Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The homogeneous and isotropic universe
- 2 Perturbation theory
- 3 Initial conditions
- 4 CMB anisotropies
- 5 CMB polarization and the total angular momentum approach
- 6 Cosmological parameter estimation
- 7 Lensing and the CMB
- 8 The CMB spectrum
- Appendix 1 Fundamental constants, units and relations
- Appendix 2 General relativity
- Appendix 3 Perturbations
- Appendix 4 Special functions
- Appendix 5 Entropy production and heat flux
- Appendix 6 Mixtures
- Appendix 7 Statistical utensils
- Appendix 8 Approximation for the tensor Cℓ spectrum
- Appendix 9 Boltzmann equation in a universe with curvature
- Appendix 10 The solutions of some exercises
- References
- Index
Appendix 6 - Mixtures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The homogeneous and isotropic universe
- 2 Perturbation theory
- 3 Initial conditions
- 4 CMB anisotropies
- 5 CMB polarization and the total angular momentum approach
- 6 Cosmological parameter estimation
- 7 Lensing and the CMB
- 8 The CMB spectrum
- Appendix 1 Fundamental constants, units and relations
- Appendix 2 General relativity
- Appendix 3 Perturbations
- Appendix 4 Special functions
- Appendix 5 Entropy production and heat flux
- Appendix 6 Mixtures
- Appendix 7 Statistical utensils
- Appendix 8 Approximation for the tensor Cℓ spectrum
- Appendix 9 Boltzmann equation in a universe with curvature
- Appendix 10 The solutions of some exercises
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Cosmic Microwave Background , pp. 362 - 363Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008