Basic Information
Primordial Fluctuations and Gravity Waves, Perturbed Spacetime And Gauge Choice, Energy-momentum Conservation, Photons# Propagation, Boltzmann Equation and Collision Term, Temperature Anisotropies# Baryon-photon Fluid, Tight Coupling Limit, Acoustic Oscillations, Silk Damping, Polarization Anisotropies# Spin-weighted Spherical Harmonics, E and B Mode Polarization, Integral Solutions, Angular Power Spectra and Cosmological Constraints, Secondary Anisotropies And Spectral Distortions. Learning Outcomes# At The End of This Course, The Student Will Have a Much Deeper Understanding of The Origin and Growth of Fluctuations in The Early Universe. This Is Essential For The Formation of Galaxies and Cosmic Structures in The Present-day Universe. The Student Will Also Know What Current Cmb Experiments Measure and How This Can Be Used to Constrain Cosmological Models. The Student Will Also Understand The Basic Ingredients of Publicly Available Boltzmann Codes and Be Able to Run Them Himself in Order to Produce Theoretical Predictions For Observed Cmb Power Spectra. Finally, The Student Will Have The Required Technical Background to Understand Research Papers On This Rapidly Evolving Topic.
Faculty: Physics
|Graduate Studies
Pre-required courses
(118122 - Quantum Mechanics 3 and 118129 - Statistical Mechanics 2 and 118130 - Introduction to General Relativity)