61. Astrophysics Notes Course Outline for PHYS4901 Special Topics Stellar Astrophysics and Cosmology. This starts with the observational evidence for the bigbang and http://www.physics.carleton.ca/~watson/LinR_course/Astro_physics_intro.html

Course Outline for PHYS4901: Special Topics: Stellar Astrophysics and Cosmology. For starters, bookmark your browser to show you the astronomy picture of the day (APOD) website. (or click below) I can't think of a better inspiration to do a course in astrophysics! Course Calendar to be added PdF files for notes to be added Schedule: The course will be offered as a reading course during the fall term, (i.e. Sept-Dec. 2005). However, to maximise the flexibility for students, I will provide a complete set of assignments in Sept. Outline: The course will consist of two almost unrelated topics, which probably represent the most interesting aspects of current research: stellar astrophysics and cosmology. In both cases, the real interest is the link between small scale physics (i.e. particle physics) and the large scale. Stellar Structure and evolution: The main point of this part of the course is to get a quantitative understanding of the various stages in a star’s life, including protostars, main sequence and endpoints. General Relativity and Cosmology This starts with the observational evidence for the big-bang and discusses it in the context of a non-relativistic model. The final part is an introduction to general relativity using heuristic methods to derive the important results for cosmology. it will end up with a discussion of dark matter and dark energy

62. ``Big Bang" For NASA's Buck: Nearly Three Years Of EUVE Mission Operations At UC Title ``big bang for NASA s Buck Nearly Three Years of EUVE Mission for EUV Astrophysics, UC, Berkeley), AB(Center for EUV Astrophysics, UC, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999AAS...195.8205S

Smithsonian/NASA ADS Astronomy/Planetary Abstract Service Find Similar Abstracts (with default settings below Also-Read Articles Translate Abstract Title: ``Big Bang" for NASA's Buck: Nearly Three Years of EUVE Mission Operations at UCB Authors: Stroozas, B. A. Nevitt, R. McDonald, K. E. Cullison, J. ... Malina, R. F. Affiliation: AA(Center for EUV Astrophysics, UC, Berkeley), AB(Center for EUV Astrophysics, UC, Berkeley), AC(Center for EUV Astrophysics, UC, Berkeley), AD(Center for EUV Astrophysics, UC, Berkeley), AE(Center for EUV Astrophysics, UC, Berkeley) Journal: American Astronomical Society, 195th AAS Meeting, #82.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.1495 Publication Date: Origin: AAS (c) 1999: American Astronomical Society Bibliographic Code: Abstract Bibtex entry for this abstract Preferred format for this abstract (see Preferences) Find Similar Abstracts: Use: Authors Title Abstract Text Return: Query Results Return items starting with number Query Form Database: Astronomy/Planetary Instrumentation Physics/Geophysics arXiv e-prints Smithsonian/NASA ADS Homepage ADS Sitemap Query Form Preferences ... FAQ

63. 1997 Journal Of Astrophysics And Astronomy Special issue big bang and Alternative Cosmologies A Critical Appraisal Constraints on big bang Models from Structure Formation T. Padmanabhan http://www.ias.ac.in/j_archive/jaa/18/vol18contents.html

Back Issue Contents Volume 18, Number 1, June 1997 A. Blaauw To Victor Ambartsumian on His 80th Birthday S. Chandrasekhar Power Spectrum Analysis of the Timing Notes in 18 Southern Pulsars Massive Compact Dwarf Stars and C-field Gravitational Potential Energy of Interpenetrating Spherical Galaxies in Hernquist's Model Chromospheric Evolution and the Flare Activity of Super-Active Region NOAA 6555 On the Role of Nonthermal Electrons in EUV and X-ray Line Emissions from Solar Flares Ejections of Population III Objects Seen as Blueshifted QSOs Inverse Compton Scattering Revisited T. Padmanabhan On the Polarisation and Emission Geometry of Pulsar 1929+10: Does its Emission Come from a Single Pole or Two Poles? Intergalactic UV Background Radiation Field H a Emission from Late Type Be Stars The effective technique of the charged particles background discrimination in the atmospheric Cherenkov light detectors Radial Velocities and DDO BV Volume 18, Number 4, 1997 Special issue Big Bang and Alternative Cosmologies: A Critical Appraisal Preface C. N. R. Rao

64. Astronomy And Astrophysics In The New Millennium The current survey, authored by the Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, During the first billion years after the big bang, galaxies and galaxy http://www.nas.edu/bpa2/tier2text/astronomy.htm

Astronomy And Astrophysics In The New Millennium Astronomers Explore The Universe Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium is the most recent in a series of surveys of the field conducted once every 10 years by committees of leading astronomers. The current survey, authored by the Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, provides recommendations for a research program for the decade that addresses the key scientific questions confronting astronomers and astrophysicists today. The explosion of knowledge in recent years, made possible by current facilities, has in turn raised a wealth of intriguing new questions about the universe and its constituent galaxies, stars, and planets. To answer them, astronomers will need a diverse array of increasingly capable 21st-century tools. Current challenges in astronomy and astrophysics, and the research initiatives that the survey report recommends to address them (see high-priority projects in astronomy and astrophysics), are the subject of this web site. One cannot, of course, predict what astronomers will tell us in the year 3000 A.D., or even in 2100 A.D. For the foreseeable future of the next few decades, we can, however, summarize the defining issues for astronomy and astrophysics by posing five fundamental questions:

65. Cosmological Applications Of STM Theory The Structure of the big bang from HigherDimensional Embeddings The big-bang as a Higher-Dimensional Shockwave , Astronomy Astrophysics, 358425. http://astro.uwaterloo.ca/~wesson/publications/cosmo.htm

T. Liko and P.S. Wesson (2003). "The Big Bang as a Phase Transition," [ gr-qc/0320067 B. Wang, H. Liu and L. Xu (2003). "Accelerating Universe in a Big-Bounce Model." [ gr-qc/0304093 L. Xu, H. Liu and B. Wang (2003). "Big-Bounce Singularity of a Simple 5D Cosmological Model," Chinese Physics Letters gr-qc/0304049 P. Halpern (2003). "The Mixmaster Universe in Five Dimensions," General Relativity and Gravitation gr-qc/0207056 P. Halpern (2002). "Exact Solutions of Five-Dimensional Anisotropic Cosmologies," Physical Review gr-qc/0203055 S. S. Seahra and P. S. Wesson (2002). "The Structure of the Big Bang from Higher-Dimensional Embeddings", Classical and Quantum Gravity gr-qc/0202010 P. S. Wesson and S. S. Seahra (2001). "Images of the Big Bang", Astrophysical Journal P. Halpern (2001). "The Behaviour of Kasner Cosmologies With Induced Matter", Physical Review D gr-qc/0010090 H. Liu and P. S. Wesson (2001). "Universe Models With a Variable Cosmological 'Constant' and a 'Big Bounce'"

66. Documents For An Access Point 4, Barry Parker, Vindication of the big bang Breakthroughs and barriers Title, big bang and other explosions in nuclear and practicle astrophysics http://libibm.iucaa.ernet.in/slim/wslxRSLT.php?A1=3161

67. Sounds Of The Universe Confirm Big Bang: Science News Online, April 28, 2001 the relic radiation from the big bang, have confirmed the basic model of how Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics 5640 South Ellis Avenue http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20010428/fob3ref.asp

Science News Books. Subscribe to Science News ... Science News for Kids Math Trek Temple Circles Food for Thought Germ-killing plastic wrap Science Safari Sky Cycles TimeLine 70 Years Ago in Science News Science News e-LETTER. ... Week of April 28, 2001; Vol. 159, No. 17 Sounds of the universe confirm Big Bang Ron Cowen Two experiments examining the detailed structure of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the Big Bang, have confirmed the basic model of how cosmologists believe the universe evolved. Further Readings: Cowen, R. 2000. More evidence of a flat universe. Science News 157(June 3):363. . 2000. Balloon sounds out early universe. Science News 157(April 29):276. Available at http://www.sciencenews.org/20000429/fob1.asp Masi, S.,. . .and J. Ruhl. In press. High latitude galactic dust emission in the BOOMERanG maps. Astrophysical Journal Sources: John E. Carlstrom University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics 5640 South Ellis Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Wayne Hu Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637

68. Big Bang Confirmed: Seeing Twists And Turns Of Primordial Light: Science News On Sounds of the universe confirm big bang. Science News 159(April 28)261. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics 5640 South Ellis Avenue http://www.sciencenews.org/20020928/fob1.asp

Science News Books. Subscribe to Science News ... Science News for Kids Math Trek Stepping Beyond Fibonacci Numbers Food for Thought State of U.S. Agro-ecosystems Science Safari Fungus of the Month TimeLine 70 Years Ago in Science News Science News e-LETTER. ... Week of Sept. 28, 2002; Vol. 162, No. 13 , p. 195 Big Bang Confirmed: Seeing twists and turns of primordial light Ron Cowen The latest observations of the cosmic microwave background, the faint glow left over from the Big Bang, are giving cosmologists quite a turn. PRIMORDIAL MAP. The intensity and polarization of the cosmic-microwave-background radiation recorded by the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer. Among the tiny variations in temperature, yellow is hottest and red is coldest. Each black line's length represents strength of polarization at a location; its orientation reflects direction. DASI Collaboration Revealing for the first time that microwave-background photons from adjacent patches of the sky vibrate in slightly different directions, the discovery confirms that by studying that background "we really are observing the universe as it was about 300,000 years after the Big Bang," says theorist Wayne Hu of the University of Chicago. The finding verifies that just about everything astronomers thought they understood about the early universe and the emergence of galaxies is likely to be true, he adds. Had astronomers not detected the polarization, "we would have had to go back to the drawing board" regarding our theories about the universe, says John E. Carlstrom of the University of Chicago. He led the new study of the cosmic microwave background and announced the results last week at the Cosmo-02 meeting in Chicago.

69. Physical Sciences in the universe and other puzzles in nuclear astrophysics. The standard big bang model, which assumes that matter was uniformly distributed in the early http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev29-12/text/physical.htm

Physical Sciences Probing the Evolution of Stars First Moments of Big Bang CERN Results and Colliders Superdeformed Light Nuclei ... Isotope Signatures in Earth's Fluids RNL physicists in the Physics Division investigate fundamental properties of matter at the atomic, nuclear, and subnuclear level. They develop experimental devices in support of studies in atomic, nuclear, and high-energy physics. The Physics Division operates four experimental facilities: the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator, used to measure neutron cross sections to help resolve issues in nuclear astrophysics; the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF) , which is being prepared for the first experiments using radioactive ion beams later this year; the EN-Tandem Accelerator, and the recently upgraded Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source Facility. The latter two are operated in support of the atomic physics research community. The experimental nuclear physics program emphasizes use of heavy ions to probe structure of heavy nuclei and address questions in nuclear astrophysics. Our physicists conduct their research here and at accelerator facilities around the world, including the Super Proton Synchrotron at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) Atomic physicists conduct channeling and energy-loss experiments, study charge change in projectile beams at ultrarelativistic energies, and perform research in support of the fusion energy program. Theoretical physicists work in support of experimental physics to predict outcomes and better understand results.

70. Astronomy Astrophysics - Physics Division Colloquium 13 Apr 1990, John P. Huchra, Harvard Smithsonian Center for AStrophysics, 7 Dec 1990, Michael S. Turner, Fermilab, big bang Nucleosynthesis Nuclear http://www.phy.anl.gov/div/col/classified/astro.html

ANL Physics Division Colloquia on 31 Oct 1980 G. J. Wasserburg , Caltech, Extinct Radioactivities and isotopic anomalies in the early solar system 16 Jan 1981 C. Rolfs , Muenster and Ohio State, The solar neutrino problem- or is it? 30 Jan 1981 E. B. Norman , Washington U., 26Al and 180Ta: two puzzles in nuclear astrophysics 13 Mar 1981 Edward C. Stone , Caltech, The Voyager encouter with Saturn 3 Apr 1981 W. Press , Harvard, Sunny weather - nonlinear hydrodynamics deep in the sun 24 Apr 1981 R. Geroch , Chicago, Distorted black holes 16 Apr 1982 J. S. Gallagher , U. of Illinois, Urbana, Confrontation between Galaxy Evolution Models and the Observations 15 Oct 1982 H. Hill , Arizona, Testing general relativity - a helio-seismological determination of the gravitational quadrupole moment of the sun 3 Dec 1982 David N. Schramm , U. of Chicago, The Very Early Universe 18 Feb 1983 Michael S. Turner , Chicago, Cosmology 25 Mar 1983 R. N. Clayton , Chicago, Isotopic Tracers and Clocks in Meteorites 8 Apr 1983 W. Ockels , European Space Agency, Spacelab I - The European Laboratory to be flown with the U. S. Space Shuttle

71. Nuclearastro Nuclear astrophysics. The objective of this research program is to investigate nuclear Ongoing work in this area involves bigbang nucleosynthesis, http://www.phy.anl.gov/theory/research/nuclastro.html

Nuclear astrophysics The objective of this research program is to investigate nuclear processes that take place in stars, in the big bang, and in interstellar and intergalactic space. Nuclear phenomena are ubiquitous in the universe. The stars shine by nuclear energy, and the chemical compositions observed in the solar system and elsewhere are the results of nuclear processes that occurred in the big bang and inside the several generations of stars that have formed since then. Many astrophysical phenomena may only be understood by a combination of nuclear physics with methods more familiar to astrophysicists. A particularly important problem is to determine rates for the nuclear reactions that occur in astrophysical environments. We have applied advances in the theoretical descriptions of light nuclei to compute cross sections important for big-bang nucleosynthesis and the solar neutrino flux. This work continues in close connection with our other work on light nuclei, and the main goals at present are to improve the wave functions and computational methods. There are many applications (for example, the rapid neutron capture process) where large contributions from theoretical nuclear physics particularly masses and cross sections will always be necessary as input, and we maintain research interests in these areas. Understanding nucleosynthesis and energy generation in a particular astrophysical environment requires calculations of nuclear reaction networks. Even for cases in which the detailed astrophysical phenomena can only be understood from difficult calculations coupling a reaction network and hydrodynamics, simpler network calculations can identify the crucial reactions and other nuclear properties to be determined by more detailed theoretical and experimental work. Ongoing work in this area involves big-bang nucleosynthesis, nuclear burning in low-mass stars, and photon-nucleus reactions in high-energy cosmic rays.

72. Department Of Physics - Brown University Like the universe itself, the cosmology and astrophysics program at Brown is relict light formed 300000 years after the big bang, provides precision http://www.physics.brown.edu/research/detail.asp?id=1

73. The Big Bang As Scientific Fact -- FABER 950 (1): 39 -- Annals Of The New York A Department of of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz, Read here the cosmic history of humanity, beginning with the big bang. http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/950/1/39

HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ... Order this book! This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Services Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by FABER, S. M. Related Collections Cosmology Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences New York Academy of Sciences The Big Bang as Scientific Fact S. M. FABER Department of of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA Address for correspondence: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. Voice: 831-459-2944. faber@ucolick.org In the year 1900, humanity had barely a notion of our place on the cosmic stage, and no inkling at all of how we got here. The one hundred short years of the twentieth century sufficed to unravel 14 billion years of cosmic history and how those grand events, after 9 billions of years or so, set the stage for the birth of our own home, the Solar System. The key events

74. [hep-th/9907067] Elementary Introduction To Pre-big Bang Cosmology And To The Re Waves in Astrophysics, Cosmology and String Theory } (Center A. Volta , For a deeper and more complete approach to the prebig bang scenario the http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9907067

High Energy Physics - Theory, abstract hep-th/9907067 From: Maurizio Gasperini [ view email ] Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:30:51 GMT (172kb) Elementary introduction to pre-big bang cosmology and to the relic graviton background Authors: M. Gasperini Categories: hep-th gr-qc Comments: 53 pages, Latex, IOP style, 12 figures included using epsf. To appear in Proc. of the Second SIGRAV School on ``Gravitational Waves in Astrophysics, Comology and String Theory" (Villa Olmo, Como, 19-24 April 1999), edited by V. Gorini et al Report-no: BA-TH/99-345 this http URL Full-text: PostScript PDF , or Other formats References and citations for this submission: SLAC-SPIRES HEP (refers to , cited by , arXiv reformatted); CiteBase (autonomous citation navigation and analysis) 1 trackback What's this? (send trackbacks to http://arxiv.org/trackback/hep-th/9907067) Which authors of this paper are endorsers? Links to: arXiv hep-th find abs

75. [astro-ph/0504501] From Little Bangs To The Big Bang Astrophysics, abstract astroph/0504501. From John Ellis view email Date Fri, From Little bangs to the big bang. Authors John Ellis http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504501

Astrophysics, abstract astro-ph/0504501 From: John Ellis [ view email ] Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:01:03 GMT (237kb) From Little Bangs to the Big Bang Authors: John Ellis Categories: astro-ph Comments: Invited Plenary Talk at the International Conference on the Physics and Astrophysics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, Kolkata, Feb. 2005: 13 pages, 11 figures, uses IoP style files (included) Report-no: CERN-PH-TH/2005-070 The `Little Bangs' made in particle collider experiments reproduce the conditions in the Big Bang when the age of the Universe was a fraction of a second. It is thought that matter was generated, the structures in the Universe were formed and cold dark matter froze out during this very early epoch when the equation of state of the Universe was dominated by the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Future Little Bangs may reveal the mechanism of matter generation and the nature of cold dark matter. Knowledge of the QGP will be an essential ingredient in quantitative understanding of the very early Universe. Full-text: PostScript PDF , or Other formats References and citations for this submission: SLAC-SPIRES HEP (refers to , cited

76. EBooks.com The World's Leading Source Of EBooks You have selected the subject of Astrophysics Space Science. The big bang Theory What It Is, Where It Came From, and Why It Works By Fox, Karen C. http://usa1.ebooks.com/subjects/browse.asp?SID=580

77. Astrophysics And Cosmology: The Golden Age (December 1999) - Physics World - Phy As we look back over 2000 years of astrophysics, we see two enormous peaks of This Planckian form is the strongest possible evidence for a bigbang http://physicsweb.org/article/world/12/12/16/1

Advanced site search physics world sample issue Request a sample issue browse the archive January February March April May June July August September October November December Latest issue Subscribe to Physics World Media Information ... Editorial Staff quick search Search Physics World Physics World December 1999 Astrophysics and cosmology: the golden age Feature: December 1999 Our understanding of the universe has advanced immeasurably in the last century, and there seems no end to the wealth of new discoveries as we approach the next millennium. Distant galaxies As we look back over 2000 years of astrophysics, we see two enormous peaks of scientific achievement. One is at the beginning of the epoch - the Greek world of Aristotle, Aristarchus and Ptolemy. The other peak is where we are standing now. The achievements in this century, and particularly during the last 50 years, have been immense. Around 330 BC Aristotle recognized that the Sun and Moon are spheres, and that their orbits around the Earth are circular. He showed that the movements of the planets could be constructed from a combination of several circular motions. But after carefully considering the idea that the Sun was at the centre of the orbits, he opted for the Earth as the centre of the solar system. Aristotle correctly explained eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and deduced that the Earth was spherical from its shadow on the Moon. He even made a fair estimate of the Earth's radius. Moreover, he recognized that the stars must be very distant and argued that they too were spherical. He also postulated that they were distributed over a range of distances.

78. In The News: Fred Hoyle Dies At 86; Opposed 'Big Bang' But Named It Fred Hoyle Dies at 86; Opposed big bang but Named It Fred was probably the most creative and original person in astrophysics after World War II, Dr. http://www.arn.org/docs2/news/fredhoyledeath082201.htm

Access Research Network ARN Library Files New York Times August 22, 2001 Fred Hoyle Dies at 86; Opposed 'Big Bang' but Named It By WALTER SULLIVAN Sir Fred Hoyle, one of the most creative and provocative astrophysicists of the last half century, who helped explain how the heavier elements were formed and gave the name Big Bang, meant to be derisive, to the theory of cosmic origin he vehemently opposed, died on Monday in Bournemouth, England. He was 86 and lived in Bournemouth. He suffered a severe stroke last month and never recovered, said Dr. Geoffrey Burbidge, an astrophysicist at the University of California at San Diego who had collaborated with Dr. Hoyle on many research projects. "Fred was probably the most creative and original person in astrophysics after World War II," Dr. Burbidge said. Dr. Virginia Trimble, an astrophysicist at the University of California at Irvine, said that Dr. Hoyle's opposition to the Big Bang, while considered a mistake, "was significant in that it went a long way toward making cosmology a true science" in which competing theories were tested by observations. A versatile scientist brimming with ideas and a lifelong rebel eager for intellectual combat, Dr. Hoyle was most widely known as an author of the cosmological theory, which now has few adherents, that the universe exists in a steady state. The theory, published in 1948, contends that matter is constantly being created, so the expanding universe remains roughly the same at all times and has no beginning or end.

79. Plasma Science And Technology - Applications - Plasma Astrophysics Jorg Buchner, Plasma Astrophysics and Space Physics, Kluwer Academic Publ., Critique of big bang framework; Plasma Cosmology alternative by Eric Lerner. http://www.plasmas.org/space-astrophys.htm

Applications Overview Technology Basic Plasma Physics Space Plasmas Plasma Astrophysics Magnetic Confinement Fusion High Energy Density Physics Alternate Concepts for Fusion Gravity was the focus of 20th century astrophysics For the 21st century, it will be electromagnetism and plasmas in addition. This forthcoming scientific revolution is presaged by the rapid pace of discoveries about our own star, the Sun, and its total plasma environment. NASA References Parameters Research Sites for Plasma Astrophysics Plasma Astrophysics References Wolfgang Kundt, Astrophysics: A New Approach, Springer-Verlag, 2005. Goedbloed and S. Poedts, Principles of Magnetohydrodynamics: With Applications to Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas Cambridge, 2004. Toshi Tajima, , Perseus, 2004. Arnoldo O. Benz, Plasma Astrophysics: Kinetic Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae , Kluwer, 2002. D. De Young, The Physics of Extragalactic Radio Sources, Chicago, 2002.

80. Entrez PubMed Science. 2001 May 4;292(5518)823. Astrophysics. Echoes of the big bang put theories in tune. Seife C. Publication Types News PMID 11341258 PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1

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