and Cosmology

Subject Index
454
321–324
– Abell catalog 228–230
– Abell radius 229
– baryon content 323
– beta-model 261
– catalogs 228–230, 255–256, 322
– classification 231
– color–magnitude diagram 271
– Coma cluster 12, 228, 242
– cooling flows 248–252, 263, 401
– core radius 232, 233
– dark matter 223, 234, 248, 323
– distance class 230
– evolution effects 270–273
– galaxy distribution 231–233
– galaxy luminosity function 230
– galaxy population 393
– HIFLUGCS catalog 255, 256
– hydrogen clouds 237
– intergalactic stars 236–237
– intracluster medium 223, 236,
242–256
– luminosity function 256, 270
– mass determination 13, 233–234,
246, 248, 257, 262, 266, 322
– mass–luminosity relation 258
– mass–temperature relation 256
– mass-to-light ratio 234, 266
– mass–velocity dispersion relation
257
– morphology 231
– near-infrared luminosity 259
– normalization of the power spectrum
291, 322, 324
– number density 322, 330
– projection effects 229, 255
– richness class 230
– scaling relations 256–260, 322
– Virgo Cluster 12, 228
– X-ray radiation 13
– Zwicky catalog 229
COBE 22, 168, 336, 341, 346
cold dark matter (CDM) 286
– substructure 396
collisionless gas 94
color excess 41
color filter 420–422
color index 41, 420
color temperature 425
color–magnitude diagram 39, 373,
425
Coma cluster of galaxies 12, 117, 228
comoving coordinates 146, 280
comoving observers 146, 155
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
(CGRO) 32, 402
Compton scattering 193
– inverse 168, 193, 214, 252, 381
concentration index of the NFW profile
299
convection 427
convergence point 38
cooling fronts 251
cooling of gas 384, 391, 396
– and star formation 384, 396
– the role of molecular hydrogen 384
Copernicus satellite 30
correlation function 283–284, 288,
316, 338, 360, 398
– related to biasing 358
correlation length 283
cosmic microwave background 3, 16,
142, 252, 253, 336, 379
– dipole 114, 316, 320
– discovery 168, 336
– fluctuations 277, 278, 309,
336–349
– foreground emission 342
– measuring the anisotropy 341–349
– origin 168
– polarization 307, 348
– primary anisotropies 336–337
– redshift evolution 156
– secondary anisotropies 336–338,
341
– spectrum 156, 381, 383
– temperature 156
cosmic rays 51–54, 180
– acceleration 53
– energy density 54
cosmic shear see gravitational lenses
cosmic variance 346–347
cosmological constant 4, 15, 148,
149, 327, 344, 349
cosmological parameters,
determination 291, 309–355
cosmological principle 145
cosmology 14, 17, 141–174, 309,
277–354
– components of the Universe
149–151
– curvature scalar 151
– density fluctuations 145, 277–335
– expansion equation 147, 149–155
– expansion rate 146, 155
– homogeneous world models
141–174
– Newtonian cosmology 146–148
– structure formation 16, 17, 279,
391
COSMOS survey 367
D
D n –σ relation 108
dark energy 4, 149, 327, 328, 353,
412
dark matter 3, 63, 64, 102, 165–166,
353, 411–412
– cold and hot dark matter 286–287,
351, 391
– in clusters of galaxies 13, 223, 248
– in galaxies 8, 100, 101
– in the Universe 17, 165, 281, 336
dark matter halos 101, 290–293, 391
– number density 291–293, 322, 383
– substructure 302–306
– universal mass profile 298–302
de Vaucouleurs law 55, 90, 98
deceleration parameter 153, 154
declination 35
deflection of light see gravitational
lenses
density contrast 278, 289
density fluctuations in the Universe
277
– origin 307
density parameter 148, 151, 154, 171,
322, 330, 336, 344, 349, 351, 353
deuterium 163
– in QSO absorption lines 165
– primordial 165
diskiness in elliptical galaxies 96
distance determination 114, 253
– of extragalactic objects 104,
114–117
– within the Milky Way 36–44
distance ladder 114
distance modulus 40, 422
distances in cosmology 155,
157–159, 216
Doppler broadening 196