Cosmology

Readings and Lecture Notes

The links below are to the course lecture notes and readings.  Many of the links go to the arXiv.org e-Print Archive, with downloadable versions of the papers.

The textbook readings are in: Peacock, John A. Cosmological Physics. Cambridge University Press, 1998.  ISBN: 9780521422703.

LEC #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Overview; Hubble Expansion
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
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