Universita` di Bologna Cosmology Course April-May 2006: | |
Universita` di Bologna Dipartimento di Astronomia Cosmology (2nd half of course) 27 April - 25 May 2006 Prof. Steven T. Myers |
Martedi 4pm-6pm Giovedi 5pm-7pm Rm 2 |
Last update: 19 July 2006 |
Lectures: | |
Lecture | Date | Text | Topic | |
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L01 | 27 Apr | 7.7-7.8.1 | Cosmological Problems and Horizons | |
L02 | 02 May | 7.8.2-7.10 | The Inflationary Universe | |
L03 | 04 May | 7.10-7.12 | End of Inflation and Reheating | |
L04 | 09 May | 13.1-13.6 | Primordial Fluctuations from Inflation | |
L05 | 11 May | 17.1-17.3 | Fluctuations and the Cosmic Microwave Bacground | |
L06 | 16 May | 17.4 | The Theory of CMB Fluctuations | |
L07 | 18 May | 17.5-17.6 | Cosmological Parameters and CMB Power Spectrum | |
L08 | 23 May | --- | CMB Polarization and Observations | |
L09 | 25 May | 17.7 | WMAP, CBI, and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect | |
Textbook: "Cosmology - The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Structure", P. Coles and F. Lucchin (2nd Ed.) | ||||
Extra Reference: "Physical Foundation of Cosmology", V. Mukhanov (Cambridge, 2005) | ||||
Slides from Lectures
Note - the powerpoint contains some animations that are not available in the pdf. | |
References: | |
Cosmological Constant and Inflation
Cosmic Microwave Background - Theory
Cosmic Microwave Background - Observations
Power Spectrum and Parameter Estimation and Bayesian Inference
The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
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Online Resources: | |
CMB Codes
CMB and Cosmology Websites
CMB Data and Observations
Literature Archives and Searches | |
Don't take jesters into outer space,
that's my advice.Fourteen lifeless planets,
a few comets, two stars.
By the time you take off for the third star,
your jesters will be out of humor.--- Wislawa Szymborska, from "Warning".