Introduction to Cosmology

266 Index

Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), 18, 44, 73
distance to, 257
Laser Interferometer Space Antennasee
LISA
last scattering, 134
last scattering surface (LSS), 133, 134, 153,
195
Le Verrier, Urban, 66
Legendre polynomials, 181
Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, 3
Lemaˆıtre, Georges, 82
Lemaˆıtre cosmology, 91
see alsoFriedmann – Lemaˆıtre
cosmologies
Lemaˆıtre – Tolman – Bondi model, 251
lens
caustics, 74
convergence, 74
shear, 74
lensing
strong, 71
weak, 69, 71, 74
lepton number, 122
leptoquark thermodynamics, 144
lightseespeed of light
light cone, 28, 29
light element abundance, 139
light-like separation, 28
LIGO-type interferometer, 77
Lindblad, Bertil, 6
Linde’s Bubble Universe, 162, 167, 190
line element, 26
linear transformation, 26
LISA detector, 77, 78
lithium, 139
local galaxy group, 30, 41, 180, 201
Local SuperclusterseeLSC
lookback time, 83, 92, 244
loops, 156
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon, 26
Lorentz invariance, 45
Lorentz transformations, 26
LSC (Local Supercluster), 3, 41, 180, 202,
209, 221
distance to, 257
luminosity, 9, 42, 44
luminosity distance, 42, 190
Lyman limit, 140
Lyth bound, 165

M31seeAndromeda nebula

Mach, Ernst, 5

Mach’s principle, 49

MACHO (Massive Compact Halo Object),

213

magnetic monopoles, 156

magnitude

absolute, 42, 190

apparent, 42

magnitude – redshift relation, 190

main-sequence stars, 42

manifold, 26

curved, 35

higher-dimensional, 55

mass autocorrelation function, 207, 225, 227

mass density contrast, 224

mass of the Universe, 259

matter domination, 87, 88, 89, 117, 170

Maxwell, James Clerk, 120

Maxwell – Boltzmann distribution, 120

Maxwell – Lorentz equations, 115

mean free path, 10

Mercury, 45, 66

metals, meaning of term [to astronomers],

139

metric

flat, 36

Gauss – Bonnet, 251

Lemaˆıtre – Tolman – Bondi, 251

Minkowski, 28, 31, 32

Pythagorean, 30

Robertson – Walker, 36, 56, 81, 107, 247

Schwarzschild, 95, 100

metric tensor, 30

Michell, John, 4

microlensing, 73

Milky Way Galaxy, 2 – 6, 15, 16, 18, 19, 43,

44, 73, 140, 143, 180, 201, 204

dimensions, 257

Minkowski, Hermann, 27

Minkowski space-time, 27, 31

mirror matter, 214

monopole problem, 151, 156

multipole analysis, 180, 188

muons, 26, 128

naked singularity, 99

neutralino, 215

neutrino(s), 17

clouds, 218

decoupling of, 130

families, 138, 194, 259