Introduction to Cosmology

Index Note: Figures are indicated byitalic page numbers,Tablesbybold page numbers Abell 2744 cluster, 212 absolute luminosity, 9 ...

262 Index bias, 209 BICEP2 telescope, 185, 189, 193 Big Bang, 88, 89, 99, 112, 154, 177, 241 nucleosynthesis, 16, 17, 111, 134 B ...

Index 263 temperature, 176, 259 see alsoCMB cosmochronometers, 15, 190 cosmological coincidence problem, 236 cosmological consta ...

264 Index electroweak interactions, 121 elliptical galaxies, 204 endothermic reactions, 134, 135 energy conservation law, 86, 11 ...

Index 265 Chaplygin gas, 246 DGP, 248 Einstein, 59 extended, 106 푓(푅), 246 Gauss – Bonnet, 251 k-essence, 244 Lemaˆıtre – Tolman ...

266 Index Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), 18, 44, 73 distance to, 257 Laser Interferometer Space Antennasee LISA last scattering, ...

Index 267 number density, 131, 179 oscillation of, 122, 146 sterile, 215, 218 temperature contribution, 124, 131 neutron degener ...

268 Index radiation intensity, 178, 188 radiation pressure, 87, 224, 231 radio signal delay, 67 radius of the Universe, 90, 165 ...

Index 269 structure stimulation, 220 subconstituent models, 114 Sunyaev – Zel’dovich Effect (SZE), 191, 212, 231, 232 superclust ...

270 Index white dwarfs, 18, 45, 123 white hole, 99 Wilson, Robert, 176 WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles), 215, 216 WM ...

Earth 1 AU Sun 1 ×^10 (^9) m 60 ° 20 ° Figure 4.4 eLISA orbits in the Solar System [4]. Reproduced with permission of Pau Amaro- ...

0.175 0.15 0.125 0.1 0.075 0.05 0.025 0 0.05 0.025 –0.025 2001 2005 1992 2010 1995 2002 SgrA* RA-offset (arcsec) S2 (S02) 0 – 0. ...

90 ° 6000 5000 4000 3000 Dℓ [μ K 2 ] 2000 1000 0 2 10 50 500 1000 Multipole moment, ℓ 1500 2000 2500 18 ° 1 ° 0.2° Angular scale ...

500 D TEl /l [ μK 2 ] 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.4 Planck 143 +^217 0 1000 1500 2000 2500 l Figure 8.4The temperature–E-polarization cross- ...

0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 ΩM 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 Ω λ Decelerating Accelerating No Big Bang Figure 8.5The 1휎and 2휎cosmo ...

0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 ΩM 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 W Figure 8.6 The 1휎and 2휎cosmological constraints in훺m,푊 space using PanSTARRS1 ...

90 80 70 60 50 40 30 0.0 0.5 1.0 Simon9 Stern2 Moresco8 Buscal Zhang4 Blake3 Chuang1 z H (z )/(1 + z) 1.5 2.0 Figure 11.1Evidenc ...

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 Redshift z 0.5 0 0.5 1 Δ ( m M ) always accelerates accelerates now decelerates in the past always decelerates ...

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