bonometto

Prof. Silvio Bonometto.

Content of the Lectures:

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The cosmic scales
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FRW metrics and Friedman eqs
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The sources of expansion
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Expansion laws and horizons
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Phase transitions & entropy evolution
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Dark Matter: why
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Dark Energy: why
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The LCDM model
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The Jeans scale. 
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Fluctuation evolution in the linear limit Non relativistic and relativistic
regimes The primordial spectrum Meszaros effect and the transfer function

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Post-linear fluctuation evolution
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Evolution of a spherical overdensity
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Density contrasts for clusters and galaxies The Press & Schecther approach

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The Zel'dovich approximation
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     Bibliography:

     P.J.E. Peebles - Principles of physical cosmology - Princeton U. Press (1993)

      P. Coles & F. Lucchin - Cosmology - J. Wiley & Sons (1995)

      S. Bonometto - Cosmologia and Cosmologie - Zanichelli SpA (2008) (in Italian)

Lecture notes in pdf [1] [2] [3] [4]