MODERN COSMOLOGY

Analysis of the solar data 307 two degrees of freedom (the oscillation parameters). In fits including the total rates, there is ...

308 Neutrino oscillations: a phenomenological overview 10.4.4 Three-flavour oscillations in matter As stated in section 10.2, fo ...

Conclusions 309 Figure 10.10.Results of the global three-flavour MSW fit to all data. Note that, in the first two panels, the 99 ...

310 Neutrino oscillations: a phenomenological overview Figure 10.11. Allowed regions in the plane(δm^2 ,sin^2 φ), assuming maxim ...

References 311 References [1] Kajita T 2000Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 8544 [2] Super-Kamiokande Collaboration 1998Phys. Rev. L ...

Chapter 11 Highlights in modern observational cosmology Piero Rosati European Southern Observatory, Garching b. Munchen, ̈ Germa ...

The cosmological framework 313 11.2.1 Friedmann cosmological background What is generally referred to as thestandard cosmologica ...

314 Highlights in modern observational cosmology with
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k= 1 ,
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The cosmological framework 315 11.2.2.1 Angular diameters Photons from our distant object at radial distancerfollow radial, null ...

316 Highlights in modern observational cosmology geometry (inverse square law). Observations (i.e. fluxes, luminosities) in a gi ...

The cosmological framework 317 where, as usual, we definedS^2 as sinh^2 if
k >0 (open universe) and sin^2 if
k<0 (close u ...

318 Highlights in modern observational cosmology (a) (b) Figure 11.1. (a) Lookback time as a function of the redshift for three ...

The cosmological framework 319 11.2.3.1 Number counts By number counts we mean the surface density on the sky of a given class o ...

320 Highlights in modern observational cosmology the nearby universe, where curvature terms can be neglected, are characterized ...

Galaxy surveys 321 11.3 Galaxy surveys 11.3.1 Overview Over the last ten years, significant progress has been made in both obser ...

322 Highlights in modern observational cosmology Large area surveys APM (Automatic Plate-measuring Machine, e.g. Maddoxet al199 ...

Galaxy surveys 323 Figure 11.2. Several optical and near-IR surveys (carried out over the last ten years) in the depth–solid ang ...

324 Highlights in modern observational cosmology converting from observed to rest-frame luminosities. By counting sources in dif ...

Galaxy surveys 325 Figure 11.3. A compilation of number counts in the U, B, I, K bands from different surveys (Fergusonet al2000 ...

326 Highlights in modern observational cosmology compute the K-corrections). Such assumptions reflect observations of the nearby ...