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The Early Universe

Facts and Fiction

  • Textbook
  • © 2003

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  • One of the classics in cosmology
  • Considerably expanded and many chapters have been rewritten
  • Especially, the book now meets the demands of the rapidly growing fields of nuclear and particle astrophysics
  • Can also be used as a textbook in graduate courses
  • 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)

  1. The Standard Big-Bang Model

  2. Particle Physics and Cosmology

  3. Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation

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About this book

Fourteen years is a long time, and especially in the field of cosmology new observational results and new theoretical ideas seem to appear at a steadily increasing rate. It is achallenge to try to review the current status, to give a reasonably fair account of new developments, and not to increase the size of the book out of all proportion. So this fourth edition is practically a new book, with many chapters and sections newly written, not just updated. I have kept the original layout of the book with three parts concerned with (I) the standard model, (II) some basic implications of quantum field theory, and (III) quest ions of structure formation. I have given special emphasis to the new observations of the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background, and attempted to explain their importance for cosmology as well as for structure formation models. There have also been improved measurements in almost every cosmologically relevant field, from the Rubble constant to element abundances and galaxy distribution statistics. Quite surprisingly, the standard cosmological models can still accommodate all these new obser­ vations.

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"Written in a style accessible to graduate (even advanced undergraduate) students, yet so densely informative as to be valuable also to the author's professional peers … A splendid accomplishment; a pleasure to study in detail, but fun also simply to browse in." SciTech Book News

Authors and Affiliations

  • Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

    Gerhard Börner

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