Overview
- Provides a unique perspective on some of the most active areas in astrophysics
- Gives a deep perspective on the Big-Bang theory by Jean-Philippe Uzan
- Includes the detailed description of 3 major experimental breakthroughs
Part of the book series: Progress in Mathematical Physics (PMP, volume 76)
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About this book
This volume provides a detailed description of some of the most active areas in astrophysics from the largest scales probed by the Planck satellite to massive black holes that lie at the heart of galaxies and up to the much awaited but stunning discovery of thousands of exoplanets. It contains the following chapters:
• Jean-Loup PUGET, The Planck Mission and the Cosmic Microwave Background
• Reinhard GENZEL, Massive Black Holes: Evidence, Demographics and Cosmic Evolution
• Arnaud CASSAN, New Worlds Ahead: The Discovery of Exoplanets
Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy’”, alongside Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”. The book corresponds to the twentieth Poincaré Seminar, held on November 21, 2015, at Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris.
Originally written as lectures to a broad scientific audience, these four chapters are of high value and will be of general interest to astrophysicists, physicists, mathematicians and historians.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Universe
Book Subtitle: Poincaré Seminar 2015
Editors: Bertrand Duplantier, Vincent Rivasseau
Series Title: Progress in Mathematical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67392-5
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67391-8Published: 12 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67394-9Published: 12 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67392-5Published: 11 February 2021
Series ISSN: 1544-9998
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 147
Topics: Mathematical Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Astrophysics and Astroparticles