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Amazon logo The links below are to the course lecture notes and readings.  Many of the links go to the arXiv.org e-Print Archive, with downloadable versions of the papers.  The textbook readings are in:   Peacock, John A. Cosmological Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1998.  ISBN: 9780521422703.



LEC #TOPICSREADINGS
1Overview; Hubble Expansion
2General Relativity OverviewPeacock: Chapter 1
3Robertson-Walker ModelsPeacock: Chapter 3.1-3.3
4Cosmography 1: H0t0, Angular Diameter TestPeacock: Chapter 5

Lecture Note: Cosmography in a Robertson-Walker Universe (PDF)
5Cosmography 2: SNe IaPeacock: Chapter 3.4, 5

High-z SN Team, Turner & Riess, Filippenko
6Inflation 1Peacock: Chapter 11.1-11.3
7Inflation 2Peacock: Chapter 11.3-11.4

Liddle
8Quantum Fluctuations from InflationPeacock: Chapter 11.5
9Radiation Era, NucleosynthesisPeacock: Chapter 9

Burles et al
10Baryogenesis, CMB BasicsPeacock: Chapter 9.6, 9.4

Smoot
11CMB Anisotropy 1Peacock: Chapter 12.3, 18
12CMB Anisotropy 2Peacock: Chapter 18

Lecture Note: Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy (PDF)
13CMB Anisotropy 3Peacock: Chapter 18

Lecture Note: CMB Anisotropy Notes (PDF)
14Gamma-ray Bursts
15High-z Galaxies and QSOsPeacock: Chapter 13, 14

MadauAbraham & van den Bergh
16QSO Absorption Lines 1Peacock: Chapter 12.1-12.2

MadauBecker et al
17QSO Absorption Lines 2Peacock: Chapter 12.1-12.2
18Galaxy ClusteringPeacock: Chapter 16
19Newtonian Structure Formation TheoryPeacock: Chapter 15.1-15.4

Lecture Note: Cosmological Perturbation Theory and Structure Formation
20Nonlinear ModelsPeacock: Chapter 15.7-15.8
21Relativistic Perturbation TheoryPeacock: Chapter 15.5-15.6
22Structure Formation Models 1Peacock: Chapter 17.1-17.2
23Structure Formation Models 2Turner review
24Galaxy Formation 1Peacock: Chapter 17.3-17.4
25Galaxy Formation 2Peacock: Chapter 17.5

N-body Simulations
26Frontiers of CosmologyRees

 








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