New Insights into the Universe

Proceedings of a Summer School Held in València, Spain, 23¿27 September 1991
Herausgegeben:Martinez, Vicent J.; Portilla, Miguel; Saez, Diego

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Produktbeschreibung

Indispensable for the building of cosmological models areprecise observational data. To provide such data is the mainpurpose of this book. First, an analysis of recentcosmological observations using artificial satellites andlarge ground-based telescopes is given. Among these are theobservation of the spatial distribution of galaxies andclusters, the detection of peculiar velocity fields in largeregions, and the measurement of anisotropies in themicrowave background radiation. Second, the authors presenttheoretical models which best fit the given observationaldata. The book addresses graduate students and astronomersand astrophysicists.

Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Physics 408
• Verlag: Springer / Springer, Berlin
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9783662139080
• ISBN-10: 3662139081
• Artikelnr.: 41322774

Autorenporträt

The lectures of this summer school address astrophysicists and especially graduate students. The authors present observational data gathered by artificial satellites and ground-based telescopes. The findings are compared with theoretical cosmological models.

Inhaltsangabe

Statistics of cosmological density fields.- Large-scale structures and motions: Linear theory and statistics.- Clusters of galaxies as probes for the large scale structure.- Galaxy formation with gravitation, hydrodynamics and active star formation.- Secondary anisotropies in the CMB.- The Relikt missions: Results and prospects to detect the microwave background anisotropy.- ROSAT observations of clusters of galaxies.- Statistics of gravitational lensing 1: Strong lenses.- Statistics of gravitational lensing 2: Weak lenses.