When: Spring 2009, TR 9:35-10:50am
Where: 6638 Stevenson
Textbook: Assigned readings
| Other helpful books: | "Structure Formation in the Universe" by Padmanabhan (Cambridge). |
| "Introduction to Cosmology" by Ryden (Adison Wesley) | |
| "Modern Cosmology" by Dodelson (Academic Press) | |
| "Cosmological Physics" by Peacock (Cambridge) |
Syllabus and Course Info: syllabus
Preprint Archive: http://arXiv.org/list/astro-ph/recent
Lecture Slides: Main slides, Cameron's xi(r) slides
Week 1: January 13-15
| Topics: | Galaxies, Stellar populations |
| Reading: |
Week 2: January 20-22
| Topics: | Distance indicators, Hubble law, Redshift distortions |
| Reading: | Freedman et al. (2001) |
Week 3: January 27-29
| Topics: | Galaxy 2-point statistics |
| Reading: | Zehavi et al. (2005) Sections 1, 2, and 3 |
Week 4: February 3-5
| Topics: | Galaxy 3-point statistics, Redshift surveys |
| Reading: |
Hamilton (1997) First ~10 pages
Strauss & Willick (1995) pages 18-28 and 45-52 |
| Assignment: |
Assignment #1 due Friday, February 13: Assignment 1
For the assignment, you will need these files: SDSS_Mr21_rspace.dat, SDSS_Mr20_rspace.dat, SDSS_random.dat, SDSS_Mr20_zspace.dat, DM.dat, DM_random.dat |
Week 5: February 10-12
| Topics: | Galaxy samples, K-corrections, Evolution corrections, Selection functions, Luminosity functions, Photometric redshifts |
| Reading: |
Week 6: February 17-19
| Topics: | Galaxy morphology, Galaxy environments |
| Reading: | Blanton et al. (2005) |
Week 7: February 24-26
| Topics: | Galaxy environments, Galaxy groups and clusters |
| Reading: | Frieman et al. (2008) |
| Assignment: | Read the above paper and think about what method of constraining Dark Energy you want to study and present in your final project. The four methods are: Supernovae, Clusters, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Weak Lensing |
Week 8: March 10-12
| Topics: | Galaxy clusters, Power spectra, Cosmological parameters |
| Reading: | |
Week 9: March 17-19
| Topics: | The Friedman equation, Cosmological parameters, Distance measures |
| Reading: | Hogg (2000) |
Week 10: March 24-26
| Topics: | Distance measures, Linear evolution of the density field |
| Reading: | Hogg (2000) |
| Assignment: | Assignment #2 due Friday, April 3: Assignment 2 |
Week 11: March 31-April 2
| Topics: | Nonlinear evolution: the spherical collapse model and N-body simulations |
| Reading: | |
Week 12: April 7-9
| Topics: | Dark matter halos and galaxy formation |
| Reading: | Jenkins et al. (2001) |
Week 13: April 14-16
| Topics: | Modeling galaxy clustering and the halo model |
| Reading: |
Berlind & Weinberg (2001)
Zehavi et al. (2005) Sections 4 and 5 |
Week 14: April 20-21
| Topics: | Cosmological probes of dark energy |
| Final presentation: | Final presentations and writeups due this week: Final presentation |
| Monday, April 20: | |
| BAO: | Doug & Qingqing |
| Supernovae: | Jen & Matt |
| Tuesday, April 21: | |
| Clusters: | Deatrick & Felipe |
| Weak Lensing: | Vladimir |
| Reading: |
Review:
Frieman et al. (2008)
BAO: Seo & Eisenstein (2003) Eisenstein et al. (2005) Supernovae: Riess et al. (1998) Wood-Vasey et al. (2007) Clusters: Haiman et al. (2001) Vikhlinin et al. (2009) Weak Lensing: Munshi et al. (2008) Benjamin et al. (2007) |