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Fundamental Questions of Practical Cosmology

Fundamental Questions of Practical Cosmology

Pekka Teerikorpi / Yurij Baryshev

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2011
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Astronomía, espacio y tiempo
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9789400723788

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Chapter 1 The golden age of cosmological physics.- Chapter 2 Distance measurement and cosmography.- Chapter 3 Cosmic distances and selection biases.- Chapter 4 Cosmological redshift and the distance scale.- Chapter 5 Gravitational physics for cosmic scales.- Chapter 6 Predictions of gravity theories.- Chapter 7 The Friedmann model.- Chapter 8 Classical observational tests of world models.- Chapter 9 Constructing universes: a gallery of ideas.- Chapter 10 Large-scale structure: methods of analysis.- Chapter 11 The inhomogeneous galaxy universe: observational results.- Chapter 12 Some outstanding problems of cosmological physics.- Appendices.- Bibliography.

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