MODERN COSMOLOGY

476 Index

profiles, 436
deprojection, 76
detector noise, 244
deuterium measurements, 249
de Sitter spacetime, 166
diffusion damping, 227
dimensionality of symmetry
groups, 126
distance measure, 315
distant-observer approximation, 74
Doppler peak, 96
double readout, 273, 274, 280
dynamical systems approach, 134

e-foldings, 25
Einstein, 379
field equations, 109, 123
cosmological, 225
tensor, 16
Einstein radius, 392, 393
Einstein–de Sitter, 25
electromagnetic field, 114
energy condition, 111
energy–momentum tensor, 14, 110,
114
ensemble average power, 94
equation of state, 114
γ-law, 115
equilibrium points, 136
ergodic, 59
Euler’s equation, 15
evolution equations for fluctuations,
423
exclusion plot, 269, 276
expansion scalar, 113

false vacuum, 160
Faraday rotation, 257
fermion mass, 191
Dirac, 191
Majorana, 191
fingers of God, 80
Fisher information matrix, 246
flatness

from inflation, 259

problem, 24

tests of, 252

fractal, 61

fractal dimension, 354, 369

fractal galaxy distribution, 353

free-streaming, 55, 227

Friedmann, 108

equation, 22, 131

models, 313, 314

Friedmann–Lemaˆıtre models, 130

FRW metric, 224

fundamental observers, 19

FWHM, 94

gauge

freedom of metric perturbations,

225

transformation, 10

gauge invariant formalism, 225

gaussianity

from inflation, 260

tests of, 255

general relativity, 379

goldstino, 216

gravitational lens, 384

gravitational lensing, 247, 378, 379

gravitational potentials, 242

gravitino, 203, 213

non-thermal, 213

production, 215

group

of isometries, 126

of isotropy, 126

of symmetries, 127

halo, 427

Hankel transform, 69

harmonic boundary conditions, 59

harmonic expansions, 232

microwave background, 228

high resolution, 427

high-baryon models, 361

homogeneity, 359