Cosmology lecture notes

Hudson M.

Table of contents :
outline……Page 1
chapter00……Page 3
A Very Brief History……Page 4
Expansion of the Universe……Page 6
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)……Page 8
Baryonic Universe……Page 11
Evidence for Dark Matter……Page 12
Galaxies……Page 16
The “Standard Model”……Page 18
The Metric……Page 21
Robertson-Walker metric……Page 22
Kinematics of the Expansion……Page 25
Dynamics of the Expansion……Page 28
Solutions to Friedmann equation……Page 31
Horizons……Page 33
Distance Measures in Cosmology……Page 35
Cosmological tests based on standard candles and rods……Page 37
Ages and the Hubble Constant……Page 40
Temperature Evolution of the Blackbody Radiation……Page 44
Thermodynamics in the Early Universe……Page 45
A Brief Thermal History à la Kolb & Turner……Page 47
Physics of “Re”combination……Page 49
Primordial Nucleosynthesis……Page 51
Neutron freeze-out……Page 52
Observations of the Light Elements……Page 53
Jeans’ analysis……Page 55
Growth of matter and radiation fluctuations in a flat Universe……Page 60
Collisionless Damping……Page 63
The Transfer Function……Page 64
“Initial” Conditions for k……Page 65
Fourier Transforms……Page 66
Filtering……Page 67
Correlation Function……Page 71
Theory……Page 74
Root-mean-square velocities……Page 75
The Peculiar Velocity Field……Page 76
Redshift-Space Distortions……Page 77
Gravitational Lensing……Page 80
Fermat’s Principle……Page 83
Strong Lensing……Page 84
Strong lensing by galaxies……Page 85
Microlensing……Page 86
Weak Lensing – Magnification and Shear……Page 87
Spherical Collapse……Page 90
Mass Multiplicity Functions……Page 92
Merger Trees……Page 94
The Internal Structure of Cold Dark Matter Haloes……Page 95
Towards an understanding of the large-scale features of the galaxy distribution……Page 96
Elliptical galaxies……Page 98
Angular Momentum……Page 101
Disk galaxies……Page 103
Fluctuations on Large Scales……Page 104
Large-Scale Angular Power Spectrum……Page 106
Sound Waves in the CMB……Page 107
Curvature Effects……Page 111
Secondary Sources of TT……Page 112
Horizon Problem……Page 113
Dynamics of the Inflaton Field……Page 114
The Chaotic Inflation Scenario……Page 116
Fluctuations from Inflation……Page 117
assign1……Page 119
assign2……Page 120
assign3……Page 121
termpaper……Page 125