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Overview; Hubble Expansion |
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| 2 |
General Relativity Overview |
Peacock: Chapter 1 |
| 3 |
Robertson-Walker Models |
Peacock: Chapter 3.1-3.3 |
| 4 |
Cosmography 1: H0t0, Angular Diameter Test |
Peacock: Chapter 5
Lecture Note: Cosmography in a Robertson-Walker Universe (PDF) |
| 5 |
Cosmography 2: SNe Ia |
Peacock: Chapter 3.4, 5
High-z SN Team, Turner & Riess, Filippenko |
| 6 |
Inflation 1 |
Peacock: Chapter 11.1-11.3 |
| 7 |
Inflation 2 |
Peacock: Chapter 11.3-11.4
Liddle |
| 8 |
Quantum Fluctuations from Inflation |
Peacock: Chapter 11.5 |
| 9 |
Radiation Era, Nucleosynthesis |
Peacock: Chapter 9
Burles et al |
| 10 |
Baryogenesis, CMB Basics |
Peacock: Chapter 9.6, 9.4
Smoot |
| 11 |
CMB Anisotropy 1 |
Peacock: Chapter 12.3, 18 |
| 12 |
CMB Anisotropy 2 |
Peacock: Chapter 18
Lecture Note: Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy (PDF) |
| 13 |
CMB Anisotropy 3 |
Peacock: Chapter 18
Lecture Note: CMB Anisotropy Notes (PDF) |
| 14 |
Gamma-ray Bursts |
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| 15 |
High-z Galaxies and QSOs |
Peacock: Chapter 13, 14
Madau, Abraham & van den Bergh |
| 16 |
QSO Absorption Lines 1 |
Peacock: Chapter 12.1-12.2
Madau, Becker et al |
| 17 |
QSO Absorption Lines 2 |
Peacock: Chapter 12.1-12.2 |
| 18 |
Galaxy Clustering |
Peacock: Chapter 16 |
| 19 |
Newtonian Structure Formation Theory |
Peacock: Chapter 15.1-15.4
Lecture Note: Cosmological Perturbation Theory and Structure Formation |
| 20 |
Nonlinear Models |
Peacock: Chapter 15.7-15.8 |
| 21 |
Relativistic Perturbation Theory |
Peacock: Chapter 15.5-15.6 |
| 22 |
Structure Formation Models 1 |
Peacock: Chapter 17.1-17.2 |
| 23 |
Structure Formation Models 2 |
Turner review |
| 24 |
Galaxy Formation 1 |
Peacock: Chapter 17.3-17.4 |
| 25 |
Galaxy Formation 2 |
Peacock: Chapter 17.5
N-body Simulations |
| 26 |
Frontiers of Cosmology |
Rees |