| Contents: This class provides an overview of current and future experimental efforts aimed at improving our understanding of the universe, including the nature of dark matter and dark energy. After briefly reviewing the current standard cosmological model, we will focus on the motivations, techniques and aims of the leading experiments in the field. |
| Date
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Lecturer
|
Topic
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Slides
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Exercises |
Due |
| 11.4 | CP |
Introduction + Cosmology basics | Lecture
1 |
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| 18.4 | CP |
Estimation
theory + Bayesian
analysis |
Lecture 2 |
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| 25.4 | CP |
Application:
Marcov Chain Monte Carlo method |
Lecture 3 |
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| 02.5 | KB | Cosmic
Microwave Background (CMB): thermal spectrum + temperature anisotropies |
Lecture 4 |
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| 09.5 | KB | CMB polarization + Overview of currrent CMB experiments | Lecture 5 |
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| 16.5 | CP |
Galaxy
spectra + Optical surveys + Baryonic acoustic oscillations |
Lecture 6 |
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| 23.5 | Dies Academicus (no lecture) |
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| 30.5 |
Pfingsten (no lecture) | ||||
| 06.6 | CP | Photometric
surveys + Dark energy probes |
Lecture 7 |
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| 13.6 | KB | Cosmology with galaxy clusters + Scaling relations | Lecture 8 |
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| 20.6 | KB | Intra-Cluster
Medium + X-ray observations + Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect |
Lecture 9 |
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| 27.6 | KB | Optical
and radio observations + Galaxy cluster surveys |
Lecture 10 |
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| 04.7 | CP |
Dark energy
surveys |
Lecture
11 |
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| 11.7 | KB |
High-z
starbursts/sub-mm
galaxies |
Lecture 12 |
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| References: |
Books Modern Cosmology (Dodelson) Cosmological Physics (Peacock) Galaxy Formation (Longair) X-ray Emission from Clusters of Galaxies (Sarazin) (available online) |
| Review articles: CMB: a Review for Particle and Nuclear Physicists (Samtleben et al. 2007) (PDF) Cosmology with the SZ Effect (Carlstrom et al. 2002) (PDF) |
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| Others Report from the US Dark Energy Task Force (PDF) |