Cosmology

Alex Szalay

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MF 12:00-13:20

Bloomberg 176

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Homework #1 due Sep 29, 5pm

Homework #2 due Oct 20, 5pm

Syllabus
  • Fundamentals of observational astrophysics & cosmology
  • The expanding Universe, cosmological parameters
  • The thermal history of the Universe, the hot Big Bang
  • The Comic Microwave Background Radiation
  • Density Fluctuations
  • Galaxy Formation
  • The Large Scale Structure of the Universe
Textbooks most corresponding to the course
    Dodelson: Modern Cosmology
    Liddle: An Introduction to Modern Cosmology
Suggested readings
    Kolb and Turner: The Early Universe
    Liddle and Lyth: Cosmological Inflation and Large-Scale Structure
    Peacock: Cosmological Physics
    Peebles: Physical Cosmology
    Peebles: Principles of Physical Cosmology
    Ryden: Introduction to Cosmology
    Weinberg:The First Three Minutes
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