How did the first stars and galaxies form?
By: Abraham Loeb
Series: Princeton frontiers in physics; Princeton frontiers in physics
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J; Woodstock
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780691145150; 9780691145167
Subjects: Formation; Galaxies; Stars; Cosmology
Description: Abraham Loeb starts from first principles, tracing the theoretical foundations of cosmology and carefully explaining the physics behind them. Topics include the gravitational growth of perturbations in an expanding universe, the abundance and properties of dark matter halos and galaxies, reionization, the observational methods used to detect the earliest galaxies and probe the diffuse gas between them--and much more.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: the big picture; title: Standard cosmological model; title: The first gas clouds; title: The first stars and black holes; title: The reionization of cosmic hydrogen by the first galaxies; title: Observing the first galaxies; title: Imagining the diffuse fog of cosmic hydrogen; title: Epilogue: from our galaxy's past to its future.