Modern Cosmology – Scott Dodelson
- Title: Modern Cosmology
- Author: Scott Dodelson
- Pages: 464 pages
- Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (March 7, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0122191412
- ISBN-13: 978-0122191411
Book Description
Modern Cosmology begins with an introduction to the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric, including careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. From this starting point, the reader is introduced to perturbations about an FRW universe: their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations, their generation by primordial inflation, and their observational consequences. These consequences include the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) featuring acoustic peaks and polarization, the matter power spectrum with baryonic wiggles, and their detection via photometric galaxy surveys, redshift distortions, cluster abundances, and weak lensing. The book concludes with a long chapter on data analysis.
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