ASTRO 430
Physical Cosmology
Winter 2020 · Cosmology
Topics
- Cosmological observations
- Spacetime dynamics
- Matter content and expansion
- Accelerating universe
- Thermal history and nucleosynthesis
- Cosmic microwave background
- Inflation
- Structure formation and CMB anisotropy
Readings
- Barbara Ryden. Introduction to Cosmology, 2nd edition, 2017 preferred.
- M. P. Hobson, G. Efstathiou and A. N. Lasenby. General Relativity. Cambridge University Press, 2006; chapters 14–15, perhaps 16–17.
- John Peacock. Cosmological Physics, 1999.
- A. Liddle and D. Lyth. Cosmological Inflation and Large-Scale Structure, 2000.
- P. J. E. Peebles. Principles of Physical Cosmology, 1993.
- Steven Weinberg. The First Three Minutes, 1979.