Observational Cosmology
Astronomie 6935 / astro845
Sommersemester 2009
Frank Bertoldi (73-6789), Cristiano Porciani
Lectures: Wednesdays 11:15 - 12:45
Location: MPIfR 0.01
For term nos.: 4 and up
Hours per week: 2
Tutor: n.n.
Prerequisites: Basic astrophysics and cosmology
Contents: An introduction to the important observations and experiments of cosmology.
Together with their historical development the emphasis will lie on current outstanding
questions and ongoing efforts to clarify them. Topics that will be covered include cosmic
structure formation and large optical galaxy and galaxy cluster surveys, the cosmic
microwave background and what we learn through it, standard candles and the discovery
of dark energy, the coeval formation of galaxies and supermassive black holes, the dark
ages, inflation.
CP Exercise 3:
Show that an observer which moves with velocity v with respect to the
cosmic comoving frame will measure a dipole temperature anisotropy in
the cosmic microwave background.
CP Exercise 4:
Can we measure the intrinsic dipole anisotropy of the background?
Why?
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