| Preface | p. xv |
| How to use this book | p. xxi |
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| Astrophysical processes | p. 3/135 |
| Why does an accelerated charge radiate? | p. 3/135 |
| Paranoid effect | p. 4/138 |
| Bremsstrahlung and synchrotron radiation | p. 4/140 |
| Thompson scattering and Eddington limit | p. 5/142 |
| Inverse Compton scattering and CMBR | p. 5/143 |
| Interaction of matter and radiation | p. 5/143 |
| Diffusion in energy space | p. 6/145 |
| Line widths | p. 7/147 |
| Photon: particle or wave? | p. 7/148 |
| Sensitivities of telescopes | p. 7/149 |
| Newtonian gravity | p. 8/150 |
| Neutral gaseous system | p. 8/152 |
| Transport coefficients for a gas | p. 9/154 |
| Time-scale for gravitational collisions | p. 9/156 |
| Collisionless evolution | p. 10/158 |
| When is gravity important? | p. 11/158 |
| Making a star | p. 11/160 |
| Death of stars | p. 12/163 |
| Forming the galaxies | p. 12/163 |
| Galaxy luminosity function | p. 12/164 |
| Basic plasma physics | p. 13/165 |
| Dynamics and gravity | p. 15/170 |
| Dynamical systems | p. 15/170 |
| Hamiltonian dynamics | p. 16/172 |
| Integrals of motion | p. 17/172 |
| Surfaces of section | p. 18/175 |
| Fully integrable systems | p. 19/178 |
| Systems with many particles | p. 19/179 |
| Thermodynamics | p. 22/185 |
| Systems without extensivity of energy | p. 22/186 |
| Mean field equilibrium of gravitating systems | p. 23/193 |
| Isothermal sphere | p. 26/196 |
| Gravity and degeneracy pressure | p. 27/200 |
| Collisional evolution of gravitating systems | p. 28/202 |
| Collisionless relaxation | p. 30/207 |
| Equilibria of collisionless gravitating systems | p. 31/211 |
| Axisymmetric systems and halos | p. 32/213 |
| Fluid mechanics | p. 33/215 |
| Basic equations of fluid mechanics | p. 33/215 |
| Viscosity and heat conduction | p. 34/219 |
| Macroscopic flow of fluid | p. 36/223 |
| Visualization of flow | p. 37/226 |
| Ideal fluids | p. 38/230 |
| Viscous fluids | p. 39/231 |
| Instabilities and turbulence | p. 40/235 |
| Sound waves | p. 41/238 |
| Supersonic flow of gas | p. 42/245 |
| Shock waves | p. 43/249 |
| Particle acceleration mechanisms | p. 43/252 |
| Spherical accretion | p. 44/254 |
| Accretion disc | p. 45/257 |
| The Sedov solution for a strong explosion | p. 45/259 |
| Basics of magnetohydrodynamics | p. 46/262 |
| Landau damping | p. 47/265 |
| Radiation processes | p. 48/266 |
| Feynman formula for classical radiation | p. 48/266 |
| Radiation field in simple cases | p. 49/270 |
| Radiation reaction | p. 50/273 |
| Radiation in the ultrarelativistic case | p. 51/275 |
| Bremsstrahlung | p. 51/276 |
| Magnetic fields and synchrotron radiation | p. 52/279 |
| Energy content of synchrotron sources | p. 53/283 |
| Thomson scattering | p. 53/283 |
| Compton and inverse Compton effects | p. 54/286 |
| Comptonization | p. 55/287 |
| Quantum theory of radiation | p. 57/292 |
| Classical limit and dipole approximation | p. 59/296 |
| Photoionization | p. 61/299 |
| Einstein's A, B coefficients | p. 61/203 |
| Absorption and emission in continuum case | p. 63/306 |
| Self-absorption of continuum radiation | p. 64/308 |
| General relativity | p. 65/310 |
| Accelerated frames, special relativity and gravity | p. 65/310 |
| Gravity and the metric tensor | p. 67/314 |
| Particle trajectories in a gravitational field | p. 68/316 |
| Parallel transport | p. 69/319 |
| Formulas for covariant derivative | p. 70/319 |
| Physics in curved spacetime | p. 70/320 |
| Curvature | p. 71/322 |
| Practice with metrics | p. 71/323 |
| Dynamics of gravitational field | p. 72/324 |
| Geodesic deviation | p. 73/332 |
| Schwarzschild metric | p. 73/333 |
| Gravitational lensing | p. 74/338 |
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| Friedmann model and thermal history | p. 79/343 |
| Maximally symmetric universe | p. 79/343 |
| Kinematics in Friedmann universe | p. 80/347 |
| Dynamics of the Friedmann model | p. 81/350 |
| Optical depth due to galaxies | p. 83/356 |
| Radiative processes in an expanding universe | p. 84/359 |
| Statistical mechanics in an expanding universe | p. 85/360 |
| Relics of relativistic particles | p. 86/366 |
| Relics of massive particles | p. 87/369 |
| Decoupling of matter and radiation | p. 87/379 |
| Perturbed Friedmann universe | p. 88/375 |
| Dynamics in the expanding universe | p. 90/377 |
| Trajectories in perturbed Friedmann universe | p. 90/377 |
| Density contrast from the trajectories | p. 92/381 |
| Vlasov equation and the fluid limit | p. 93/382 |
| Measures of inhomogeneity | p. 94/385 |
| Gaussian random fields | p. 95/388 |
| Linear evolution in the smooth fluid limit | p. 96/389 |
| Linear evolution of distribution function | p. 98/394 |
| Free streaming | p. 99/397 |
| Power spectra for dark matter | p. 100/400 |
| Spherically symmetric evolution | p. 101/404 |
| Scaling laws for spherical evolution | p. 102/409 |
| Self-similar evolution of Vlasov equation | p. 102/410 |
| Non-linear evolution from a scaling ansatz | p. 103/413 |
| Zeldovich approximation and pancakes | p. 104/417 |
| Accuracy of Zeldovich approximation | p. 105/419 |
| Structure formation | p. 106/422 |
| Perturbations in baryons | p. 106/422 |
| Acoustic oscillations of baryons | p. 107/424 |
| Silk damping | p. 107/425 |
| Overall evolution of baryonic perturbations | p. 107/426 |
| Non-linear collapse of baryons | p. 108/427 |
| Angular momentum of galaxies | p. 109/432 |
| Angular pattern of MBR anisotropies | p. 109/433 |
| Derivation of MBR anisotropies | p. 110/437 |
| Sachs-Wolfe effect and COBE | p. 111/440 |
| High redshift objects | p. 113/443 |
| Gunn-Peterson effect | p. 113/443 |
| Ionization of IGM | p. 114/444 |
| Re-ionization and CMBR | p. 114/445 |
| Mass functions | p. 114/446 |
| Abundance of quasars | p. 115/450 |
| Lyman-alpha forest | p. 116/453 |
| Abundance of damped Lyman-alpha clouds | p. 117/456 |
| Very early universe | p. 118/458 |
| Flattening the Hubble radius | p. 118/458 |
| Horizon and flatness problems | p. 119/459 |
| Origin of density perturbations | p. 120/461 |
| Quantum fluctuations in inflationary phase | p. 121/464 |
| Cosmological defects | p. 122/467 |
| Advanced problems | p. 124 |
| Interior potential of a homoeoid | p. 124 |
| Torus in phase space | p. 124 |
| Gravitating systems in two dimensions | p. 124 |
| Antonov instability | p. 125 |
| Degenerate self-gravitating systems | p. 125 |
| Thermal conductivity of a fluid | p. 126 |
| Ionization fronts | p. 126 |
| Radiation in classical theory | p. 127 |
| Cerenkov radiation | p. 127 |
| Lensing and caustics | p. 128 |
| Inhomogeneous universe | p. 128 |
| Collapse of dust sphere | p. 129 |
| Geometrical properties of the Friedmann model | p. 129 |
| Nucleosynthesis | p. 129 |
| Velocity space caustics | p. 130 |
| Probability distribution of matrix eigenvalues | p. 130 |
| Numerical simulations of Zeldovich approximation | p. 131 |
| CMBR anisotropies in a general cosmology | p. 131 |
| Useful constants | p. 471 |
| Notes and references | p. 471 |
| Index | p. 479 |
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