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暗能量是当今天体物理学和宇宙物理学领域重要研究领域。L.阿门多拉、辻川信二著的《暗能量(理论与观测)(英文版)》全面介绍了暗能量的概念与理论,以及暗能量的观测方法观测结果。本书各章有有习题,书后附有习题详解。本书可作为物理学专业研究生教材。 -
作者介绍
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目录
Preface
List of frequently used symbols
1 Overview
2 Expansion history of the Universe
2.1 Friedmann equations
2.2 Hubble's law
2.3 Matter species in the Universe
2.4 Cosmic distances
2.5 The equation of state of dark energy
2.6 Problems
3 Correlation function and power spectrum
3.1 The correlation function
3.2 The n-point correlation function
3.3 The power spectrum
3.4 From the power spectrum to the moments
3.5 Problems
4 Basics of cosmological perturbation theory
4.1 Perturbing General Relativity
4.2 The Newtonian gauge
4.3 Single-fluid model
4.4 Scales larger than the horizon
4.5 Scales smaller than the Hubble radius
4.6 Two-fluid solutions
4.7 Velocity field
4.8 The redshift distortion
4.9 Baryons, photons, and neutrinos
4.10 The matter power spectrum
4.11 Perturbed photon propagation
4.12 Problems
5 Observational evidence of dark energy
5.1 The age of the Universe
5.2 Supernova observations
5.3 Cosmic Microwave Background
5.4 Baryon acoustic oscillations
5.5 Large-scale structure
5.6 Problems
6 Cosmological constant
6.1 Einstein equations with the cosmological constant
6.2 History of the cosmological constant
6.3 The fine tuning problem
6.4 The coincidence problem
6.5 Supersymmetric models
6.6 Cosmological constant and the anthropic principle
6.7 The decoupling of the cosmological constant from gravity
6.8 Problems
7 Dark energy as a modified form of matter I: Quintessence
7.1 Quintessence
7.2 Dynamical system approach
7.3 Early dark energy
7.4 Quintessence potentials in particle physics
7.5 Reconstruction of quintessence from observations
7.6 Problems
8 Dark energy as a modified form of matter II
8.1 k-essence
8.2 Phantoms
8.3 Coupled dark energy
8.4 Chameleon scalar fields
8.5 Dark energy models with scaling solutions
8.6 Unified models of dark energy and dark matter
8.7 Future singularities
8.8 Problems
9 Dark energy as a modification of gravity
9.1 f(R) gravity
9.2 Scalar-tensor theories
9.3 Gauss-Bonnet dark energy models
9.4 Branewodd models of dark energy
9.5 Problems
10 Cosmic acceleration without dark energy
10.1 Void models
10.2 Backreaction
10.3 Problems
11 Dark energy and linear cosmological perturbations
11.1 Perturbations in a general dark energy cosmology
11.2 Perturbations of a scalar field
11.3 From dark energy to dark force
11.4 A massive dark energy field
11.5 Sound speed of a scalar field
11.6 Perturbations in modified gravity models
11.7 Problems
12 Non-linear cosmological perturbations
12.1 Second-order perturbations
12.2 The bispectrum and the higher-order correction to the power spectrum
12.3 Spherical collapse
12.4 The mass function of collapsed objects
12.5 Dark energy N-body simulations
12.6 Problems
13 Statistical methods in cosmology
13.1 The likelihood function
13.2 Model selection
13.3 Fisher matrix
13.4 The Fisher matrix for the power spectrum
13.5 Principal component analysis
13.6 Problems
14 Future observational constraints on the nature of dark energy
14.1 Dark energy and the CMB
14.2 Large-scale structure
14.3 Growth function
14.4 Cosmic shear
14.5 Cluster abundances and baryon fraction
14.6 Other probes
14.7 Problems
15 Condusion and outlook
16 Answers to the problems
17 Mathematical Appendix
References
Index
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