This course includes both physical and observational cosmology, combining the pre-1999 AST1550H Universe I with parts of AST1560H Universe II that explicitly deal with the determination of cosmological models.
Course Outline
- Basic Observations
- The Robertson-Walker Metric
- The Friedmann Models
- The Thermal History of the Universe
- Primordial Nucleosynthesis
- Inflation and Baryogenesis
- Cosmological Parameters and Tests: Hubble constant, Omega q0
- Growth of Structures
- The last scattering surface and CMB
- Redshift Surveys, Bulk Flows, galaxy correlation function, Large-Scale structure
- N-body simulations
