Osmic Flows 1999
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Cosmic Flows 1999
Annotation Sixty-Nine papers and panel discussion summaries from the eponymously named July 1999 conference explore such topics in the field of astrophysics as the convergence depth of the local peculiar velocity field, project description of the Nearby Early-type Galaxies Survey (ENEAR), peculiar velocities from type Ia supernovae, calibration of the Tully-Fisher relations and the value of the Hubble constant, x- ray clusters and the search for cosmic flows, Eigenmode analysis of radial velocities, and generalizing the inverse redshift-space operator. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Data Analysis in Cosmology
The amount of cosmological data has dramatically increased in the past decades due to an unprecedented development of telescopes, detectors and satellites. Efficiently handling and analysing new data of the order of terabytes per day requires not only computer power to be processed but also the development of sophisticated algorithms and pipelines. Aiming at students and researchers the lecture notes in this volume explain in pedagogical manner the best techniques used to extract information from cosmological data, as well as reliable methods that should help us improve our view of the universe.
The Cosmic Microwave Background
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