Large-scale Motions in the Universe
Title | Large-scale Motions in the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Vera C. Rubin |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Astrophysics |
ISBN |
Large Scale Structure and Motions in the Universe
Title | Large Scale Structure and Motions in the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Marino Mezzetti |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 489 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9400909039 |
The 1980's have been times of great excitement in Astrophysics and Cosmology. Professors Dennis Sciama and Fabio Mardirossian and all the other Members of the Organizing Committees are to be congratulated for having given us a taste of this excitement in Trieste, by inviting the leaders of the subject to the meeting they have organized. The excitement has corne from the new observations of the three-dimensional structure of the universe through a large number of new measurements of redshifts. These have revealed that clusters of galaxies are distributed on the surface of big empty bubbles of diameters of the order of 20-50 Mpc. Additionally, there is some evidence for invisible dark matter (whose composition is not known) as well as evidence for the gravitational lens effect. To cap this has corne the supernova of 1987, an event which last occurred 383 years ago. For the first time in history, the neutrino flux from the supernova was measured, giving limits to neutrino masses and numbers of neutrino types. (The dark matter problem is related to Particle Physics - beyond this standard model). It is good to be alive when all this happens and to try to comprehend this. Once again, our appreciation to the organisers and to those who presented their beautiful results.
Large-scale Motions in the Universe
Title | Large-scale Motions in the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Ivan Suhhonenko |
Publisher | |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789985567166 |
Large-scale Motions in the Universe
Title | Large-scale Motions in the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Vera C. Rubin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 604 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780691085258 |
This book brings together the thinking of twenty-two eminent astronomers on a fascinating topic of contemporary astrophysics: large-scale galaxy motions. Stars group into galaxies, galaxies unite into clusters, clusters merge into superclusters, and superclusters meet at intersections of filaments to define voids and supercluster complexes. Can gravity alone, arising from this irregular mass distribution, produce the motions which observers detect? In this collection, astronomers discuss evidence for irregular clumping of galaxies throughout the observed universe, determination of galaxy peculiar motions, and predictions from theories of the early universe relating to small-scale fluctuations in the microwave background radiation, the lumpy matter distribution, and large motions. This book can serve as a companion volume to The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe by P.J.E. Peebles (Princeton, 1980). Authors of chapters in the book include N. A. Bahcall, J. R. Bond, D. Burstein, M. Davis, A. Dekel, G. Efstathiou, S. M. Faber, M. Geller, M. P. Haynes, J. P. Huchra, N. Kaiser, D. C. Koo, A. N. Lasenby, D. Lynden-Bell, J. Mould, P.J.E. Peebles, V. C. Rubin, A. Szalay, R. B. Tully, N. Vittorio, and A. Yahil.
Large-scale Structures and Peculiar Motions in the Universe
Title | Large-scale Structures and Peculiar Motions in the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | David W. Latham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Astrophysics |
ISBN | 9789377073411 |
Large-scale Structures and Peculiar Motions in the Universe
Title | Large-scale Structures and Peculiar Motions in the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | David W. Latham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Large-scale Peculiar Motions: Matter In Motion
Title | Large-scale Peculiar Motions: Matter In Motion PDF eBook |
Author | Gary A Wegner |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2021-11-24 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9811211825 |
All matter, including galaxy clusters, galaxies, and their constituents follow orbits and flows driven by the net attraction of near and distant masses. The book presents the development of studies of peculiar motions along with discoveries in large-scale structure, the cosmic microwave background, baryonic oscillations, gravity waves, and their relation to current work on gravitation and dark matter.The results of peculiar motion measurements in the late 20th century are described as they were used to search for the dipole of the galaxy motions, a determination of cosmic density, and to compare with the cosmic microwave dipole, which led to the discovery of galactic flows and the Great Attractor. Newer detailed measurements from surveys in the 21st century have helped resolve the nature of these structures. Some prospects for future investigations are discussed.