Cosmology


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  • Introduction. Main events and key observations (keynote presentation)
  • Comoving coordinates. Kinematics of free-moving particles.
  • Friedmann equation: classical derivation.
  • Relativistic corrections. Equation of state.
  • FRW metric. Horizon. Distances.
Linear Regime:
  • Introduction: different modes
  • Linear growth I
  • Linear growth 2
  • Jeans instability and growth of fluctuations in baryons
  • Silk damping: effects of photon diffusion during the recombination epoch
  • Power spectrum, correlation functions. Transfer functions. Spectrum of velocities.
  • D. Eisenstein notes on BAO peaks in the power spectrum
  • Filters
  • Dependance of power spectrum and correlation function on cosmological parameters.
Non Linear regime:

  • Spherical Infall Model
  • Zeldovich Approximation I
  • Zeldovich Approximation II
  • Halo mass function: analytics
  • Halo mass function
  • Halo properties
  • Large-scale distribution of galaxies and Dark matter
  • Correlation functions and Power spectra of galaxies.
Physics of early Universe:

  • Inflation
  • Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
  • Recombination
  • CMB

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