Introduction to Cosmology

Index 263

temperature, 176, 259
see alsoCMB
cosmochronometers, 15, 190
cosmological coincidence problem, 236
cosmological constant, 84, 85, 93, 159, 235,
259
decaying, 238
cosmological constant problem, 236
cosmological constants [listed], 258
cosmological principle, 3, 6
cosmological redshift, 13
Coulomb force, 115
coupling constants, 115
covariance principle, 54
covariant derivative, 56
covariant vector, 54
CP violation, 144, 145
CPT symmetry, 147
critical curves, 74
critical density [of the Universe], 20, 258
critical temperature, 113, 161
curvature parameter, 35
curvature perturbations, 169, 182, 183
curved manifold, 35
curved space – time, 30
cusped profile, 201
cyclic universe, 151, 169, 190

dark energy, 19, 168, 172, 218, 230, 235
dark matter, 19, 169, 199
baryonic, 213
candidates, 213
cold, 215
distribution, 216
halo density profiles, 200
hot, 217
warm, 218
DASI (Degree Angular Scale Interferometer),
175, 189
de Sitter, Willem, 6
de Sitter cosmology, 91 , 93, 162, 243
de Sitter metric, 93, 94
deceleration, 82
deceleration parameter, 39, 76, 195, 259
decoupling, 134, 195
electron, 135
neutrino, 130
deflation, 241
degeneracy pressure, 18, 123
degrees of freedom, 123, 259
effective, 124

density fluctuations, 223, 227

density parameters, 20, 83, 85, 87, 132, 191,

193

values listed, 259

density perturbations, 164

deuterium, 135, 140

bottleneck, 136

deuteron(s), 135

photodisintegration of, 135

DGP (Dvali – Gabadadze – Porrati) model,

248

self-accelerating branch, 248

self-decelerating branch, 248, 249

Dicke, Robert, 177

see alsoBrans – Dicke theory

dipole anisotropy, 180

Dirac, Paul A. M., 156

see alsoFermi – Dirac statistics

distance ladder, 43

DLSCLJ0916.2+2951 cluster, 213

DMR (Differential Microwave Radiometer),

180, 184

domain walls, 156

Doppler blueshift, 30

Doppler peak, 184

Doppler redshift, 30

dust, interstellar, 5, 9, 17, 87, 90, 213

dwarf spheroidal galaxies, 206

Eddington, Arthur S., 70

Einstein, Albert, 4, 6

Einstein – de Sitter universe, 83, 89, 157, 190

Einstein

frame, 107

gravity, 59

ring, 71, 72

universe, 84, 93

Einstein – Hilbert action, 58, 106, 160, 246,

247

in Jordan frame, 107

Einstein’s mass – energy relation, 55

Einstein’s theory of general relativity, 6, 49

Einstein’s theory of special relativity, 25

‘El Gordo’ cluster, 212

electromagnetic cross-section, 129

electromagnetic interactions, 115, 122, 129,

133

electromagnetic radiation, 258

electron, 17

electron degeneracy pressure, 18, 123

electron – positron reactions, 101, 121, 129