Introduction to Cosmology

Index

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Abell 2744 cluster, 212
absolute luminosity, 9, 42, 44
absolute magnitude, 42, 190
absolute space, 5, 7, 30
absorption lines, 28, 133, 140
ACT-CLJ0102 – 4915 cluster, 212
action principle, 58, 59
active galactic nuclei (AGN), 17, 106
adiabatic expansion, 86, 115, 120
adiabatic fluctuations, 169, 182, 231
affine connections, 56, 107
age of the Universe, 14, 92, 195, 244, 259
Alpher, Ralph, 176
Andromeda nebula, 5, 6, 12, 177, 201
distance to, 257
angular size distance, 43
anisotropy
quadrupole, 75, 182, 185, 188
sources of, 182
annihilation, 101
baryon – anti-baryon, 142
electron – positron, 101, 121, 129
leptoquark boson, 145
monopole – anti-monopole, 156
pion, 127
WIMP, 216
anthropic principle, 151, 169
anthropocentric view, 2
antibaryons, 17
anti-bias, 209

anti-de Sitter universe, 93

antigravity, 146, 236

antineutrinos, 17

antiparticles, 121

anti-protons, 121

apparent luminosity, 9

apparent magnitude, 42

astrophysical constants [listed], 258

autocorrelation function

mass, 207, 225

temperature, 180

axino, 216

axion, 216

B-balls, 214

Baby Bullet, 212

BAO (baryonic acoustic oscillations), 14

baryon, 135, 138, 143, 168, 194, 216, 231

mirror, 214

baryon – anti-baryon asymmetry, 142, 168

baryon number, 122

per unit entropy, 146

baryon number density, 135, 142

baryon-to-photon ratio, 138, 142, 194, 259

baryonic matter, 17

dark, 213

baryosynthesis, 142, 146

Bekenstein, J., 101

Bekenstein – Hawking formula, 101

beta decay, 137

Introduction to Cosmology, Fourth Edition. Matts Roos
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