Overview
- Very timely book on very active research field with relevance to Cosmology and Fundamental Physics
- Provides a comprehensive account of the scientific results on high-redshift galaxies accumulated during the past ten years
- A valuable companion text for special lectures on the high-redshift universe and cosmic evolution
- Serves as important tool for research students starting a thesis work in the field of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology
- Provides a thorough introduction to the topic for interested researchers
- Designed as a tool for planning future observational and instrumental programs and projects
- Written for astronomers as well as for physicists not having prior astronomical knowledge
- Contains introductory chapters describing the basic concepts and notations used in modern astronomy and a brief overview of the present knowledge of the local universe
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library (AAL)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Part I The Context
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Part II Methods and Tools
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Part III Observational Results and their Interpretation
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Part IV An Outlook to the Future
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Book Title: High-Redshift Galaxies
Book Subtitle: Light from the Early Universe
Authors: Immo Appenzeller
Series Title: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75824-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-75823-5Published: 09 July 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51810-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-75824-2Published: 17 June 2009
Series ISSN: 0941-7834
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9698
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 352
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Measurement Science and Instrumentation