Large-scale structure and galaxy formation
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, academic year 2023-2024
Alessandro Sonnenfeld
Course info
Lectures: Fridays, 8:55 - 11:40, meeting room 506.
Office hours: Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30, room 518.
Grading: Homework 20% Presentation 30% Final exam 50%.
Suggested textbooks:
- Modern Cosmology (2nd edition); Scott Dodelson and Fabian Schmidt.
- Galaxy Formation and Evolution; Houjun Mo, Frank van den Bosch and Simon White.
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Syllabus
This course covers the history of inhomogeneities in the Universe, from primordial perturbations to the formation of galaxies. The goal of the course is to develop an understanding of what physical processes are responsible for the growth of structure, and to build intuition for what aspects of cosmic history are different tracers of the large-scale structure sensitive to.
- The smooth Universe evolution
- Evolution of perturbations
- The matter power spectrum
- Cosmic microwave background fluctuations
- Baryon acoustic oscillations
- Galaxy clustering
- Redshift space distortions
- Weak gravitational lensing
- The halo model
- Gaseous halos
Homework
Homework 1 (due 2023/9/22)
Homework 2 (due 2023/10/08)
Homework 3 (due 2023/10/13)
Homework 4 (due 2023/10/20)
Homework 5 (due 2023/10/27)
Homework 6 (due 2023/11/03)
Homework 7 (due 2023/11/10)
Homework 8 (due 2023/11/17)
No homework on Week 9.
Homework 10 (due 2023/12/01)
Homework 11 (due 2023/12/08)
Homework 12 (due 2023/12/15)
Homework 13 (due 2023/12/22)
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