course | dates | credits |
Large Scale Structure | Mar 4 - Mar 21 | 3 |
teachers | schedule | term |
Emiliano Sefusatti | Mon-Thu, 14:00 - 15:30 | 0 |
Program:
- Elements of homogeneous cosmology
- Gravitational instability
- Linear Eulerian perturbation theory
- Nonlinear Eulerian perturbation theory
- Lagrangian perturbation theory (*)
- Correlation functions
- Spherical Collapse, DM Halos and the Halo Model
- Galaxy bias
- Peculiar Velocities and Redshift Space Distortions
- Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations
- Errors
Prerequisites:
- General Relativity,
- Cosmological Perturbation Theory
Books:
- Bernardeau et al., “Large-scale structure of the Universe and cosmological perturbation theory”, Physics Reports 367 (2002) [mainly]
- Peebles, “The large-scale structure of the Universe”, Princeton University Press (1980) [some parts]
- Padmanabhan, “Structure formation in the Universe”, Cambridge University Press (1993) [spherical collapse]
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