Cheung Kai Chung Mars = 宇宙學中的題目 / 張啓聰. / Thesis submitted in: September 2005. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-95). / Text in English; abstracts in English and Chinese. / Cheung Kai Chung Mars = Yu zhou xue zhong de ti mu / Zhang Qicong. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- "Hubble's Law, the cosmic scale factor and redshift" --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- The Big Bang Model and Cosmic Microwave Background --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- An overview of the universe --- p.4 / Chapter 1.4 --- Current Observation Results and Motivation --- p.6 / Chapter 1.5 --- Review of CMB calculation --- p.7 / Chapter 1.5.1 --- Friedmann Cosmologies --- p.8 / Chapter 1.5.2 --- The Perturbed Robertson-Walker Metric --- p.10 / Chapter 1.5.3 --- Boltzmann Equations --- p.13 / Chapter 1.5.4 --- Perturbative Einstein Equations --- p.16 / Chapter 2 --- Ionization History of The Universe --- p.18 / Chapter 2.1 --- Saha equation --- p.18 / Chapter 2.2 --- Peebles recombination --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3 --- RECFAST --- p.20 / Chapter 3 --- CMB Anisotropics --- p.22 / Chapter 3.1 --- The CMBA spectra --- p.23 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Tight Coupling Limit --- p.23 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Free Streaming --- p.25 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- The Anisotropy Spectrum --- p.27 / Chapter 3.1.4 --- CMBFAST --- p.28 / Chapter 4 --- Variation of Fundamental Constant and CMBA spectra --- p.30 / Chapter 4.1 --- The problem of units --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2 --- Modification of CMBFAST and conversion of units --- p.32 / Chapter 4.3 --- The constraints of varying constants using CMBA spectra --- p.35 / Chapter 4.4 --- Physics involved and variation of the spectra --- p.36 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Effect of Recombination --- p.36 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Variation of hP --- p.38 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Variations of e and me --- p.41 / Chapter 4.4.4 --- Variations of g and c --- p.48 / Chapter 4.4.5 --- Constraints on the constants --- p.57 / Chapter 5 --- MCMC and CMBA Spectra --- p.59 / Chapter 5.1 --- Method --- p.60 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Algorithm --- p.60 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Check of Convergency --- p.61 / Chapter 5.2 --- Likelihood function --- p.62 / Chapter 5.3 --- Results --- p.66 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- MCMC investigation of varying α in the temperature spectrum --- p.67 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- MCMC investigation of varying α in the polarization spectrum --- p.69 / Chapter 5.3.3 --- MCMC investigation of varying α and cosmological parameters --- p.71 / Chapter 5.3.4 --- Summary --- p.73 / Chapter 6 --- Extra Dimensions and Cosmology --- p.74 / Chapter 6.1 --- A review of KK cosmology --- p.74 / Chapter 6.2 --- Non-flat extra dimension universe --- p.80 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Close Extra Dimensions and Flat Usual Dimensions --- p.83 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Open Extra Dimensions and Flat Usual Dimensions --- p.87 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Summary: Possibility of Extra Dimension(s) --- p.91 / Bibliography --- p.93
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_325554 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Contributors | Cheung, Kai Chung Mars., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Physics. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, viii, 95 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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