The Early universe
Dec, 199632 pages
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- ASP Conf.Ser. 126 (1997) 31
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- astro-ph/9612093 [astro-ph]
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- SUSSEX-AST-96-12-1
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An introductory account is given of the modern understanding of the physics of the early Universe. Particular emphasis is placed on the paradigm of cosmological inflation, which postulates a period of accelerated expansion during the Universe's earliest stages. Inflation provides a possible origin for structure in the Universe, such as microwave background anisotropies, galaxies and galaxy clusters; these observed structures can therefore be used to test models of inflation. A brief account is given of other early Universe topics, namely baryogenesis, topological defects, dark matter candidates and primordial black holes.- talk: Casablanca 1996/12/01
- astrophysics: model
- inflationary universe
- cosmic radiation: background
- cosmic radiation: anisotropy
- density: perturbation
- gravitational radiation
- baryon: production
- topology: defect
- astrophysics: missing-mass
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