Yu zhou wei bo bei jing fu she zhong zhi wen du yu pian zhen ge xiang bu tong xing

Chan Chi Wang = 宇宙微波背景輻射中之溫度與偏振各向不同性 / 陳志宏.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-98).Text in English; abstracts in English and Chinese.Chan Chi Wang = Yu zhou wei bo bei jing fu she zhong zhi wen du yu pian zhen ge xiang bu tong xing / Chen Zhihong.Chapter 1 --- Overviewing modern cosmology --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Discoveries in Cosmology --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- The Cosmological Model --- p.2Chapter 1.2.1 --- Cosmic Expansion --- p.3Chapter 1.2.2 --- The Metric and Friedmann Cosmology --- p.4Chapter 1.2.3 --- Thermodynamics of Matter and Radiation --- p.7Chapter 1.2.4 --- Timeline of the universe --- p.11Chapter 1.3 --- Formation of CMB and Its Anisotropics --- p.17Chapter 1.3.1 --- CMB --- p.17Chapter 1.3.2 --- CMB anisotropics --- p.18Chapter 1.4 --- Motivation and Thesis Outline --- p.21Chapter 2 --- The Recombination process --- p.23Chapter 2.1 --- The Saha approximation --- p.23Chapter 2.2 --- The Peebles recombination --- p.25Chapter 2.3 --- The RECFAST calculation --- p.28Chapter 3 --- The Boltzmann equations --- p.32Chapter 3.1 --- Boltzmann Equation for Photons --- p.33Chapter 3.1.1 --- Collision Term --- p.36Chapter 3.2 --- Boltzmann Equations for Matter --- p.37Chapter 3.2.1 --- Cold Dark Matter (CDM) --- p.37Chapter 3.2.2 --- Baryons --- p.38Chapter 3.3 --- Summary --- p.40Chapter 4 --- Formalism of CMB Anisotropies Calculation --- p.42Chapter 4.1 --- CMB Temperature Spectrum --- p.42Chapter 4.1.1 --- The Tight-coupling Solution --- p.43Chapter 4.1.2 --- Silk Damping --- p.45Chapter 4.1.3 --- The Free-Streaming Solution for fully decoupled cosmic fluid --- p.45Chapter 4.2 --- CMB Polarization Spectrum --- p.47Chapter 4.2.1 --- The E-mode and B-mode extractions --- p.48Chapter 4.3 --- The CMBFAST code --- p.50Chapter 4.4 --- Dependences on ionization history --- p.51Chapter 4.4.1 --- Recombination history --- p.53Chapter 4.4.2 --- Reionization history --- p.57Chapter 5 --- Softening of Equation of State during Recombination --- p.59Chapter 5.1 --- Recombination Revisited --- p.60Chapter 5.2 --- EOS softening by Recombination --- p.62Chapter 5.3 --- Numerical Results --- p.64Chapter 5.4 --- Summary and Discussions --- p.72Chapter 6 --- Time Varying Fundamental Constants --- p.74Chapter 6.1 --- Background --- p.74Chapter 6.1.1 --- Validity of time-varying fundamental constants --- p.76Chapter 6.1.2 --- The problem of units --- p.77Chapter 6.2 --- Theory --- p.78Chapter 6.3 --- Results --- p.79Chapter 6.3.1 --- Changing the electric charge --- p.80Chapter 6.3.2 --- Changing the electron mass --- p.82Chapter 6.3.3 --- Changing the cosmological constant --- p.85Chapter 6.3.4 --- Changing the speed of light --- p.87Chapter 6.4 --- Some concluding notes --- p.90Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.92Bibliography --- p.9