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A Serendipitous Galaxy Cluster Survey with XMM: Expected Catalogue Properties and Scientific Applications
A. Kathy Romer, Pedro T. P. Viana, Andrew R. Liddle +1
This paper describes a serendipitous galaxy cluster survey that we plan to conduct with the XMM X-ray satellite. We have modeled the expected properties of such a survey for three…
Observational tests of inflation
Andrew R Liddle
We are on the verge of the first precision testing of the inflationary cosmology as a model for the origin of structure in the Universe. I review the key predictions of inflation w…
Aspects of inflationary reconstruction
Andrew R Liddle
I review various aspects of techniques for reconstructing the potential of the inflaton field from observations, with special emphasis on difficulties which might arise. While my v…
An introduction to cosmological inflation
Andrew R Liddle
An introductory account is given of the inflationary cosmology, which postulates a period of accelerated expansion during the Universe's earliest stages. The historical motivation…