Data Analysis in Cosmology (Lecture Notes in Physics)

By Enrique Martinez Gonzales, Maria-Jesus Pons-Borderia, Enn Saar

Book Overview

Universal Tools.- The Sea of Wavelets.- Fisher Matrices and All That: Experimental Design and Data Compression.- Data Compression, Classification and Parameter Estimation. Methods: Examples from Astronomy.- Statistics of Cosmic Background Radiation.- Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies: The Power Spectrum and Beyond.- Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Analysis.- Diffuse Source Separation in CMB Observations.- Techniques for Compact Source Extraction in CMB Maps.- Determination of Cosmological Parameters from Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies.- Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis: From Time-Ordered Data to Angular Power Spectra.- Statistics of Large-Scale Structure.- The Large-Scale Structure in the Universe: From Power Laws to Acoustic Peaks.- The Cosmic Web: Geometric Analysis.- Power Spectrum Estimation. I. Basics.- Power Spectrum Estiamtion II. Linear Maximum Likelihood.- to Higher Order Spatial Statistics in Cosmology.- Phase Correlations and Topological Measures of Large-Scale Structure.- Multiscale Methods.- Gaussian Fields and Constrained Simulations of the Large-Scale Structure.- Weak Gravitational Lensing.- Mass Reconstruction from Lensing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642063055
• ISBN13: 9783642063053
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 636 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"