The cosmic microwave background [electronic resource] : how it changed our understanding of the universe / Rhodri Evans.
2015
QB991.C64
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Title
The cosmic microwave background [electronic resource] : how it changed our understanding of the universe / Rhodri Evans.
Author
Evans, Rhodri, author.
ISBN
9783319099286 electronic book
3319099280 electronic book
9783319099279
3319099280 electronic book
9783319099279
Published
Cham ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Dordrecht ; London : Springer, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-09928-6 doi
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QB991.C64
Dewey Decimal Classification
523.1
Summary
Rhodri Evans tells the story of what we know about the universe, from Jacobus Kapteyn?s Island universe at the turn of the 20th Century, and the discovery by Hubble that the nebulae were external to our own galaxy, through Gamow?s early work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and its subsequent discovery by Penzias and Wilson, to modern day satellite-lead CMB research. Research results from the ground-based experiments DASI, BOOMERANG, and satellite missions COBE, WMAP and Planck are explained and interpreted to show how our current picture of the universe was arrived at, and the author looks at the future of CMB research and what we still need to learn. This account is enlivened by Dr Rhodri Evans' personal connections to the characters and places in the story.
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Astronomers' universe.
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Cosmic microwave background
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Table of Contents
From Kapteyn to Hubble
George Gamow, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman
Penzias and Wilson and Dicke et al
COBE
DASI and BOOMERANG and other ground-based experiments
WMAP
Planck
The Future.
George Gamow, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman
Penzias and Wilson and Dicke et al
COBE
DASI and BOOMERANG and other ground-based experiments
WMAP
Planck
The Future.