Observational Cosmology - astro845
| Course | Observational Cosmology |
|---|---|
| Course No. | astro845 |
| Category | Type | Language | Teaching hours | CP | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elective | Lecture with exercises | English | 2+1 | 4 | ST |
Preparation:
Form of Testing and Examination: Requirements for the examination (written or oral): successful work with the exercises
Length of Course: 1 semester
Aims of the Course: Students with B.Sc. in Physics will be introduced to past and current experiments in cosmology, with some bias toward radio- and submillimeter astronomy
Contents of the Course: Brief history of cosmology and its initial discoveries: cosmic expansion, cosmic microwave background. Overview of modern cosmological experiments, their major aims and technology. Aims: constraints on Big Bang and dark energy, CMB power spectrum and polarization, Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, Supernova Ia distance measures, structure /cluster /galaxy formation, epoch of reionization, high-redshift galaxies and quasars. Experiments: APEX, LOFAR, Planck, Herschel, ALMA, SKA. Techniques: bolometer, HEMT
Recommended Literature:
B. F. Burke; F. Graham-Smith, An Introduction to Radio Astronomy (Cambridge University Press 2002)
J. A. Peacock; Cosmological Physics (Cambridge University Press 1998)
Contemporary Review Articles