MODERN COSMOLOGY

Index 479

integrated, 223, 242
sampling variance, 63
scalar field, 111
scale factor, 20
scaling test, 76
Schwarzschild radius, 383
seasonal modulation, 267, 269
secondary anisotropies, 89
see-saw mechanism, 196
selection effects, 140
selection function, 70
shear
propagation equation, 118
tensor, 113
shear-free dust, 120
signal-to-noise eigenmodes, 67
Silk damping, 55, 227
singularity theorem, 117
slow-rolling approximation, 35
small universes, 141
Soldner, 379
sound horizon, 242, 253
source plane, 383
spatial topology, 131
spatially closed, 22
spatially homogeneous universes,
129, 130
spatially open, 22
specific intensity, 28
speed of light, 382
spherical Bessel functions, 70, 95
spherical harmonics, 69
stable clustering, 72
Standard Model (SM), 188–192
fermion masses, 191
gauge boson masses, 190
Higgs mechanism in, 189
star formation
history, 335
rate, 331, 334
Stokes parameters, 230
stress tensor, 110
string theory, 211
Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect, 247

super-Higgs effect, 216

superclusters, 345

superconformal symmetry, 212

supergravity, 211

superconformal, 213

superstring theory, 211

supersymmetry, 212

spontaneously broken, 216

surface brightness, 28, 317

surveys

clusters, 337, 339

galaxies, 322

selection methods, 322–324

strategies, 322

surveys, 345

temperature fluctuation

Doppler, 223

gravitational, 223

intrinsic, 223

tensor spherical harmonics, 233

tensor–scalar ratio, 240

tetrad

components, 122

formalism, 121

tight coupling, 226

tilt, 41, 101

time

delay, 382

derivative, 112

lookback, 314

Tolman–Bondi models, 130

topology of the universe

tests of, 257

tracker field, 45

transfer function, 55

Turnround, 58

universe

closed, 20

open, 21

virial theorem, 58

virialization, 58