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
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ROBERTBRANDENBERGER Brown University, Providence, RI, U.S.A .
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ISBN 978-94-010-5818-6 ISBN 978-94-011-4175-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-4175-8
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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
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