Ast/Phys 5022 - Cosmology (Fall 2012)
Syllabus & Grading
Lecture Notes
Relativity, Maxwell's Eqs & Lorentz Invariance, Newton vs EM vs GR
Global Geometry
Inflation
Early Universe and Thermal History
Gravitational Instability - Jeans analysis
Cosmic Microwave Background
CMB acoustic peaks - PPT slides
Structure Formation
Structure Formation - PPT slides
Resources
astro-ph: preprint archive
NASA ADS paper archive
Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
Brief history of the Universe -1
Brief history of the Universe - 2
Euclid's Five Postulates
Global Cosmological Parameters
Dynamical evolution of various models:
Flat;
no Lambda;
with Lambda
Supernova Cosmology Project
Expansion age for various universe models
Angular diameter distances for various universe models
Particle and Event Horizons in 2 models
astro-ph/0603449, WMAP results; see p.28, p.54, p.57, p.58
astro-ph/0409131, "The current status of observational cosmology" see p.6
see the last picture: P(k) from
CMB and galaxy clustering
Methods of measuring the Hubble constant, H0
Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
Galaxy Gravitational Lenses
Water Masers (see 1st talk, p.9)
Distance Ladder
Distance Ladder - summary of methods
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
Gravitational lensing time delays (see p.10,11,12)
Summary of H0 estimates, arXiv:0802.3219 (p.24)
Density Fluctuation in the Universe
2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
Two micron all sky galaxy survey
A compilation of things, by Martin White (UCB)
A popular-level version of P(k); M.Tegmark
Matter Power Spectrum: astro-ph/0608632, see p.31
Matter Power Spectrum: astro-ph/0603449, see p.24
Early Universe
Time line, from Kolb and Turner
Dark Matter (Direct detection) Limits on WIMP mass and cross-section
Dark Matter (not Early Universe) "Bullet Cluster"
Parity Violation - an article from Los Alamos Science
CERN site
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN):
Abundance vs. baryon/photon ratio
Helium mass fraction
BBN predictions vs. observations + CMB (see p.51)
He-4,D,He-3,Li-7
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
All things CMB
WMAP sky maps and power spectra
CMB spectral energy distribution and the Planck curve
CMB quadrupole and octapole (p.13, Tegmark et al.)
Visualizing spherical harmonics
First few spherical harmonics
CMB's cosmological parameter dependencies, p.5 (Baumann, Peiris)
Wayne Hu's CMB pages