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Data Analysis in Cosmology Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009 Edition
Author(s): Vicent J. Martinez (Editor), Enn Saar (Editor), Enrique Martinez Gonzales (Editor), Maria Jesus Pons-Borderia (Editor)
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: October 22, 2010
- Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 648 pages
- ISBN-10: 3642063055
- ISBN-13: 9783642063053
Book Description
The amount of cosmological data has dramatically increased in the past decades due to an unprecedented development of telescopes, detectors and satellites. Efficiently handling and analysing new data of the order of terabytes per day requires not only computer power to be processed but also the development of sophisticated algorithms and pipelines.
Aiming at students and researchers the lecture notes in this volume explain in pedagogical manner the best techniques used to extract information from cosmological data, as well as reliable methods that should help us improve our view of the universe.
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The amount of cosmological data has dramatically increased in the past decades due to an unprecedented development of telescopes, detectors and satellites. Efficiently handling and analysing new data of the order of terabytes per day requires not only computer power to be processed but also the development of sophisticated algorithms and pipelines.
Aiming at students and researchers the lecture notes in this volume explain in pedagogical manner the best techniques used to extract information from cosmological data, as well as reliable methods that should help us improve our view of the universe.
