This is a textbook for graduate students in astrophysics. The author is extremely well known not only as an astrophysicist but also as a writer of superb talent. The presentation is clear and the book should become a favourite text for students. It deals with the matter and radiation content of the universe, and the formation of galaxies, and it gives a comprehensive introduction to relativistic astrophysics as needed for the clarification of cosmological ideas.
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"This book is yet another example of the author's oustanding expository skills and deserves to be hailed as a brilliant and up-to-date account of current understanding in the field of cosmology and galaxy formation."
The Observatory, 1999
„…Despite its title, the book actually covers pretty much all of extragalactic astronomy and cosmology…offers one of the most comprehensive descriptions of the topic, in particular where observational data are concerned….Longair never fails to place the results within the big picture…Besides completeness, it is also the most up-to-date textbook. Even very recent developments are included,....I very much enjoyed reading this book, and I am sure I will make use of it the next time I teach a cosmology graduate course, as both a textbook for the students and a guide in preparing my lectures."
Physics Today, September 1999
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This second edition of Galaxy Formation is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology, expounding the structure of the classical cosmological models from a contemporary viewpoint. This forms the background to a detailed study of the origin of structure and galaxies in the Universe. The derivations of many of the most important results are derived by simple physical arguments which illuminate the results of more advanced treatments. A very wide range of observational data is brought to bear upon these problems, including the most recent results from WMAP, the Hubble Space Telescope, galaxy surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, studies of Type 1a supernovae, and many other observations.
--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Best single volume text for galaxy formation and the formation of structure,
By Utah Blaine (Somewhere on Trexalon in District 268) - See all my reviews
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This is an oustanding text on the physics of the formation of structure in the Universe. It is written at the level of a beginning graduate student in physics or astronomy, and will provide sufficient background for the student to begin serious research in this area. The text is well written and the topics well chosen. It was written in 1998, so it is already a bit dated (it obviously contains nothing about the most recent advances in dark energy), but all the basics are here. This explains what we know and what we don't know about how and why clusters and galaxies form, dark matter, and the Big Bang.
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The book is very detailed and covers a wide range in galaxy formation. It explains astrophysical processes very clearly and can be recommended for students.
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This is a great text book summarizing cosmology, structure and galaxy formation.
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Big Bang, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Hubble Deep Field, Hubble Space Telescope, Einstein-de Sitter, Grand Unified Theories, Hell Lyman-a, Dark Ages, General Theory of Relativity, Fred Hoyle, Intermediate Angular Scales, Keck Telescope, Large Magellanic Cloud, Andrew Blain, Andromeda Nebula, Las Campanas Redshift Survey, Milky Way, Monte Carlo, Sachs Wolfe, The Realm of the Nebulae, The Route, Very Large Array New!
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Big Bang, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Hubble Deep Field, Hubble Space Telescope, Einstein-de Sitter, Grand Unified Theories, Hell Lyman-a, Dark Ages, General Theory of Relativity, Fred Hoyle, Intermediate Angular Scales, Keck Telescope, Large Magellanic Cloud, Andrew Blain, Andromeda Nebula, Las Campanas Redshift Survey, Milky Way, Monte Carlo, Sachs Wolfe, The Realm of the Nebulae, The Route, Very Large Array New!
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- The Early Universe (Frontiers in Physics) by Edward Kolb on 12 pages
- Physics of the Early Universe: Proceedings of the Thirty Sixth Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, Edinburgh, July 24 - August 11 1989 (Scottish Graduate Series) by J.A Peacock on 7 pages
- Critical Dialogues in Cosmology by Neil Turok on 6 pages
- High Energy Astrophysics: Volume 1, Particles, Photons and their Detection by Malcolm S. Longair on 6 pages
- The Realm of the Nebulae (The Silliman Memorial Lectures Series) by Edwin Hubble on 5 pages
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- Galaxies in the Universe: An Introduction by Linda S. Sparke on page 279, page 316, and Back Matter
- The Cold Universe: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 32, 2002. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (Saas-Fee Advanced Courses) by Andrew W. Blain in Front Matter, and page 101
- Theoretical Concepts in Physics: An Alternative View of Theoretical Reasoning in Physics by Malcolm S. Longair on page 201, and page 543
- Galaxy Formation and Evolution (Springer Praxis Books / Astronomy and Planetary Sciences) by Hyron Spinrad on page 34, and page 109
- Clusters of Galaxies (Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series) by W. Oegerle on page 354
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