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Galaxy Formation. (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)
By Malcolm Longair
Springer | ISBN: 3540734775 | 2nd Edition2008 | PDF | 960 pages | 14 mb

Accounting for the enormous and amazing development cosmology has made in the past ten years, this long awaited second edition of Malcolm Longair's highly appreciated textbook has been extensively and thoroughly updated.
It tells the story of modern astrophysical cosmology from the perspective of one of its most important and fundamental problems ?how did the galaxies come about? Longair uses this approach to introduce the whole of what may be called "classical cosmology". Moreover he describes how the study of the origin of galaxies and larger-scale structures in the Universe has provided us with unique and direct information about the physics of the very early Universe.
The material is presented in an informal pedagogical manner. This includes a comprehensive introduction to relativistic astrophysics needed for the clarification of cosmological ideas.

Part I Preliminaries
1 A Brief History of Cosmology and Galaxy Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3 Galaxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4 Clusters of Galaxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Part II The Basic Framework
5 The Theoretical Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
6 An Introduction to Relativistic Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
7 The FriedmanWorld Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
8 The Determination of Cosmological Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
9 The Thermal History of the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
10 Nucleosynthesis in the Early Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Part III The Development of Primordial Fluctuations Under Gravity
11 The Evolution of Perturbations in the Standard Big Bang . . . . . . . . . . . 311
12 More Tools and Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
13 Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
14 Correlation Functions and the Spectrum of the Initial Fluctuations . . 385
15 Fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation . . . . . . 421

Part IV The Post-Recombination Universe
16 The Post-Recombination Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
17 The Evolution of Galaxies and Active Galaxies with Cosmic Epoch . . 491
18 The Intergalactic Medium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
19 Making Real Galaxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
20 The Very Early Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
Name Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701