Introduction to Cosmology

Index 265

Chaplygin gas, 246
DGP, 248
Einstein, 59
extended, 106
푓(푅), 246
Gauss – Bonnet, 251
k-essence, 244
Lemaˆıtre – Tolman – Bondi, 251
phantom fields, 245
quintessence, 241
tachyon fields, 245
‘Great Attractor’, 41, 221
distance to, 257
great circles, 32
Guth, Alan, 160

Halley, Edmund, 2
Hawking, Stephen, 99
Hawking radiation, 100, 101, 165
Hawking temperature, 102
HDM, 217
helium, 16, 137
ions, 137
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 120
Herman, Robert, 176
Herschel, William, 5
Hertzsprung – Russell relation, 42
hierarchical scenarios [cold dark matter
model], 218
hierarchy problem, 115
Higgs boson, 122, 123, 144
Higgs field, 155
Higgs-like potential, 159
Higgsino, 215
Hilbert, David, 58
see alsoEinstein – Hilbert action
homogeneity assumption, 2
horizon problem, 151, 153
HST (Hubble Space Telescope), 14, 44, 211,
212
Hubble, Edwin P., 5, 6
Hubble constant, 13
Hubble flow, 12, 14, 38, 209, 224
Hubble’s law, 2, 6, 11, 12, 14, 18, 41, 66
Hubble parameter, 12, 125, 258
Hubble radius, 12, 39, 257
Hubble time, 12
Hulse, R. A., 67
Hydra – Centaurus supercluster, 30, 41, 180,
221
hydrogen

atom, 121, 132

burning of, 15, 43, 140

clouds, 139, 191, 199, 231

ions, 137

hypothesis testing, 14

ideal fluid, 59

inertial frames, 6

inertial mass, 20, 49

inflation

chaotic, 151, 159, 165

confirmation of, 193

consensus, 151, 158, 171

cosmic, 151

eternal, 162

slow-roll, 151, 158

inflaton field, 158, 239, 243

information loss paradox, 100

infrared light, 43, 73

interaction

electromagnetic, 115, 122, 129, 133

weak, 121

see alsogravitational repulsion

intergalactic medium (IGM), 17, 140, 143

interstellar medium, 140, 143

intracluster medium (ICM), 201, 208

isocurvature fluctuations, 169, 182, 183

isothermal perturbations, 169

isotropy assumption, 2

Jeans, James, 230

Jeans instability, 230

Jeans mass, 228, 230

Jeans wavelength, 230, 231

Jordan frame, 107

jupiters, 213

Kant, Immanuel, 3

Kapteyn, Jacobus C., 204

Kelvin, Lord [William Thomson], 9, 10

Kepler, Johannes, 2

Kerr – Newmann black hole, 99

kination, 240, 241

KK (Kaluza Klein) states, 214

Klein – Gordon equation, 158, 239

Lagrange point, 51

Lagrangian density, 107

Lambert, Johann Heinrich, 5

Landau damping, 216

Laplace, Pierre Simon de, 4

lapse function, 251