COSMOLOGIA FÍSICA 2024


LECTURE NOTES 

Introduction
00a: A physical model for the Universe
00b: The Euclid mission 

Fundamental concepts 
01: The zeroth order Universe 
02: The metric and its degrees of freedom 
03: The cosmological fluid
04: The background evolution
05: The energy density budget
06: The density contrast random field
07: Statistical properties of the density contrast field
08: Parameterization of the density contrast field

Structure formation
09: Newtonian perturbed fluid equations
10: Dark matter linear clustering
11: Baryonic matter linear clustering
12: Non-linear clustering
13: Perturbations in general relativity

Cosmological observations
14: Supernova surveys
15: Gravitational lensing
16: Cosmological parameter estimation


HOMEWORK

Hw1 (13 Mar)
Hw2 (27 Mar)
Hw3 (17 Apr)
Hw4 (15 May)
Hw5 (2 Jun)


PRESENTATIONS

Motivation: LCDM problems
List of topics