MODERN COSMOLOGY

478 Index

numerical simulations, 421

observational variables, 139
observations
anisotropic and inhomogeneous
Models, 142
Bianchi models, 142
Occam’s Razor, 252
occupation numbers, 166
orthogonal spatial derivative, 112
Ostriker–Vishniac effect, 247

pairwise velocity dispersion, 348
parameter curvature matrix, 246
particle horizon, 27, 141
perfect fluid, 114
perturbations
adiabatic, 237
from inflation, 260
tests of, 254
isocurvature, 237
outside horizon, 260
primordial, 240
scale-invariant, 260
tensor
tests of, 255
phase planes, 131, 137
phonon-mediated detection, 271,
272
pixelization noise, 244
Planck density, 172
Planck satellite, 251
point-like lens, 382
polarization tensor, 232
power spectrum, 60, 357, 361
isotropic, 60
microwave background
variance, 245
microwave background
polarization, 234
microwave background
temperature, 228
scale invariant, 61
power spectrum

microwave background

estimator, 228

pre-heating, 173, 176

precision cosmology, 219, 248

prewhitening, 66

primary anisotropies, 89

primordial nucleosynthesis, 240,

249

principal components analysis, 65

prior probability distribution, 250

projected correlation function, 75

projection tensor, 112

proof of almost-FL Geometry, 143

quadrupole polarization source, 231

quantum fluctuations, 168

quenching factor, 271, 273

quintessence, 205–207, 240

Rparity, 198, 283

radiation-dominated, 87

Raychaudhuri equation, 116, 131

recombination, 87, 224

redshift, 22, 140, 314

photometric, 331–333

space distortions, 347

redshift–space correlation function,

79

REFLEX survey, 359

refraction index, 382

reheating, 36, 172

reionization, 241

tests of, 257

relativistic enthalpy, 15

resolution, 433

Ricci

identities, 116

tensor, 16, 109

Riemann tensor, 16

Robertson, 108

rotation coefficients, 122

RW metric, 21

Sachs–Wolfe effect, 12, 223