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Introduction to Cosmology
Authors: Gourgouliatos, Konstantinos Nektarios
Reviewer: Papadakis, Iossif
Subject: NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS > COSMOLOGY
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS > COSMOLOGY > BIG BANG THEORY
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS > ASTRONOMICAL OBJECTS > INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM > DARK MATTER
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS > ASTRONOMICAL OBJECTS > GALAXIES
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS > CELESTIAL MECHANICS > GRAVITATION
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS > COSMOLOGY > DARK ENERGY
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS > GALACTIC PHYSICS > GALAXY DYNAMICS
NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS > OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY
Keywords:
Universe large scale structure
Cosmological Principle
Cosmic Microwave Radiation Background
Galaxy clusters
Cosmological Inflation
Cosmological distances
Primordial Nucleosynthesis
Standard Cosmological Model
Graviational lense
Cosmological simulations
N-body code
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Abstract:
Cosmology is the study of the structure and the evolution of the Universe in large scale. This book covers the topic of Cosmology via three main directions. 1) The main astronomical observations that shaped our understanding of Cosmology and lead to the model of the expanding universe are discussed. Then, a Newtonian approach is presented. This is followed by a brief introduction in the concept of curvature, so that, through General Relativity, the equations governing the evolution the universe depending on its content are introduced. The main definitions of distances used in Cosmology are also presented in this context. 2) Next, we follow the evolutions of the Universe starting from its first stages, the decoupling of fundamental forces, the synthesis of the first element and the emission of the Cosmic Background Radiation reaching the dark ages and the reionisation epoch. The physical mechanisms interpreting these phenomena are studied. 3) We complete our study exploring the Standard Model of Cosmology and its challenges. We examine possible answers to open Cosmology problems. Furthermore, topics related to dark matter and gravitational lensing are presented and some cosmological problems that can be solved numerically are discussed.
Linguistic Editors: Stavroulopoulou, Olga
Graphic Editors: Stavroulopoulou, Olga
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 23-07-2024
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-5667-89-4
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-115
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/8615
Bibliographic Reference: Gourgouliatos, K. (2024). Introduction to Cosmology [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-115
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. A Universe without a Centre
2. The Expansion of the Universe
3. Newtonian Cosmology
4. Relativistic Cosmology
5. Cosmological Models
6. Cosmological Scales
7. The Hot Young Universe
8. Primordial Nucleosynthesis
9. Cosmic Microwave Background
10. The Standard Cosmological Model ΛCMD
11. The Inflationary Expansion
12. The Baryonic Content of the Universe
13. The Large Scale Structure
14. Galaxies and Dark Matter
15. Gravitational Lense
16. Cosmological Numerical Problems
Number of pages 222
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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