دانلود کتاب The Farthest Things in the Universe

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Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Measuring distances in the Universe......Page 11
The expansion of the Universe......Page 18
Hubble's law and the age of the Universe......Page 21
Far away in the Universe......Page 22
New techniques and instrumentation......Page 25
New technology telescopes......Page 27
Telescopes in space......Page 32
CHAPTER TWO - The cosmic background radiation......Page 35
How far is far?......Page 36
How do we measure distances?......Page 38
How do distance and age relate?......Page 43
What physical conditions characterize the very young universe?......Page 44
What do we expect to see?......Page 47
What do we see?......Page 50
How do we see it?......Page 59
How do we make these observations credible, and how do they relate to other observations?......Page 62
What happened before the Big Bang and what is at distances far greater than the Hubble distance?......Page 64
Epilogue......Page 65
CHAPTER THREE - Quasars......Page 67
Discovering quasars......Page 68
Quasars as extraordinary objects......Page 69
Quasars as probes of the Universe......Page 71
The evolution of quasars......Page 72
Finding distant quasars......Page 75
The space density of distant quasars......Page 81
CHAPTER FOUR - Galaxies at the limit: the epoch of galaxy formation......Page 87
Observing distant galaxies......Page 88
Modern methods for faint radio galaxy observation......Page 90
More on the most-distant galaxies......Page 94
Photometric evolutionary models of galaxies......Page 101
Extrinsic intervening matter -- modulation of the distant galaxy spectrum......Page 103
Cosmology with distant radio galaxies in the near infrared......Page 104
References and related reading......Page 107
Index......Page 111