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Ripples in the cosmos : a view behind the scenes of the new cosmology

Title: Ripples in the cosmos : a view behind the scenes of the new cosmology / Michael Rowan-Robinson.
Author: Rowan-Robinson, Michael.
Publication: Oxford [England] ; New York : W.H. Freeman Spektrum, ©1993.

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Description

224 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

Rowan-Robinson discusses how galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and even larger structures formed in a universe which was initially of almost perfect uniformity and how the recently detected ripples connect with these developments.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Prologue -- 2. The lure of number -- 3. Thirty years of the new astronomy -- 4. Hubble's law, the cosmological distance ladder and the Big Bang -- 5. The years of building IRAS -- 6. First view of the far infrared sky -- 7. Discovering the power of IRAS -- 8. The microwave background story -- 9. The IRAS dipole and the 'death' of the Great Attractor -- 10. Crisis for cold dark matter? -- 11. From quasars to ultraluminous infrared galaxies -- 12. COBE discovers the cosmic ripples -- 13. The scientific vision.

ISBN

0716745038
9780716745037

LCCN

93001590

OCLC

ocm28016060
28016060
SCSB-8779823

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library