Astro 310 - Fall 2016 Cosmology I

Class notes

• Sep. 27 Notes and figures Foundations of Cosmology.
• Sep. 29 Notes Robertson-Walker metric. Propagation of light.
• Oct. 4 Notes Evolution of surface brightness. Empty universe.
• Oct. 6 Notes Dynamics of ordinary matter. Lemaitre equation. Matter with pressure.
• Oct. 11 Notes Dark energy. Universe as a function of redshift.
• Oct. 13 Notes and figures Measurements at high redshift. Growth of overdense perturbations.
• Oct. 18 Notes and figures Growth of perturbations and voids.
• Oct. 20 Notes and figures Peculiar velocities. Redshift space distortions. Correlation functions in 1-D.
• Oct. 25 Notes and figures Correlation functions in 3-d. Harrison-Zel'dovich hypothesis. Press-Schechter theory.
• Oct. 27 Notes Radiation in early universe. Chemical equilibrium. Freeze-out.
• Nov. 1 Notes Primordial nucleosynthesis.
• Nov. 3 Notes and figures Recombination.
• Nov. 8 Notes Post-recombination. Surface of last scattering.
• Nov. 10 Notes Inflation.
• Nov. 15 Notes and figures Primordial perturbations.
• Nov. 17 Notes Surface of last scattering. Horizons. Sachs-Wolf effect.
• Nov. 22 Notes and figures CMB Spectrum. Acoustic Peaks. S-Z effect.
• Nov. 29 Notes and figures Dark Matter experiments

Problem Sets

1. Due Oct. 6
2. Due Oct. 13
3. Due Oct. 20
4. Due Nov. 1
5. Due Nov. 10