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Schäfer, Björn Malte: Cosmology: From the Large-Scale Structure of Spacetime to Galaxy Formation, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2022 (Lecture Notes). https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1057

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https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1057
ISBN 978-3-96822-168-7 (PDF)
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Published

12/15/2022

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Authors

Björn Malte Schäfer

Cosmology

From the Large-Scale Structure of Spacetime to Galaxy Formation

Lecture Notes

The lecture notes give an overview of modern cosmology: After introducing the necessary concepts from general relativity, the FLRW-class of cosmological models is discussed, with emphasis on dark energy. Cosmic structure formation, the necessity of dark matter and the interplay between statistics and nonlinear fluid mechanics are treated in detail. The physics behind cosmological observations that have led to the standard model of cosmology is explained, in particular supernovae, the cosmic microwave background and gravitational lensing.

Björn Malte Schäfer works at Heidelberg University on problems in modern cosmology, relativity, statistics, and on theoretical physics in general.

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Table of Contents
Pages
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Front matter
Contents
V–VI
A Cosmology and the dynamics of the Universe
1–6
B Gravity and concepts of relativity
7–26
C FLRW-cosmologies
27–41
D Observations of FLRW-dynamics
43–45
E Thermodynamics and cosmology
47–61
F Early universe and cosmic inflation
63–74
G Fluid mechanics
75–85
H Cosmic structure formation
87–104
I Statistics in cosmology
105–123
Index
126

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