The Cosmic Microwave Background 2nd Edition by Ruth Durrer ISBN 1316471527 9781316471524

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ISBN 10: 1316471527 
ISBN 13: 9781316471524
Author: Ruth Durrer

The Cosmic Microwave Background 2nd Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Homogeneous and Isotropic Universe

1.1 Homogeneity and Isotropy
1.2 The Background Geometry of the Universe
1.3 Recombination and Decoupling
1.4 Nucleosynthesis
1.5 Inflation

Chapter 2: Perturbation Theory

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Gauge-Invariant Perturbation Variables
2.3 The Perturbation Equations
2.4 Simple Examples
2.5 Light-Like Geodesics and CMB Anisotropies
2.6 Power Spectra
2.7 Sources
2.8 Final Remarks

Chapter 3: Initial Conditions

3.1 Scalar Field Perturbations
3.2 Perturbations of the Scalar Field Action in Unimodular Gauge
3.3 Generation of Perturbations during Inflation
3.4 Non-Gaussianities from Inflation
3.5 Mixture of Dust and Radiation Revisited

Chapter 4: CMB Anisotropies

4.1 Introduction to Kinetic Theory
4.2 The Liouville Equation in a Perturbed FL Universe
4.3 The Energy–Momentum Tensor
4.4 The Ultrarelativistic Limit, the Liouville Equation for Massless Particles
4.5 The Boltzmann Equation
4.6 Silk Damping
4.7 The Full System of Perturbation Equations

Chapter 5: CMB Polarization and the Total Angular Momentum Approach

5.1 The Stokes Parameters and the E-, B-Modes
5.2 The Small-Scale Limit and the Physical Meaning of E and B
5.3 Polarization-dependent Thomson Scattering
5.4 Total Angular Momentum Decomposition
5.5 The Spectra
5.6 The Boltzmann Equation

Chapter 6: Non-Gaussianities

6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Bispectrum in Fourier Space
6.3 The CMB Bispectrum
6.4 Beyond the Bispectrum

Chapter 7: Lensing and the CMB

7.1 An Introduction to Lensing
7.2 The Lensing Power Spectrum
7.3 Lensing of the CMB Temperature Anisotropies
7.4 Lensing of the CMB Polarization
7.5 Non-Gaussianity
7.6 Other Second-Order Effects

Chapter 8: Observations of Large-Scale Structure

8.1 Introduction
8.2 Redshift Space Distortion and Lensing
8.3 The Fully Relativistic Angular Matter Power Spectrum
8.4 The Correlation Function
8.5 Intensity Mapping

Chapter 9: Cosmological Parameter Estimation

9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Physics of Parameter Dependence
9.3 Reionization
9.4 CMB Data
9.5 Statistical Methods
9.6 Degeneracies
9.7 Non-Gaussianity
9.8 Large-Scale Structure Observations
9.9 Complementary Observations

Chapter 10: The Frequency Spectrum of the CMB

10.1 Collisional Processes in the CMB
10.2 A Chemical Potential
10.3 The Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Effect

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