Galaxy Formation

Part I Preliminaries.- A Very Brief History of Cosmology and Galaxy Formation.- The Large Scale Structure of the Universe.- Galaxies.- Clusters of Galaxies.- Part II The Basic Framework.- The Theoretical Framework.- An Introduction to Relativistic Gravity.- The Friedman World Models.- The Determination of Cosmological Parameters.- The Thermal History of the Universe.- Nucleosynthesis in the Early Universe.- Part III The Development of Primordial Fluctuations under Gravity.- The Evolution of Density Perturbations in the Standard Big Bang.- More Tools and Problems.- Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation.- Correlation Functions and the Spectrum of the Initial Fluctuations.- The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.- The Post-Recombination Era.- The Evolution of Galaxies and Active Galaxies with Cosmic Epoch.- The Intergalactic Medium.- Making Real Galaxies.- The Very Early Universe.

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• Física relativística
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• Galáxias e estrelas
• Astrofísica

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