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AS7009
Cosmology, 7.5 hp, Fall 2009 |
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Literature: |
Barbara
Ryden, 2002, "Introduction To Cosmology", Pearson Higher
Education ISBN 0805389121 |
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Contents: |
The world
models of general relativity, cosmic expansion, thermodynamics and
nucleosynthesis in the early Universe, dark matter and dark energy, methods
for measuring cosmological parameters, structure formation, the cosmic
microwave background radiation, inflation. |
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Prerequisites: |
Knowledge
corresponding to the first two years of a Bachelor's degree in physics, or
similar. |
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Examination: |
Seminars,
literature report and hand-in exercises. |
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Teacher: |
Erik
Zackrisson, ez(at)astro.su.se, phone: 08-5537 8556 |
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Time: |
November-December 2009 |
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Schedule (preliminary)
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Date |
Time |
Room |
Lecture/ |
Topics |
To read |
To turn in/prepare |
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Nov 2 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Lecture 1 |
Course
information Course
overview Cosmic
epochs |
Chapter 1 |
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Nov 3 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Lecture 2 |
Cosmological
principle Cosmic
expansion General
relativity Metrics |
Chapter 2
+ first half of chapter 3 |
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Nov 5 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Lecture 3 |
Robertson-Walker
metric Proper
distance Cosmic
dynamics |
Second half of chapter 3 + chapter 4 |
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Nov 10 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Lecture 4 |
Dynamics with single and multiple components |
Chapters
5 + 6 |
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Nov 11 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Lecture 5 |
Measuring
cosmological parameters Dark
energy |
Chapter 7 |
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Nov 12 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Lecture 6 |
Dark matter |
Chapter 8 |
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Nov 12 |
13-15 |
FC61 |
Exercise session I |
Exercises
1-6 |
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Nov 16 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Seminar I |
Common
misconceptions about modern cosmology |
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See
instructions for seminar I |
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Nov 17 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Lecture 7
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Cosmic
microwave background radiation |
Chapter 9 |
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Nov 17 |
13-15 |
FC61 |
Exercise session II |
Exercises 7-12 |
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Nov 19 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Lecture 8 |
Big bang
nucleosynthesis The early
Universe |
Chapter
10 |
Hand-in exercises 1-3 |
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Nov 23 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Lecture 9 |
Inflation |
Chapter 11 |
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Nov 25 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Lecture 10 |
Structure
formation |
Chapter 12 |
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Nov 25 |
13-15 |
FC61 |
Exercise session III |
Exercises
13-18 |
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Hand-in
exercises 4-6 |
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Nov 26 |
10-12 |
FC61 |
Seminar II |
Strange
Universe |
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See
instructions for seminar II |
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Dec 4 |
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Hand-in exercises 7-9 Written literature report |
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Dec 7 |
13-17 |
FC61 |
Oral
reports |
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Oral
literature report |
· Two seminars
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Three sets of hand in-exercises
· Written essay (minimum 3 pages) + oral presentation
(10 minutes)
Course
material
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Exercises
(including hand-ins)
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Lecture notes: L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7, L8, L9, L10
Errata
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L4: Slides 29 and 31 appear completely black in the
hand-out versions, due to file conversion problems. Both of these are supposed
to feature figure 6.3 (page 92) from the textbook. Slide 31 just indicates
where the benchmark model is in this diagram.
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L4, slide
16: H0 should be squared in the middle row (corrected on Nov 10).
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L7, slide 33: The text should read “…are
also sensitive to the CDM density” (corrected on Nov 17).