312 Pages
by
CRC Press
312 Pages
by
CRC Press
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In recent years an enormous amount of cosmological data has come from well known projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE). This book explains and makes sense of this vast array of new observational data in terms of its impact on current cosmological models. With new theories and a plethora of data feeding cosmology in the 1990s, Gregory Bothun... Read more
1. Cosmological Model Building 2. The Extragalactic Distance Scale 3. Structure of the Universe 4. Galaxies, Clusters, Superclusters, Walls and Voids 5. Dark Matter in the Universe 6. Structure Formation Scenarios and Observational Constraints 7. The Distribution of Baryons in the Universe 8. Concluding Remarks and Future Prospects.
Biography
Gregory Bothun (Author)
