AST5220 - V?r 2015

Syllabus/achievement requirements

Scott Dodelson: Modern Cosmology, 2003. Academic Press. ISBN: 0-12-219141-2. Curriculum consists of chapter 1 to 8, in addition to material covered in project work.

Prosjektoppgave

Milestone 1: The background evolution of the universe.

Milestone 2: The recombination history of the universe.

Milestone 3: The evolution of structures in the universe.

Milestone 4: The CMB power Spectrum.

Hans Kristian Eriksen: Summary of equations for CMB spectrum calculation, Overview of equations to be implemented; not complete. Version April 9th, 2010.. cmbspec_eqns.pdf.

Power point lecture notes

http://folk.uio.no/hke/AST5220/v15/AST5220_recombination_2015.pdf

http://folk.uio.no/hke/AST5220/v15/AST5220_2_2015.pdf

?ystein Elgar?y's lecture notes from earlier years -- not curriculum, but very useful

?. Elgar?y: En kort introduksjon til generell relativitetsteori, Very good lecture notes on GR. Notes.

?. Elgar?y: A short introduction to General Relativity, Notes.

?. Elgar?y: Kosmologisk perturbasjonsteori: forpostfektninger, Very good introductory notes on Boltzmann equations . Notes.

?. Elgar?y: Kosmologisk perturbasjonsteori: I ditt ansikts sved skal du ete ditt br?d, Detailed derivations of the perturbed Boltzmann equations; only Norwegian. Notes.

?. Elgar?y: Kosmologisk perturbasjonsteori: Einsteintensoren vender tilbake, Detailed derivation of the perturbed Einstein equations; only Norwegian. Notes.

?. Elgar?y: Initialbetingelser: I begynnelsen var φ, Derivations of inflationary initial conditions. Notes.

?. Elgar?y: Skalarfelt og kvante?uktuasjoner, Notes on scalar fields and inflation. Notes.

Nyttig tilleggslitteratur

P. Callin: How to calculate the CMB spectrum, 2005. Very useful paper; read this, as it describes in detail what we will do. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606683.

B. Einarsson: L?robok i Fortran 95, 2007. Useful F90 reference, but in Swedish. http://www.nsc.liu.se/~boein/f90/.

Press et al.: Numerical recipes, Very useful description of numerical algorithms; older versions are available online. http://www.nr.com/oldverswitcher.html

Dr. C.-K. Shene : Online F90 tutorial in English; PPTs seems useful, but I don't know them very well .

Steven H. Terry: Nice F90 reference. http://folk.uio.no/steikr/doc/f77/tutorial/.

Joel Spolsky: Good tutorial for Mercurial. Hg Init.