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Table of Contents
THE ELEMENTS OF PRACTICAL COSMOLOGY
EXPERIMENTAL GEOMETRY
The Necessity for Space Curvature
The Idea of Geometrical Experiments
Line Lengths and Areas on a Sphere of Constant
Curvature
The Volume V(r) in Robertson-Walker Spaces
COUNT-REDSHIFT RELATION
The Coordinate r as a Function of Redshift
The Predicted K(z, q0) Relation
THE REDSHIFT-MAGNITUDE EQUATION
The Predicted Hubble Diagram With No Luminosity
Evolution
Conversion of Observed Heterochromatic Apparent
Magnitude to the Apparent Bolometric Scale: The K Correction
The Predicted Hubble Diagram With Correction for
Luminosity Evolution
The Look-Back Time as a Function of A and
q0
PREDICTED AND OBSERVED COUNT-MAGNITUDE RELATION
Method of Predicting
N(m, q0, E) for an Infinitely Narrow
Luminosity Function
The Full Complication of the
N(m, q0, E) Prediction,
Given E(z) and the Luminosity Function
(M,
T)
Observations
THE m(z) HUBBLE DIAGRAM
Local Tests for Linearity of the Redshift
- Distance Relation
The Hubble Diagram at Large Redshifts
NONGEOMETRICAL EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION IN THE LOOK-BACK
TIME
Changes in Spectral Energy Distribution With
Redshift
Changes in Morphological Mix
Reassessment of the N(m) Count Evidence
for Luminosity Evolution at z > 0.5
Evolution Inferred From Quasar Counts
ANGULAR DIAMETER OF RIGID RODS
The Standard Model
Diameters of First-Ranked Cluster Galaxies
at Low Redshift
High-Redshift Data
TIME-SCALE TEST
The Standard Model Prediction
The Value of T0 From the Chemical
Elements and From the Oldest Stars
Value of H0
The Time Test of the Standard Model
REFERENCES
1 Presently at Mount Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, California 91101. Back.
