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Title

The Deep universe : Saas-Fee Advanced Course 23, lecture notes 1993, Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy / A.R. Sandage, R.G. Kron, M.S. Longair ; edited by B. Binggeli and R. Buser.

Author

Sandage, A. R.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Kron, R. G.
• Longair, Malcolm S., 1941-
• Binggeli, B.
• Buser, R.
• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Astrophysik und Astronomie.
• Saas-Fee Advanced Course (23rd : 1993 : Les Diablerets, Switzerland)

Description

iv, 526 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Saas-Fee advanced course 23 lecture notes ; 1993

Uniform Title

Saas-Fee advanced course ... lecture notes ; 1993.

Subjects

• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Astrophysik und Astronomie
• Cosmology > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Practical Cosmology: Inventing the Past / Allan Sandage. 1. Introduction to the Standard Model. 2. The First Test: The Count - Magnitude Relation: Theory and Practice I (The Early Phase 1920-1938). 3. The Count - Magnitude Relation: Theory and Practice II (The Modern Attempts). 4. The Second Test: Angular Size = [actual symbol not reproducible]. 5. The Third Test: The Redshift-Distance Relation Based on the [actual symbol not reproducible] Hubble Diagram. 6. Is the Expansion Real? 7. The Fourth Test: Timing (Age of the Galaxy). 8. Timing Test Continued (The Hubble Constant). 9. The Hubble Constant from Type Ia Supernovae. 10. Observational Selection Bias -- Evolution in the Galaxy Population / Richard G. Kron. 1. Foundations of Galaxy Evolution Models. 2. Evolutionary Synthesis Models. 3. Basic Statistics of Galaxies. 4. Computing Models for Faint-Galaxy Samples. 5. Distant Galaxy Observations in the Real World. 6. Galaxy Profiles at High Redshift.
• 7. Reconciling Counts with the Redshift Distribution. 8. The Butcher-Oemler Effect - A Case Study. 9. Deep-Universe Programs for the Future -- The Physics of Background Radiation / Malcolm S. Longair. 1. Observations of the Extragalactic Background Radiation. 2. The Robertson-Walker Metric. 3. World Models. 4. Number Counts and the Background Radiation. 5. The Origin of the X-ray and Gamma-ray Backgrounds. 6. A Brief Thermal History of the Universe. 7. The Origin of the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe. 8. Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation. 9. Fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. 10. The Intergalactic Gas. 11. Galaxy Formation and the Background Radiation.

ISBN

3540589139 (Berlin)

OCLC

ocm32864661

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