This page is for the exercises of the Cosmology course taught by Prof. Peter Schneider and Prof. Christiano Porciani, in the winter semester of 2012-2013.

Exercises: Cosmology 2012-2013

Time	Room	Tutor	Email	Tutor's office (AIfA)
Tuesday, 14-16	AIfA lecture hall	Nikhel Gupta	nikhel	1.019
Wednesday 10-12	3.010	David Mülheims	muelheims	2.002 (AIfA library)
Friday 14-16	AIfA lecture hall	Hananeh Saghiha	hananeh	2.026

If you want to give some (anonymous) feedback concerning the lecture or the exercises, feel free to leave us a message in the feedback form or contact us directly.

Exam results

(without any kind of warranty)

The total number of points is the sum of the exam points and 50% of the mid-term points.

matriculation number	grade
2070534	3.3
2142964	3.3
2186112	3.0
2218788	2.3
2220348	1.0
2221662	1.0
2224988	1.7
2226168	2.0
2228153	1.3
2238151	1.0
2246862	1.7
2453872	2.3
2472399	2.7
2472905	5.0
2514823	4.0
2541694	3.0
2551349	4.0
2552614	2.0
2556699	2.7
2560173	2.7
2598787	3.0
2598800	5.0
2601339	5.0

Key to grades:

points	grade
>=90	1.0
>=85	1.3
>=80	1.7
>=75	2.0
>=70	2.3
>=65	2.7
>=60	3.0
>=55	3.3
>=50	4.0
<50	5.0

Informations about the mid-term exams

On the 11th December the mid-term exam will take place at the end of the cosmology lecture, i.e. after the break.
You will only need to bring a pen (no pencil!) to write with. Paper will be provided to you.
Any other tools, electronic devices, notes or books are not allowed for the testate.
Note: This ban of electronic devices also includes any kind of pocket calculators or slide rules!

Results (without any warranty):

matriculation number	points
2070534	8.0
2142964	11.0
2156112	10.5
2218788	13.0
2220348	16.0
2221662	20.5
2224988	24.0
2226168	8.5
2228153	17.0
2238191	16.0
2246862	12.0
2453872	5.5
2472399	5.0
2514823	7.5
2541694	9.5
2551349	8.0
2552614	8.5
2560173	13.0
2598787	14.0
guest	12.0
without number	9.0
without number	6.5

Exercise sheets & Provisional Calendar

No.	Topic	Date Set	Classes week of	Format
0	Basic Knowledge	9th Oct 2012	16th - 19th Oct 2012	pdf
1	Age of the Universe, alternative expansion laws, Quintessence	16th Oct 2012	23th - 26th Oct 2012	pdf
2	More on Friedmann World Model	23rd Oct 2012	30th Oct - 2nd Nov 2012	pdf
3	Thermodynamics of the Universe	30th Oct 2012	6th - 9th Nov 2012	pdf
4	Thermal history and nucleosynthesis	6th Nov 2012	13th - 16th Nov 2012	pdf
5	Growth of Strucutures	13th Nov 2012	20th - 23rd Nov 2012	pdf
6	Peculiar velocities & bulk motion	20th Nov 2012	27th - 30th Nov 2012	pdf
7	BAO & power spectra	27th Nov 2012	4th - 7th Dec 2012	pdf
	Discussion of the mid-term exam	11th Dec 2012	11th Dec 2012	---
8	Power spectrum & halo mass function	11th Dec 2012	18th - 21rd Dec 2012	pdf
12	General Relativity (not relevant for final exam)	8th Jan 2013	15th - 18th Jan 2013	pdf
9	Halo model (last exercise sheet)	15th Jan 2013	22th - 25th Jan 2013	pdf
10	The Cosmic Microwave Background	15th Jan 2013	22nd - 25th Jan 2013
11	Inflation	xxx	xxx	xxx

Literature

Books

Dodelson, S.: Modern Cosmology (Academic Press 2003)
Padmanabhan, T.: Structure Formation in the Universe (Cambridge University Press 1993)
Peacock, J.: Physical Cosmology (Cambridge University Press 1999)
Padmanabhan, T.: Theoretical Astrophysics III (Cambridge University Press 2002)
Kolb, E. & Turner, M.: The Early Universe (Addison Wesley 1990)
Peebles, J.: Principles of Physical Cosmology (Princeton 1993)
Liddle, A. R. & Lyth, D.H.: Cosmological Inflation and Large Scale Structure
Weinberg, S.: Gravitation and Cosmology (Wiley 1972)
Schneider, P: Introduction to Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology (Springer 2006)
Padmanabhan, T.: Cosmology and Astrophysics through Problems (Cambridge University Press 1996)

Papers, reviews, lecture notes, etc.

Report of the ESA-ESO Working Group on Fundamental Cosmology
(What are the most important questions in cosmology, and how can they be solved?)
Saas-Fee Lectures on Gravitational Lensing
(detailed introduction to strong, weak and micro-lensing)
Images of A1689
(spectacular example of galaxy cluster lensing, as promised in the lecture)
Distance measures in cosmology (D. Hogg, 1999/2000)
Press-Schechter theory and its extensions (A. Zentner, 2006/2007)
The Cosmological Constant (S. Carroll, 2000/2001)
Lecture Notes on General Relativity (S. Carroll, 1997)
Lectures on Dark Energy and Cosmic Acceleration (J. Frieman, 2007-2009)
Dark matter candidates (L Bergström, 2009)
The Physics of Cosmic Acceleration (Caldwell & Kamionowski, 2009)
Interpretation of the cosmological metric (Cook & Burns, 2009)
Lecture Notes on CMB Theory: From Nucleosynthesis to Recombination (W. Hu, 2008)
Formation and Evolution of Galaxies: Les Houches Lectures (S. White, 1993-1994)
Practical statistics for astronomers (J. Wall, 1977-2003): available as a book (1977, 2003), or freely as two papers ( I: Definitions, the normal distribution, detection of signal, II: Correlation, Data-modelling and Sample Comparison)
The Beginning and Evolution of the Universe (Ratra & Vogeley, 2008)
Cosmological Perturbation Theory and Structure Formation (E. Bertschinger, 2000)
Advanced Topics in Cosmology: A Pedagogical Introduction (T. Padmanabhan, 2006)
The Large Scale Structure in the Universe: From Power-Laws to Acoustic Peaks (Martinez, 2008)
Correlation functions and their estimators: Landy & Szalay (1993), Szapudi & Szalay (1998), Kerscher, Szapudi & Szalay (2000)

Sites with N-body simulation movies:

Useful links

Cosmology Calculator
iCosmo interactive cosmology package (NEW! See this paper from 08.10.2008)
Wayne Hu's homepage
astro-ph
Astronomy Picture of the Day