Astronomy 8873: Cosmology and Structure Formation
Spring 2024
Handouts
Course Syllabus
Some notes on metrics
Kolb \& Turner history of the universe (ask me for a copy)
Lecture notes
All notes are in pdf.
I. Observational Basis of the Standard Model
II. General Relativity
III. Homogeneous Cosmological Models: Geometry
(updated 2/5)
IV. Homogeneous Cosmological Models: Dynamics
(updated 2/12)
V. The Cosmic Microwave Background
VI. Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
VII. The Early Universe
(updated 3/4)
VIII. Linear Fluctuations
(updated 3/20)
IX. Large Scale Structure at Low Redshift
(updated 3/24)
X. Non-linear clustering, halos, and galaxies
(updated 4/4)
XI. CMB anisotropies
(updated 4/16)
XII. Inflation
XIII. Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Problem sets
Problem Set 1: Milne Cosmology
(Solution available on Carmen)
Problem Set 2: Cosmological Parameters and Their Evolution
Problem Set 3: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Problem Set 4: WIMP Dark Matter Freeze-out
Problem Set 5: Spherical Collapse
Problem Set 6: DESI and Cosmological Parameters
Auxiliary files for PS 6
DESI paper
cosmodist2.py
desi.tbl1
desi.tbl2
desi.tbl1.ratio
desi.tbl2.ratio
desi_chisq.py
External links
My 2015 lecture notes from ICTP cosmology school
Particle Data Group reviews
Paper on galaxies vs. subhalos (figure shown 4/10/24)
Introduction to galaxy-halo connection (4/10/24)
Wayne Hu's CMB web page (4/10/24)
Go to
David Weinberg's Home Page
Updated: 2024 April 21[
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