Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:1, Lb:0]
Knowledge of the content of PHY635 is
essential to follow this course.
- Expansion of the Universe, Friedman-Robertson-Walker-Lemaitre model,
Geodesics and Distance, geodesic deviation, Standard candles and
Standard Rulers.
- Standard cosmological model: radiation dominated era, matter
domination, dark energy and accelerated expansion. Horizon problem,
flatness problem. Inflationary paradigm.
- Thermal history of the universe, primordial nucleosynthesis,
decoupling of neutrinos, weakly interacting massive particles,
electron-positron annihilation, matter radiation decoupling, last
scattering surface, cosmic microwave background radiation.
- Scalar fields in an expanding universe. Generation of perturbations
in inflation, Tensor and Scalar perturbations, Reheating.
- Perturbations in an expanding universe. relativistic perturbation
theory, growth of perturbations in different scenarios. Fluctuations
in the cosmic microwave background radiation. Transfer Functions,
Baryon Acoustic oscillations,
- Sachs-Wolfe and Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect, Silk damping, The
observed fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation
and its relation with Cosmological Parameters, Observational constraints.
- Models of dark energy, observational constraints on models of dark energy.
- Late time perturbations, geometric effects, redshift space distortions.
- T. Padmanabhan, Theoretical Astrophysics, Vol.III:
Galaxies and Cosmology, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- S. Weinberg, Cosmology, Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Ruth Durrer, The cosmic microwave background, Cambridge
University Press, 2008.
- Scott Dodelson, Modern Cosmology,Elsevier, 2005.
