Cosmic Microwave

by Guido Walter Pettinari (Author)
Presents and explains cutting edge research in the very active field of cosmic microwave background studies
Quantifies the observational power of the CMB bispectrum to constrain the physics of the early Universe
Provides information which will be relevant for the design of future space and ground-based cosmology experiments
Winner of the Michael Penston Prize for 2014 given by the Royal Astronomical Society for the best doctoral thesis in Astronomy or Astrophysics

The cosmic microwave background radiation is the afterglow of the big bang: a tenuous signal, more than 13 billion years old, which carries the answers to many of the questions about the nature of our Universe. It was serendipitously discovered in 1964, and thoroughly investigated in the last four decades by a large number of experiments. Two Nobel Prizes in Physics have already been awarded for research on the cosmic background radiation: one in 1978 to Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who first discovered it, the other in 2006, to George Smoot and John Mather, for the results of the COBE satellite.

The goal of the Daniel Chalonge School on Astrofundamental Physics is to contribute to a theory of the universe (and particularly of the early universe) up to the marks, and at the scientific height of, the unprecedented accuracy, existent and expected, in the observational data. The impressive development of modern cosmology during the last decades is to a large extent due to its unification with elementary particle physics and quantum field theory.

Editors: Fabris, J.C., Piatella, O., Rodrigues, D.C., Velten, H.E.S., Zimdahl, W. (Eds.)