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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2010
      October 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511657405
      9780521769143
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 256 Pages
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    As the structures in our Universe are mapped out on ever larger scales, and with increasing detail, the use of inhomogeneous models is becoming an essential tool for analyzing and understanding them. This book reviews a number of important developments in the application of inhomogeneous solutions of Einstein's field equations to cosmology. It shows how inhomogeneous models can be employed to study the evolution of structures such as galaxy clusters and galaxies with central black holes, and to account for cosmological observations like supernovae dimming, the cosmic microwave background, baryon acoustic oscillations or the dependence of the Hubble parameter on redshift within classical general relativity. Whatever `dark matter' and `dark energy' turn out to be, inhomogeneities exist on many scales and need to be investigated with all appropriate methods. This book is of great value to all astrophysicists and researchers working in cosmology, from graduate students to academic researchers.

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    ' … it is … a necessary book, written from a general relativity point of view to study cosmological models … the book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in the fields of cosmology and relativistic astrophysics.'

    Source: General Relativity and Gravitation Journal

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