The Cosmic Microwave Background
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The Cosmic Microwave Background

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The Cosmic Microwave Background

About this book

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the radiation left over from the Big Bang, is arguably the most important topic in modern cosmology. Its theory and observation have revolutionized cosmology from an order-of-magnitude science to a precision science. This graduate textbook describes CMB physics from first principles in a detailed yet pedagogical way, assuming only that the reader has a working knowledge of General Relativity. Among the changes in this second edition are new chapters on non-Gaussianities in the CMB and on large-scale structure, and extended discussions on lensing and baryon acoustic oscillations, topics that have developed significantly in the last decade. Discussions of CMB experiments have been updated from WMAP data to the new Planck data. The CMB success story in estimating cosmological parameters is then treated in detail, conveying the beauty of the interplay of theoretical understanding and precise experimental measurements.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781107135222
eBook ISBN
9781009028653
Edition
2
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Cosmology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1 The Homogeneous and Isotropic Universe
  9. 2 Perturbation Theory
  10. 3 Initial Conditions
  11. 4 CMB Anisotropies
  12. 5 CMB Polarization and the Total Angular Momentum Approach
  13. 6 Non-Gaussianities
  14. 7 Lensing and the CMB
  15. 8 Observations of Large-Scale Structure
  16. 9 Cosmological Parameter Estimation
  17. 10 The Frequency Spectrum of the CMB
  18. Appendix 1 Fundamental Constants, Units and Relations
  19. Appendix 2 General Relativity
  20. Appendix 3 Perturbations
  21. Appendix 4 Special Functions
  22. Appendix 5 Entropy Production and Heat Flux
  23. Appendix 6 Mixtures
  24. Appendix 7 Statistical Utensils
  25. Appendix 8 Approximation for the Tensor C Spectrum
  26. Appendix 9 Boltzmann Equation in a Universe with Curvature
  27. Appendix 10 Perturbations of the Luminosity Distance
  28. References
  29. Index