Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology

• Main Author: Schneider, Peter
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Physics; Hubble; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4457090; https://zenodo.org/record/4457090

Amazing times! I finished the manuscript for the first edition of this book just 8 years ago—but the necessity of a new edition was urgently felt. In these years we have witnessed an enormous development in the field of extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. On the instrument side, the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope brought two new very powerful instruments to this unique observatory, the Herschel and Planck satellites were launched and conducted their very successful missions, the South Pole Telescope and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope started operation, ALMA was inaugurated and began observations, and new powerful high-resolution instruments were installed on 10-m class telescopes.