Concepts in Astrophysics and Cosmology

Observation and Theory

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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Beskrivning

Over recent years, astronomy and cosmology have made extraordinary progress in addressing and solving many fundamental problems, opening up new areas of physical enquiry. This book provides a comprehensive study of these developments, emphasising the synergies between observation and theory, from the very early Universe to the study of exoplanets. It focuses on how a vast range of physical processes and techniques may be applied to understanding current problems of modern astrophysics and cosmology. Coverage spans the whole of the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as astroparticle physics, incorporating cosmic rays, neutrino astronomy, dark matter and dark energy studies and gravitational waves. The book is written for final-year undergraduates and first-year graduate students in the physical sciences, with an appropriate level of mathematics, to help them prepare for carrying out frontier research in astrophysics and cosmology.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-02-28
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:750
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009621038

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Malcolm Longair, CBE, FRS, FRSE, is Jacksonian Professor Emeritus of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1980 to 1990 and Head of the Cavendish Laboratory from 1997 to 2005. His books with Cambridge University Press include 'High Energy Astrophysics' (2011), 'The Cosmic Century' (2006), 'Quantum Concepts in Physics' (2013), 'Maxwell's Enduring Legacy' (2016) and 'Theoretical Concepts in Physics' (2020).

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Introduction: Our Universe, Its Contents and How They are Observed: 1. Observations of the sky; 2. The language of astronomy and the detection of astronomical signals; Part II. Stars, Their Structure and Evolution: 3. Stellar structure; 4. The Sun and post-main sequence evolution; 5. The birth and death of stars; 6. Dead stars; Part III. General Relativity and Black Holes: 7. General relativity and curved space-time; 8. The Schwarzschild metric and black holes; 9. Testing general relativity; Part IV. Our Galaxy, Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies: 10. Our galaxy; 11. Galaxies; 12. Clusters of galaxies; Part V. High Energy Astrophysics and Active Galactic Nuclei: 13. Active galaxies and black holes; 14. Accretion power in astrophysics; 15. Radiation of relativistic particles and jets; 16. The acceleration of high energy particles; Part VI. Cosmology: The Basic Infrastructure: 17. An introduction to cosmology; 18. The Friedman world models; 19. Testing the Friedman models: the cosmological parameters; Part VII. Astrophysical Cosmology: 20. The thermal history of the universe and primordial nucleosynthesis; 21. The origin of galaxies and large-scale structures in the universe; 22. The concordance Λ_CDM model; 23. Spatial fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB); 24. The astrophysics of the non-linear universe: from the dark ages to the present day; 25. The evolution of galaxies and active galaxies with cosmic epoch; 26. The intergalactic medium and the cosmic star formation rate; 27. Fundamental problems of cosmology; References; Author index; Object index; Index.