Large Scale Structure Formation

The modern Persian word for cosmology is "Keyhan-shenakht", which is also the title of a Persian book written more than 800 years ago. The same term can also be found in Old Persian. In spite of this old tradition, modern cosmology is a new~omer within th

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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 247

EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W. B. BURTON, Sterrewacht, Leiden, P.O. Box 9513,2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands [email protected]

Executive Committee J. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands MEMBERS I. APPENZELLER, Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Konigstuhl, Germany J. N. BAHCALL, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A. F. BERTOLA, Universita di Padova, Italy J. P. CASSINELLI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. C. J. CESARSKY, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France O. ENGVOLD, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, JlLA, Boulder, U.S.A. P. G. MURDIN, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge, U.K. F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India K. SATO, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan F. H. SHU, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. "B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia Y. TANAKA, Institute of Space & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan S. TREMAINE, CITA, Princeton University, U.S.A. N. O. WEISS, University of Cambridge, U.K.

LARGESCALE STRUCTURE FORMATION Edited by

REZA MANSOURI Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics & Mathematics, Tehran, Iran

and

ROBERTBRANDENBERGER Brown University, Providence, RI, U.S.A .

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

1

Homogeneous Cosmological Models A. Blanchard

3

The Standard Big Bang Cosmology S. Sarkar

37

Aspects of Gravitational Clustering T. Padmanabhan

97

Inflationary Cosmology: Progress and Problems R. If.Brandenberger

169

An Introduction to CMB Anisotropies M Zaldarriaga

213

Cosmic Defects and Cosmology J. Magueijo and R. If. Brandenberger

279

Imaginative Cosmology R. If. Brandenberger and J. Magueijo

331

Microlensing: Latest News M Moniez

373

FOREWORD

The modern Persian word for cosmology is "Keyhan-shenakht", which is also the title of a Persian book written more than 800 years ago. The same term can also be found in Old Persian. In spite of this old tradition, modern cosmology is a new~omer wit