从大弹力到洛伦兹主导宇宙:沃尔夫冈·普里斯特的传记
天体物理学
2009-11-11 v1
摘要
沃尔夫冈·普里斯特是德国最具多才性和幽默风趣的天文物理学家之一,他成功地在无线电天文学家、空间物理学家和宇宙学家三个领域中不断自我重塑,并在每个领域都留下了持久的影响。本篇传记文章重点介绍了他在宇宙学领域的贡献,他将在该领域最广为人知的是与类星体的关联,提出“大弹力”(big bounce)这一在当前膨胀阶段开始的无奇点模型,以及在类星体成为宇宙学标准范式之前就认识到暗能量(爱因斯坦的宇宙常数Lambda)的重要性。
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0608644,
title = {Wolfgang Priester: from the big bounce to the Lambda-dominated universe},
author = {James Overduin and Hans-Joachim Blome and Josef Hoell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0608644},
year = {2009}
}
备注
12 pages, 7 figures, optimized for A4 paper. Partly biographical, partly historical review of subjects to which Priester contributed (quasars, nonsingular cosmology, dark energy). Preprint version only; published version to appear in Naturwissenschaften