The Cosmic Microwave Background

edited by c. H. Lineweaver, J. G. Bartlett, A. Blanchard Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France M. Signore Ecole normale superieure, Paris, France and J. Silk Departments of Astronomy and Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, U. S. A. Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht / Boston / London Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division ISBN-13:978-94-010-6512-2 e-ISBN-13:978-94-009-0051-6 DOI:10. 107/ 978-94-009-0051-6 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1997 Dedication We dedicate these proceedings to the people who paid for it: taxpayers of the NATO alliance. Table of Contents PREFACE IX LIST OF PARTICIPANTS XI LISTOF CONTRIBUTORS Xlll I. Introduction, Mathematical Tools and Background An Introduction to CBR Studies: Spectrum, Degree-Scale Fluctuations, Foregrounds and Interferometry R. B. Partridge ElementsofGeneral Relativity, Cosmology and the Cosmic Microwave Background Jose L. Sanz 33 Statisticsand Random Functions in Astrophysics BernhardIT. Jones 67 Structure Formation Joseph Silk III II. eMB Anistropies CalculationofCosmic Background Radiation Anisotropies and Implications Emory F. Bunn 135 The CMB Anistropy Experiments: Cosmic Microwave Background George F. Smoot 185 viii III. CMB Spectrum The CMBR-Spectrum: ATheoretical Introduction Albert Stebbins 241 The CMB Spectrum George F. Smoot 271 IV. Astroparticle Physics Inflation and the Cosmic Background Radiation: What Every Cosmologist Needs to Know Michael S. Turner 309 Primordial Chemistry and Cosmic Background Radiation M. Signori, P. Encrenaz, R. MaoJi, B. Melchiorri, F. Melchiorri and D. Puy 345 The Cosmic Background Radiation and Elementary Particles Pierre Salati 365 V.

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The lectures published in The Cosmic Microwave Background provide graduate students and young researchers with a survey of CMB radiation and an understanding of the latest research in this rapidly growing field. The lectures cover the anisotropy, spectrum and polarization of the CMB from both observational and theoretical viewpoints. The fundamental importance of the CMB is discussed in lectures on general relativity, inflation, structure formation, nucleosynthesis and primordial molecules. There is detailed coverage of statistical and data analysis techniques that are useful in CMB research.

Inhalt
I. Introduction, Mathematical Tools and Background.- An Introduction to CBR Studies: Spectrum, Degree-Scale Fluctuations, Foregrounds and Interferometry.- Elements of General Relativity, Cosmology and the Cosmic Microwave Background.- Statistics and Random Functions in Astrophysics.- Structure Formation.- II. CMB Anistropies.- Calculation of Cosmic Background Radiation Anisotropics and Implications.- The CMB Anistropy Experiments: Cosmic Microwave Background.- III. CMB Spectrum.- The CMBR-Spectrum: A Theoretical Introduction.- The CMB Spectrum.- IV. Astroparticle Physics.- Inflation and the Cosmic Background Radiation: What Every Cosmologist Needs to Know.- Primordial Chemistry and Cosmic Background Radiation.- The Cosmic Background Radiation and Elementary Particles.- V. CMB Polarization.- Polarization of the Microwave Background: Experiments.- Polarization of the Microwave Background: Theoretical Framework.