamical areas in physics and astronomy."
— Milan M. Cirkovic, Astronomical Obervatory of Belgrade, FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS (Oct 2003)
Book Description
Modern Cosmology begins with an introduction to the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric, including careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. From this starting point, the reader is introduced to perturbations about an FRW universe: their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations, their generation by primordial inflation, and their observational consequences. These consequences include the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) featuring acoustic peaks and polarization, the matter power spectrum with baryonic wiggles, and their detection via photometric galaxy surveys, redshift distortions, cluster abundances, and weak lensing. The book concludes with a long chapter on data analysis.
Modern Cosmology is the first book to explain in detail the structure of the acoustic peaks in the CMB, the E/B decomposition in polarization which may allow for detection of primordial gravity waves, and the modern analysis techniques used on increasingly large cosmological data sets. Readers will gain the tools needed to work in cosmology and learn how modern observations are rapidly revolutionizing our picture of the universe.
* Provides foundations, calculations, and interpretations which illuminate current thinking in cosmology
* Covers the major advances in cosmology over the past decade
* Includes over 100 unique, pedagogical figures
Book Info
Provides foundations, calculations, and interpretations which illuminate current thinking in cosmology. Covers the major advances in cosmology over the past decade.
From the Back Cover
Modern Cosmology begins with an introduction to the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric, including careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. From this starting point, the reader is introduced to perturbations about an FRW universe:
their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations, their generation by primordial inflation, and their
observational consequences. These consequences include the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave
background (CMB) featuring acoustic peaks and polarization, the matter power spectrum with baryonic wiggles, and their detection via photometric galaxy surveys, redshift distortions, cluster abundances, and weak lensing. The book
concludes with a long chapter on data analysis. Modern Cosmology is the first book to explain in detail the structure of the acoustic peaks in the CMB; the E/B decomposition in polarization which may allow for detection of primordial gravity waves; and the modern analysis techniques used on increasingly large cosmological data sets.
Readers will gain the tools needed to work in cosmology and will learn how modern observations are rapidly revolutionizing our picture of the universe.
About the Author
Scott Dodelson is Head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at Fermilab and Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He received in Ph.D. at Columbia University and was a research fellow at Harvard before coming to Fermilab and Chicago. He is the author of more than seventy papers on cosmology, most of which focused on the cosmic microwave background and the large scale structure of the universe.
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